Laravel HLS Converter

A Laravel package for converting videos to HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) format via the HLS Converter microservice.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Laravel 10 or 11
• PHP zip extension (for extraction features)

Installation

composer require zhitoo/laravel-hls-converter

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=hls-converter-config

Configuration

Add the following to your .env:

HLS_CONVERTER_BASE_URL=https://hls.yourdomain.com
HLS_CONVERTER_API_KEY=your-secret-api-key
HLS_CONVERTER_TIMEOUT=30
HLS_CONVERTER_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT=120

# Optional: temp directory for ZIP download/extract (default: storage/app/hls-temp)
HLS_CONVERTER_TEMP_PATH=/tmp/hls-temp

Usage

Submit a conversion job

use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\Facades\HlsConverter;

$taskId = HlsConverter::convert(
    videoUrl: 'https://example.com/video.mp4',
    resolutions: [1080, 720, 480],   // omit for original quality only
    chunkDuration: 10,
    audioChannels: 2,
);

Check status

$status = HlsConverter::status($taskId);

echo $status->status;    // Pending | Processing | Completed | Failed
echo $status->progress;  // 0–100

if ($status->isCompleted()) {
    echo $status->masterPlaylist; // "master.m3u8"
    foreach ($status->qualities as $q) {
        echo $q['label'] . ' → ' . $q['playlist'];
        // 720p → 720p/output.m3u8
    }
}

Download ZIP

// Save to an explicit path
HlsConverter::downloadToFile($taskId, storage_path("hls/{$taskId}.zip"));

// Or get a PSR-7 stream
$stream = HlsConverter::download($taskId);
file_put_contents(storage_path("hls/{$taskId}.zip"), $stream);

Extract ZIP to a local directory

Downloads the ZIP, extracts it, deletes the ZIP, and returns the list of extracted file paths.

$files = HlsConverter::extractTo($taskId, storage_path("hls/{$taskId}"));

// $files is an array of absolute paths:
// [
//   '/var/www/storage/app/hls/<taskId>/master.m3u8',
//   '/var/www/storage/app/hls/<taskId>/720p/output.m3u8',
//   '/var/www/storage/app/hls/<taskId>/720p/segment_000.ts',
//   ...
// ]

Transfer HLS files to a Laravel storage disk

Downloads the ZIP, extracts it, uploads every file to the chosen storage disk, and cleans up all temp files automatically.

// Transfer to a specific disk (local, s3, ftp, etc.)
$result = HlsConverter::transferToStorage(
    taskId: $taskId,
    storagePath: "videos/hls/{$taskId}",
    disk: 's3',
);

// Or use the default filesystem disk
$result = HlsConverter::transferToDefaultStorage(
    taskId: $taskId,
    storagePath: "videos/hls/{$taskId}",
);

echo $result->disk;                  // "s3"
echo $result->basePath;              // "videos/hls/<taskId>"
echo $result->masterPlaylistPath();  // "videos/hls/<taskId>/master.m3u8"

foreach ($result->files as $path) {
    echo Storage::disk($result->disk)->url($path);
}

// Get as array
$array = $result->toArray();
// [
//   'disk'            => 's3',
//   'base_path'       => 'videos/hls/<taskId>',
//   'master_playlist' => 'videos/hls/<taskId>/master.m3u8',
//   'files'           => [...],
// ]

Polling until done then transferring

use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\Facades\HlsConverter;
use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\Exceptions\HlsConverterException;

$taskId = HlsConverter::convert('https://example.com/video.mp4', [720, 480]);

do {
    sleep(5);
    $status = HlsConverter::status($taskId);
} while ($status->isPending() || $status->isProcessing());

if ($status->isFailed()) {
    $log = HlsConverter::logs($taskId);
    throw new \RuntimeException("Conversion failed.\n{$log}");
}

$result = HlsConverter::transferToStorage($taskId, "videos/hls/{$taskId}", 's3');

Dependency injection

use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\HlsConverter;
use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\DTOs\TransferResult;

class VideoService
{
    public function __construct(private HlsConverter $hls) {}

    public function process(string $url, string $taskId): TransferResult
    {
        return $this->hls->transferToStorage($taskId, "hls/{$taskId}", 's3');
    }
}

Exception Handling

All methods throw Zhitoo\HlsConverter\Exceptions\HlsConverterException on failure.

use Zhitoo\HlsConverter\Exceptions\HlsConverterException;

try {
    $result = HlsConverter::transferToStorage($taskId, 'videos/hls', 's3');
} catch (HlsConverterException $e) {
    logger()->error('HLS transfer failed', ['error' => $e->getMessage()]);
}

API Reference

TaskStatus DTO

Helper methods: isPending(), isProcessing(), isCompleted(), isFailed()

TransferResult DTO

Methods: masterPlaylistPath() — full path including basePath, toArray()

License

MIT