The stream manager should help prevent zombie processes and can later be
used for stopping video streams if the user exits the video before
finishing for example.
Instead of waiting for an entire video to stream, we spawn a child
ffmpeg process to start generating the HLS playlist, and once it creates
the first part of the playlist we return the response so the client can
start streaming almost immediately. HTTP Live streaming can handle
playlist updates after the initial playlist is created, although I don't
think the user can skip to the end and skip streaming parts of the
video.
I might be able to streamline the requests to cut down on the endpoints.
This also will likely take some time if the file is large and could time
out, that may be a concern for another day.
