What Is Mod-H264-Streaming ?

The H264 Streaming Module is a plugin for your existing Apache/Lighttpd/Nginx webserver. Its features are as follows:

Timeshifting seek  Enable your viewers to immediately jump to any part of the video regardless of the length of the video or whether it has all been downloaded yet.

Virtual video clips also enables possibilities for Adaptive Streaming.
An easy way for making previews available, say for example when you want to differentiate between registered and unregistered users. Here's a little tutorial for the different web servers on url rewriting and virtual video clips.

Network efficiency  The next version will feature 'bandwidth shaping' allowing you to stream videos and only use the bandwidth required to view the video over the network.
Encoding

If you are already using the widely adopted MPEG4/H264 industry standard, there is no need to re-encode your MP4 videos, you can use your existing video files.

Download Old Lighttpd 1.4.18 with mod h264 streaming

#cd root
#wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/lighttpd-1.4.18_mod_h264_streaming-2....
#tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.4.18_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.9.tar.gz

Download New Lighttpd 1.4.26

#cd /root
#wget http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/releases-1.4.x/lighttpd-1.4.26.tar.gz
#tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.4.26.tar.gz

Note : new Lighttpd 1.4.26 didn't have mod h264 streaming modules so we need to take the modules from lighttpd 1.4.18

Copy the module's files from the 1.4.18 source distribution to your source distribution (lighttpd-1.4.x).

#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mod_h264_streaming.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mod_streaming_export.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/moov.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/moov.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_io.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_io.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_reader.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_reader.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_writer.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_writer.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_process.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/mp4_process.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/output_bucket.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/output_bucket.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/output_mp4.c lighttpd-1.4.26/src/
#cp lighttpd-1.4.18/src/output_mp4.h lighttpd-1.4.26/src/

Edit Makefile.am

#vi lighttpd-1.4.26/src/Makefile.am

### (Add few lines below after 'mod_flv_streaming')
lib_LTLIBRARIES += mod_h264_streaming.la
mod_h264_streaming_la_SOURCES = mod_h264_streaming.c \
                                mod_streaming_export.h \
                                moov.c moov.h \
                                mp4_io.c mp4_io.h \
                                mp4_reader.c mp4_reader.h \
                                mp4_writer.c mp4_writer.h \
                                mp4_process.c mp4_process.h \
                                output_bucket.c output_bucket.h \
                                output_mp4.c output_mp4.h
mod_h264_streaming_la_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -DBUILDING_H264_STREAMING
mod_h264_streaming_la_LDFLAGS = -module -export-dynamic -avoid-version -no-undefined
mod_h264_streaming_la_LIBADD = $(common_libadd)

Kill all process lighttpd

#killall -9 lighttpd

Recompiling lighttpd 1.4.26

#cd lighttpd-1.4.26
#./autogen.sh
#./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
#make && make install

Backup & Edit lighttpd.conf

#vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
# change on server.modules
#
server.modules = (
...
...
"mod_expire",
"mod_secdownload",
"mod_h264_streaming",
)
#
# add this h264 streaming extensions
h264-streaming.extensions = ( ".mp4", ".flv" )

Starting Up Lighttpd Daemon

#/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf &

Testing open a mp4 streaming files

#cd /home/domains/wowtutorial.org/htdocs/
#wget http://h264.code-shop.com:83/iphone.mp4

Try to access iphone.mp4 files from browser like example below :

http://wowtutorial.org/iphone.mp4

We also can testing out from console like below

#wget -S "http://wowtutorial.org/iphone.mp4"
--2010-07-20 21:30:10--  http://wowtutorial.org/iphone.mp4
Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.0 200 OK
  X-Mod-H264-Streaming: version=2.2.9
  Content-Type: video/mp4
  ETag: "164781047"
  Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:56:30 GMT
  Content-Length: 101322001
  Connection: close
  Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:30:22 GMT
  Server: lighttpd/1.4.26
Length: 101322001 (97M) [video/mp4]

Note :
- If you can see your browser playing the iphone.mp4 files it's mean you are successfully configure h264 streaming with lighttpd
- Sometime your browser do not support mp4 so it will ask you to download your iphone.mp4 file and you can just play the file with quicktime / winamp

If you have a depencency problem when you recompiling h264 module, You need to install dependency into your server :

Example with opensuse :
#zypper in fam fam-devel libgio-fam pkg-config autoconf