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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +A python3-based HTTP 1.1 server for ingesting and serving DASH media streams. + +Alpha quality, use at your own risk. + +To run, simply execute the shipped dash_server.py file with a Python 3 +interpreter. No dependencies beyond the standard library are neded. The +executable takes on mandatory parameter, which is the path to the directory to +which the DASH media files shall be written. + +The server processes incoming HTTP GET, PUT and POST requests. PUT and POST are +treated identically - request body is written into a file inside the media +directory, with the name equal to decoded request target. For requests using +chunked transfer encoding, the body shall also be temporarily cached in memory +and will be available to incoming GET requests while it is being received. +To GET requests the server will serve either the accordingly-named file from the +media directory or the aforementioned cache entry. + +The server is written to be as simple as possible and is intended to be deployed +as a backend behind a gateway HTTP server such as nginx (sample config is +provided in nginx_config). The gateway would typically handle client +authentication, serving the non-DASH and finalized DASH media files. |