Does SRS support play back?

[cococonuts]

Does SRS support play back? I would have a video server support non realtime video.

[grootgordon]

AFAIK, SRS doesn't directly support playback. In order to achieve playback functionality, we need to develop two external program for its implementation.

I have completed the following steps, hope they can be helpful to you:

1. Utilize the SRS on_hls callback to notify a transmitter program about new HLS segments.
2. The transmitter program can then save the HLS TS index to Redis (or MySQL) and upload the local TS file to remote S3 server, such as: MinIO, Ceph, or Public Cloud Storage Server.
3. The consumer program serves as an HTTP backend, handling client player's HTTP playback requests. For example, it can serve HTTP requests like: http://domain/app/stream.m3u8?startTime=xxx&endTime=xxx. The consumer program should fetch the TS index and generate a M3U8 playlist for the client.

[winlinvip]

Good job! This is the optimal solution for implementing playback.

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