Node-Media-Server VS shaka-packager

For in-house hosting, a project like https://github.com/ossrs/srs or https://github.com/illuspas/Node-Media-Server may meet your needs. Ultimately though, you should be able to build whatever you need from scratch using an Nginx server with the RTMP module and an ffmpeg process

I am currently building a home server and want to create my own audio book server and mobile application. On the mobile site I will use react native with react-native-track-player. The TrackPlayer supports DASH, HLS or SmoothStreaming. Now I am struggling to build a server and providing one of these formats. When I search for a solution there are many recommendations to create a stream like const stream = fs.createReadStream(filePath); and pipe it like stream.pipe(res);. This is working in the browser but seems not to be compatible with the TrackPlayer. When looking for solutions to create a stream based on DASH, HLS or SmoothStreaming I just find some complex solutions like the Node-Media-Server which seems a bit overkill for what I am trying to do. So my question is, do you know a simpler solution to send an mp3 file through an express endpoint in DASH, HLS or SmoothStreaming format? Or do you have any recommendations where I can have a look?

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Shaka Player is often used in conjunction with Shaka Packager on the back end to add content protection, text streaming, break the media file into segments for streaming and create a manifest file with metadata for DASH or create respective packaging for HLS.

if the node media server is too much just host the static files. What you might need to do is package the mp4 or webm files into a streaming format. Try https://github.com/shaka-project/shaka-packager

Looks like there's more info on this shaka-packager issue for fairplay support which notes the things you need to figure out in order to decrypt the different streams: https://github.com/google/shaka-packager/issues/258