I no longer have much time to work on this project and for the most part it is deprecated now that both ffmpeg and libav have direct support for segmenting and creating m3u files. Quite happy to point this elsewhere if someone else would like to take over the project.

m3u8-segmenter is an Apple HTTP Live Segmenter. It takes an MPEG-TS stream from a tool like ffmpeg and breaks it up into multiple ts-segments suitable for HTTP Live streaming from devices like iPhones. It also creates the M3U8 stream descriptor which is required for this type of stream.

It was originally written by Chase Douglas and is now maintained by John Ferlito.

##Installing

TO install from source you will need to make sure you have the libav/ffmpeg libraries installed. On Ubuntu/Debian you would run

apt-get install libavformat-dev

You can then build and install m3u8-segmenter by running

aclocal
automake -ac
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install

Some example command lines

ffmpeg -loglevel quiet  -i big_buck_bunny.ogv -f mpegts - | \
  m3u8-segmenter -i - -d 10 -p tmp/big_buck_bunny -m tmp/big_buck.m3u8 -u http://inodes.org/bigbuck/

ffmpeg -er 4 -i input.mp3 -f mpegts -acodec libmp3lame -ar 22050 -ab 32k -vn - | \
  m3u8-segmenter -i - -d 10 -p outputdir/prefix -m outputdir/output.m3u8 -u http://domain.com/

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2011 John Ferlito. See COPYING for details.