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Challenge Overview

In this challenge we'd like to extend the NGINX module we built in the previous challenge.

The module utilizes the VideoLAN libVLC library to transcode a source stream to a specified output format through VLC.

The current service gives back "application/octet-stream" for the http header content type. Fix the content-type for the HLS from "application/octet-stream" to "application/x-mpegurl".
Add in parameters to pass to the libVLC library. We'd like this to be dynamic than fixed params if possible, for example a single param called "options" that we can just pass through or parse and interpret for libVLC when calling it.
- options to support are: venc, vcodec, vb, scale, fps, hurry_up, deinterlace, width, height, maxwidth, maxheight, filters, aenc, acodec, ab, alang, channels, samplerate, audio_sync, afilters
- see this link for explanation of the options
Add in support for pseudo-HLS (direct "Transport Stream" delivery)
- the path for retireving this should be "/pseudo-hls"
- the header content-type is "video/mp2t"
- Please note it should just return the transport stream, the TS file, directly to the calling client instead of returning the m3u8 file. Calling to the /pseudo-hls path would set that option to return just the transport stream
Make sure the updated code still works on both Ubuntu and Heroku
Deploy a working instance on Heroku's Cedar-14 stack. This is the equivalent of Ubuntu 14.04

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 the 30047606-transcoderModule2 branch
Add wendell and lazybaer as members of your forked repository.

Your code changes must be pushed to your private gitlab repo
Submit a zipped version of your repo to Online Review
Make sure your submission includes a clear guide to deploy and test / verify your submission
Once picked as the winner and done with fixes, you're expected to submit a merge request to the specified branch

For each member, the final submission should be uploaded via the challenge detail page on topcoder.com.