Http Live Streaming with the Apache web server

Question

Is it possible to do HLS with an Apache web server? Would it be enough to "put here the playlist with data chunks"? Is it that simple? Or is there some module, which can be used for that purpose?

Thanks a lot for the reply

Answer 1

Yes, it's sufficient to merely have the m3u8 and segmented ts files available. The benefit of HLS is that it is bog simple HTTP.

It's possible that you'll have to setup the mime types in Apache, but it's probably correct by default.

Answer 2

There are surely apache2 modules for doing that. My personal choice for streaming audio and video and especially Video-On-Demand however is vlc. Great funcionality for recoding, adopting your output to what ever client wants to view it, etc. etc. Maybe worth a look.