Trick Play Service

This is a REST API Service to generate the trick play assets for an HLS master.m3u8.

Assumptions:

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• There is a proper HLS manifest 'master.m3u8' availble locally or via the web.
• There is at least 1 video stream to extract thumbnails from.
• The stream is not encrypted.

Instructions:

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• Install FFMPEG.
• Create an .env file.
  

  cat env_sample > .env
  

• Update the local .env file with the needed info.
  

  vi .env
  

• Run this flask based trick play service.
• Can import the postman collection from here.

System Info:

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• Created for and tested on Mac OS.
• Tested with Python 3.9.
  
  

Reference:

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The trick play module was developed based on specs defined by Roku for HLS streams.

https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/media-playback/trick-mode/hls-and-dash.md

See "HLS considerations" section.

Also notice their code samples: https://github.com/rokudev/samples/tree/master/media/TrickPlayThumbnailsHLS