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A micro service that generates the trick play assets for an HLS video.

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Trick Play Service

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

Assumptions:

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:

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:

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

Reference:

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