Mod_ext_filter is an Apache 2.0 module that pipes about to be served content through an external filter before sending it to the client. The filter can be any command line program that reads from standin and writes to standout.
This is the first time it has been an advantage for me to be running Apache 2 instead of 1.3 (where this module is not available.) I need to serve downsampled mp3s, and I don't have the room to cache them, so I'm going to try to do it on the fly using mod_ext_filter to send them through LAME. I think I can do this in better than real time, but I'm not totally sure. I might theoretically need up to 10 simultaneous downsamplings (re-encodings) at once. We'll see if the server is up to it.
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This is the first time it has been an advantage for me to be running Apache 2 instead of 1.3 (where this module is not available.) I need to serve downsampled mp3s, and I don't have the room to cache them, so I'm going to try to do it on the fly using mod_ext_filter to send them through LAME. I think I can do this in better than real time, but I'm not totally sure. I might theoretically need up to 10 simultaneous downsamplings (re-encodings) at once. We'll see if the server is up to it.
- jim 8-03-2006 1:11 am