[LRUG] Rails: using send_file to send video to the browser

[javier ramirez]

Hi,

I'm assuming you are using X-SendFile to send the file?

If so, you should be able to install the h264 module on Nginx/Apache and 
the web server should take care of the pseudo streaming

Also, this kind of streaming works better when the file is properly 
encoded[2]

Cheers,

j

[1] http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki
[2] https://sixohthree.com/streaming-mp4-with-nginx

On 05/08/15 14:12, Tom Armitage wrote:
> I'm working on a project that displays HTML5 video in the browser, and 
> access to those videos is controlled.
>
> Previously, I was using an expiring S3 URL; now I'm hosting the video 
> myself, attached via Paperclip. The uploads directory is outside the 
> /public directory of the Rails app; there's a URL for the video that, 
> when a user hits it, checks if they're authorised to view it, and if 
> so, uses send_file to send it to them.
>
> This no longer works very well now that I'm using send_file - I 
> /think/ this comes down to the fact the browser requests video with 
> Range headers, getting it in chunks, and my poor back-end clearly 
> isn't doing something sophisticiated enough.
>
> My initial thoughts were:
>
> * something like 
> [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6759426/rails-media-file-stream-accept-byte-range-request-through-send-data-or-send-file], 
> which odes the chunking manually but is beginning to make me feel 
> stupid, and also feels fragile
> * is Puma the issue, and would a better web server for development work?
>
> I'm asking because whilst I think I've found the right track, some of 
> you might have had experience of this before.
>
> t.
>
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>
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