im trying to make a streaming service where i stream the content of a file (in this case a video) into a video element.
for this purpose i have downloaded and installed videogular and is now trying to set it up however im sure how to do it.
According to the documentation on videogular to load a video you would need a syntax like this:
sources: [
{src: $sce.trustAsResourceUrl(myMp4Resource), type: "video/mp4"}
]
Which is fine for when you want to load the content in without streaming.
But say for instance you have a node server running at port 8105 and the file you wish to collect had an id of 1 then the result might look something like this:
sources: [
{src: $sce.trustAsResourceUrl('http://localhost:8105/loadvideo/1'), type: "video/mp4"}
]
However in my attempt to do so it would just tell me that the resource is not an actual resource.
My question is how do you stream to a video content (preferably with videogular) and does anyone know of examples where people have made this possible?
Server side code
Okay so my initial idea (and i know this is a change for the code above) was to create a route that took at path:
router.route('/retrieveFile')
.post(function (request, response) {
var path = '../' + request.body.data;
var file = fs.createReadStream(path);
file.pipe(response);
});
And then piped the output of the file.
Then use this to stream the file
If you have video files on your harddrive and you want to serve them all with their filenames, you should just use Express Static to serve them just like any other resource
You can add a path prefix '/videos' to differentiate them from regular resources.
app.use('/videos', express.static('videos'));
Then a video file ./videos/myvid.mp4 would be available as http://localhost:8000/videos/myvid.mp4