HLS VOD to MPEG-TS UDP Multicast Stream

This Rust-based client reads from an HLS M3U8 playlist and rebroadcasts it as MPEG-TS over UDP. It is based off the HLS produced by https://github.com/groovybits/mpegts_to_s3.git and is intended to be used as a relay for replaying that content.

Features

• Read from HLS M3U8 playlists
• Rebroadcast as MPEG-TS over UDP

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable version)
• Cargo (Rust package manager)

Installation

1. Build the project:

   cargo build --release
   

Container Deployment

1. Build the container image:

   # The Dockerfile.rebroadcast and docker-compose.yaml are in the mpegts_to_s3 directory ../ below this one
   cd ../
   podman-compose up --build
   

Usage outside of a container

1. Run the client with the M3U8 URL and UDP address:

   ./target/release/hls-to-udp -u <M3U8_URL> -o <UDP_ADDRESS>
   

   Example:

   ./target/release/hls-to-udp -u http://example.com/playlist.m3u8 -o 239.0.0.1:1234 -p 100
   

Author: wizard@groovy.org Date: January 27, 2025