kqyang
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4 years ago @hariszukanovic Do you want to allow the player to seek back, e.g. by more than a day? If not, you can use --time_shift_buffer_depth to limit the buffer depth and Shaka Packager can remove old segments automatically.
As for the feature request itself, it can work for HLS as HLS playlists do not have the concept of segment template and packaging code can replace the time indicator in the template and put it in the playlist.
For Dash as well?
We will need this to be supported by DASH specification which is not right now. We could go with a similar approach as HLS, but that is very inefficient.
If you don't really need these old segments to be seekable by players, and you still want to keep these segments, another option would be to use an external "cron" script to move and rename files.
hariszukanovic
Issue and steps to reproduce the problem
When packaging live stream continuously I get a large number of files in the same folder. I would like to avoid this for better file system performance.
What is the expected result?
I would like to create a subfolder structure based on time through "segment template formatting" during the packaging process by using some datetime variable. For example: segment_template=h264_360p/DATE/HOUR_OF_THE_DAY/$Number$.m4s
ffmpeg has a similar feature that I have used successfully in their muxers "ssegment" and "hls" where strftime is applied on the filepath before it is actually used in the packaging process... https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#segment_002c-stream_005fsegment_002c-ssegment https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#Options-6
Would something like that work for shaka packager? For Dash as well?