Stream an MP4 playlist perpetually (Edit: looking for HTML5 playlist solution now)

Chris Lanini

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Hello,

So, I am currently working on how to set up multiple streams, that will be linked through a website. they will play all the time, kind of like a television station. There will be a "Stream 1" link, and when clicked, the user will then see the video as it is playing (even if it's 10 minutes in and such).

This would have been somewhat easy, I was working with VLC media player, and made a lot of progress with that, until I found that VLC cannot transcode MP4's to stream through http.

I have tried a bunch of other open source software (it would be running on Ubuntu 14.04), but I am kind of lost at this point. I've put quite a few hours into it with little to no results.

So, this is what I am asking: How would I go about getting this to work? I'm sure that there is a reasonable answer on how to stream in this manner, I just cannot for the life of me find it.

Thank you for any help, it is greatly appreciated.
 

Chris Lanini

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Sep 22, 2014
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So, I have switched to the creation of an HTML5 playlist that is run using javascript, and that has worked well.

The issue is this: I need it to be playing all the time. So that when a user accesses it, it is already in progress, kind of like a television station.

Is there any realistic way of doing this?