Download a .mp4 file from my web server to ESP32 SD Card

[Harshad P]

Hello All,

I am new to ESP-IDF and am trying to do a project to download a video (.mp4) from server and then stream it on local host.
So the project is mainly divided into 2 parts,
First, I am planning to download few videos ( https://www.pexels.com/video/1812902/download/ and few others similarly) into SD card
Second, Stream these videos through local server. (For streaming I got few examples through ESP32-CAM projects )

So initially when Internet is available it downloads all videos and on a command through some means (Maybe App or BLE) It starts it's own server and presents the videos

If any example for the first problem is available please do share.

Regards,

[ESP_Minatel]

Hi,

We have an example but not exactly what you want. Maybe you can change this project to get what you need.

Hope it helps you: file_serving

[Harshad P]

Thanks for the reply, I actually went through the code previously and couldn't understand much of it,

I understand ESP32 itself acts as a server with it's own html page and stuff and for my application I actually don't need that. So basically I will never start the server itself and also change the error check functions accordingly.

As far as my understanding (Sorry if I am wrong) somewhere in the code there should be an input to esp32 (Something like

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url=localhost;

or similar) and if localhost/upload event occurs then it fetches the data and stores it in SD card. But I don't find it anywhere.

Regards,
And sorry if I am wrong since I am a beginner trying to do a college project.

[JVKran]

Hi there!

I'm in the same boat, but also need to upload files. After quite some time, I managed to get file uploads with Multi-Part POST-Requests to work but now that I'm looking into downloading files, I'm getting stuck again.

I personally think two examples of these functionalities would be really usefull as examples as they're quite commonly required functionalities. Anyway, I'll keep puzzling and let future searches know when I found a method.

Kind regards,

A puzzling Jochem