What's Up with ReactPHP When I first heard of a few years ago, it looked very promising. Providing timers, asynchronous processing, streams, and sockets, all within PHP. ReactPHP However, in recent years, there seems to be stagnation. While you see commits, you seldom see any publication. is an attempt to make ReactPHP into a micro framework, but I see little mention of it. Framework X Overall, whenever I tried using ReactPHP, I found that it is better to use and its rich ecosystem. Laravel Streaming with ReactPHP was a nice approach to building a streaming server with ReactPHP, which I could not see how to do as simple in Laravel. Building Video Streaming Server with ReactPHP A recent article revived the topic and showed how you integrate with . Streaming ReactPHP in ReactJS React This got me thinking about how far you can go with ReactPHP in terms of streaming. A Media Server Design A media server has three components: Streaming of media files Web interface to select files, login users, and control playback. A backend to manage files and users While ReactPHP is very good for the streaming part, web application programming with ReactPHP is not common and lacks an ecosystem of build tools and libraries. This is especially apparent if you want to build a dynamic modern interface, as you do nowadays with a Single Page Application (SPA). So it would seem natural to wrap the ReactPHP in a Laravel application. Laravel is well suited for managing files, including file upload, and has built-in user management. The web interface will be built by either some SPA framework such as React or , or alternatively, with . Vue Laravel Livewire AlpineJS Uploading and Storing Video Files associates media, such as video files, to your models. Laravel Media Library The library integrates FFMpeg through the so that you can create thumbnails of videos. Moreover, using PHP-FFMPEG, you can do all common transcoding of videos. PHP-FFMPEG Validating Video Files Standard Laravel validation rules handle video file size and type. However, a media server needs a more targeted validation of videos, such as duration, codec, and dimensions. supplies these extra validations based on FFMpeg. Laravel Audio & Video Validator Possibly, we would need to fork and extend their code to support additional validations, such as frame rate and bitrate. Also published . here

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