I was playing around and did something similar with video encoding. The server code starts a running ffmpeg process, and then the handler code just looks like t

I was playing around and did something similar with video encoding. The server code starts a running ffmpeg process, and then the handler code just looks like this: server = http.createServer(function(request, response) { request.pipe(ffmpeg.process.stdin); ffmpeg.process.stdout.pipe(response); }); What a nice interface! The end result is that you can do weird stuff like: $ curl -T my_video.mp4 http://localhost:9599 | mplayer