new ( video_params ) respond_to do | format | if. new end # GET /videos/1/edit def edit end # POST /videos or /videos.json def create = Video. all end # GET /videos/1 or /videos/1.json def show end # GET /videos/new def new = Video. To start create a folder with your desired project name, ie:Ĭlass VideosController < ApplicationController before_action :set_video, only: %i # GET /videos or /videos.json def index = Video.

Instead of wasting time troubleshooting that, I decided this was a good opportunity to dockerize my app. Originally, I was developing this project on MacOS, but ran into permissions issues with the streamio-ffmpeg gem accessing the system installed version of FFMPEG. The instructions I'll be providing for this setup run the app inside a docker container.

The below tutorial for building a rails VOD platform is by no means production ready, but it should serve as a good jumping off point for anyone who's looking to build out a more fully-featured rails video service.įor a sample mp4 video, I'm using this 1080p first 30s version of the famous blender made video, big buck bunny HLS files are also segmented by default, which provides the benefit of reducing the bandwidth required to start playing video. Instead, the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), format developed by Apple, provides a way for video to sent to the client in an adaptive format that allows quality to be automatically adjusted depending on the client's internet connection. Sure, there's modern tricks to fragment mp4 files to give the illusion of streaming, but this solution hardly holds up in low bandwidth network settings, and mobile support can be hit or miss. For one, mp4 files have no way to truly be streamed. While this approach can work in limited instances, it has some serious drawbacks. mp4, save the video to storage, play back video as mp4'. I was able to find numerous tutorials showing how to make Youtube clones in rails, but nearly every tutorial went along the lines of 'upload video as.

Recently, I started working on a project where I wanted to allow users to upload videos, then allow them and other users to playback those videos. If you want the TL DR version, here's the github link Regular contributor to forum discussions. He has written around 7 posts here and has been a It covers aĭetails targetting ruby, rails, ffmpeg, hls and various other things.Īdam Katora is a tech enthusiast and creative writer and has been writing

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