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f4fhds: NGINX module for Adobe f4f format

Debian/Ubuntu installation

These docs apply to the APT package nginx-module-f4fhds provided by the GetPageSpeed Extras repository.

  1. Configure the APT repository as described in APT repository setup.
  2. Install the module:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx-module-f4fhds
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Nginx module for Adobe f4f format.

This module implements handling of HTTP Dynamic Streaming requests in the “/videoSeg1-Frag1” form — extracting the needed fragment from the videoSeg1.f4f file using the videoSeg1.f4x index file. This module is an alternative to the Adobe’s f4f module (HTTP Origin Module) for Apache.

It is open-source equivalent for commercial ngx_http_f4f_module module.

Synopsis

location /video/ {
    f4fhds;
    ...
}

Limitations

  • The assumption is that all files contain a single (first) segment, e.g. Seg1
  • The files should reside in a local non-networked filesystem, due to use of mmap(2).