import secrets from time import sleep from flask import Flask, request from subprocess import Popen, STDOUT, PIPE SESSIONS = dict() app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/open') def open_stream(): url = "http://" + request.args['host'] + ':' + request.args.get('port', '4040') + '/stream' id = secrets.token_hex(16) SESSIONS[id] = { 'url': url, 'id': id, 'proc': Popen(['vlc', url]) } return id @app.route('/stop/') def stream_stop(id): if id in SESSIONS: SESSIONS[id]['proc'].terminate() return "true" return "false" def cleanup_thread(): while True: dead_sessions = [] for session in SESSIONS.values(): if session['proc'].poll() != None: # thread has terminated dead_sessions.append(session['id']) for id in dead_sessions: url = SESSIONS[id]['url'] print(f"Removing dead session {id} for url {url}") del SESSIONS[id] sleep(10) t = Thread(target=cleanup_thread) t.start() app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=5005)