Windshield

Real-Time Transcoder & Streaming Server

USING

Windshield runs on tcp port 40. Open localhost.rocks:40 to view your running instance of windshield.

SECURITY

Windshield does not provide any security mechanisms to secure the data channel during video streams. In order to have a secured data channel. You could proxy the service or fork the windshield repo from github and establish your own security measures.

Introduction

Windshield provides a real-time "Virtual Windshield" for video encoding, transcoding, streaming, & piping. It runs as a tcp/ip server on port 40. Requests passed through Windshield output as an mp4 and stream in real-time (where available). Much like a real windshield that you can see through this software provides a "Virtual Windshield" that can consume source videos in real-time pending cpu resources.

Installing

npm install windshield -g

Running

windshield

Windshield is easy to start. Just globally install the Windshield package and run the command windshield to launch the server.

RUNNING FROM A FOLDER

windshield /path/to/your/videos

Windshield can also be used to quickly spin up broadcasting from a folder of videos by specifying the location in the command prompt.

USING

Windshield is used as a stand-alone application. Now that you have Windshield installed you can visit http://localhost.rocks/ .

Windshield has the following routes and features:

/videos/:filename

http://localhost.rocks:40/videos/test.avi

This will pass test.avi from the supplied videos folder via a tcp/ip octet-stream.

/transcode/:kbps/:filename/:outfile

http://localhost.rocks:40/transcode/700/test.avi/test.mp4

This will transcode test.avi and pipe it to test.mp4 in the background without sending any stream data through the browser.

/network/:url

http://localhost.rocks:40/network/http://somevideodomain.com/video.mp4

This will proxy and pipe the video from the remote location directly for streaming.

/livestream/:kbps/:url

http://localhost.rocks:40/livestream/1400/http://somevideodomain.com/video.mp4

This will proxy, transcode, & pipe the video from the remote location for real-time variable streaming.

/livestream/hd/:kbps/:url

http://localhost.rocks:40/livestream/hd/1400/http://somevideodomain.com/video.mp4

This is identical to livestream except more time will be taken to encode the stream for HD. This requires a faster cpu.

/live/:kbps/:filename

http://localhost.rocks:40/live/1400/test.avi

This will transcode test.avi and pipe it to test.mp4 for real-time variable streaming.

/live/hd/:kbps/:filename

http://localhost.rocks:40/live/hd/1400/test.avi

This is identical to live except more time will be taken to encode the stream for HD. This requires a faster cpu.

/stream/:filename

http://localhost.rocks:40/stream/test.avi

This will input pipe test.avi for direct output streaming with no transcoding.

CONTRIBUTING

We encourage forking. Feel free to fork & pull your new additions, or bug fixes.

LICENSE

MIT