Recently I’ve wanted to look into how video streaming of local content can be done with NodeJS and HTML5’s video tag. I’ve only found one example to base upon, here. This demo though didn’t really cut it for me, for one it grabbed the file and split it in the client Javascript and then appended it to the video. Ideally, this would be done server side. It also has another bug where the split file doesn’t append at a time offset, and overwrites the original buffer.
I’ve created a demo that addresses these issues by creating a server in NodeJS that scans a videos directory and transcodes and splits the videos on the fly with ffmpeg. And uses mse_webm_remuxer to fix the format of these files in some magical way to make them compatible with HTML5’s MediaSource.