Hercules C++ Fog App - Virtual File System expansion and updates

The Hercules Player is an application that allows customers to download videos to their computer or device for offline playback, along with streaming playback of videos for online playback.

The Hercules Fog project has stripped out some key portions of the Hercules Player application into a new test application for downloading videos from a server, modifying the manifest, and then playing back on various mobile and TV devices.

The current implementation is C++ and will run on:

• Windows
  Linux
  Mac

On some of the deployment devices where Fog is used, the file system is a strangely formatted XFS file system with extremely large blocks.  Because we want to use space efficiently, we have implemented a virtual file system to cram multiple files into a single block.  We need to expand this functionality with new features and support for persistent recordings and multiple concurrent recordings.

NOTE:  This is a very technical challenge and will require a fair bit of work in setup and testing.  It also is critically important to the app, so we can't have bugs or poorly implemented features.

Requirements:

The requirements are captured in this Gitlab ticket:

https://gitlab.com/hercules-fog/Fog-CLI/issues/193

Sample player

This site is what will be used by reviewers to test playback:

http://player.b1.app.cloud.comcast.net/ 

It is expected that reviewers will need to run Google Chrome with web security disabled to get around XSS / CORS issues when playing back from a Fog recorded URL. 
 

Submission

Your code must be submitted as a Git patch file against the "master" branch

https://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git/

Base your patch file against commit hash 8dadc60db0c505d2b4018a0f2e642862c3fdc0a4 .

Please make sure to test your patch before submission!

Final Submission Guidelines

Please see above