Mala Demo

This project demostrates how to use Mala, a PHP lib to transform your m3u8 files into a http live stream, with Symfony and Doctrine

Tutorial

To make a HTTP live stream, you should need some model:

• A Channel, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Model\ChannelInterface
• A Video, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Model\VideoInterface
• A Program, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Model\ProgramInterface
• The last thing, a ScheduledMediaSegment, which is already a class in Mala, represent a m3u8 media segment

In a Symfony project, those model would like to be entities(in the src/AppBundle/Entity)

And also, we need some manager to manipulate those models:

• EpgManager, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Manager\EpgManagerInterface, manages programs
• MediaSegmentsManager, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Manager\MediaSegmentManagerInterface
• VideoManager, which implements Chrisyue\Mala\Manager\VideoManagerInterface

They are located in src/AppBundle/Manager, except VideoManger, because VideoManager is only used to fetch videos, which is much like a EntityRepository in a typical Symfony + Doctrine project.

So VideoRepository implements the Chrisyue\Mala\Manager\VideoManagerInterface instead of VideoManager. It's located in src/AppBundle/Entity

You can check the source code of this project to see more details

You can try Mala using this demo

First of all, you should create the database and schema:

$ php app/console doctrine:database:create
$ php app/console doctrine:schema:create

then create a channel:

$ php app/console app:channel:create

which should create a channel. you should check the channel id in the database

after the channel is created, create some videos:

$ php app/console app:video:create <channel-id> <m3u8-url>

after the video is created, you can schedule epg of the channel with those videos in a specified period:

$ php app/console app:epg:schedule <channel-id> --starts-at='now' --ends-at='tomorrow'

starts-at and ends-at can be any phrase you can use in PHP strtotime function

then you can schedule the playlist:

$ php app/console app:playlist:schedule <channel-id> --starts-at='now' --ends-at='tomorrow'

start the server by

$ php app/console server:start

finally you can browse the HLS uri http://localhost:8000/<channel-id>.m3u8 to check if there are errors.

if no error raised you can use VLC or Quicktime or other players supporting HLS to see the HTTP live channel you've created!