Operation NGINX: Trancoder module

Overview:

In this challenge we'd like to build an NGINX module that utilizes the VideoLAN libVLClibrary.

This module should take in a source URL stream and transcode the source to a specified output format through VLC.

Requirements:

• take in a source URL via URL parameters
• output transcoded video
• target source stream type is MJPEG
• target output stream type is h.264 HLS
• deploy a working instance on Heroku's Cedar-14 stack

Versions & Environments

• NGINX Version: 1.5.7
• VLC version 2.1.5
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Deployable to Heroku Cedar-14 stack

Reading material:

• NGINX
• NGINX modules
• libVLC
• Using libVLC
• Heroku NGINX Buildpack

Final Submission Guidelines

SETUP:

• Send an email to lazybaer or wendell or post in the forums to request to be added to the Operation NGINX team on gitlab if you are not already a member
• Once added to the team, fork the repository, if you haven’t already, and work off of thetranscoderModule branch
• Add wendell and lazybaer as members of your forked repository.