angular $sce trustAsResourceUrl from node - angularjs

Question

im trying to make a streaming service where i stream the content of a file (in this case a video) into a video element.
for this purpose i have downloaded and installed videogular and is now trying to set it up however im sure how to do it.
According to the documentation on videogular to load a video you would need a syntax like this:
sources: [
{src: $sce.trustAsResourceUrl(myMp4Resource), type: "video/mp4"}
]
Which is fine for when you want to load the content in without streaming.
But say for instance you have a node server running at port 8105 and the file you wish to collect had an id of 1 then the result might look something like this:
sources: [
{src: $sce.trustAsResourceUrl('http://localhost:8105/loadvideo/1'), type: "video/mp4"}
]
However in my attempt to do so it would just tell me that the resource is not an actual resource.
My question is how do you stream to a video content (preferably with videogular) and does anyone know of examples where people have made this possible?
Server side code
Okay so my initial idea (and i know this is a change for the code above) was to create a route that took at path:
router.route('/retrieveFile')
.post(function (request, response) {
var path = '../' + request.body.data;
var file = fs.createReadStream(path);
file.pipe(response);
});
And then piped the output of the file.
Then use this to stream the file

Answer 1

If you have video files on your harddrive and you want to serve them all with their filenames, you should just use Express Static to serve them just like any other resource
You can add a path prefix '/videos' to differentiate them from regular resources.
app.use('/videos', express.static('videos'));
Then a video file ./videos/myvid.mp4 would be available as http://localhost:8000/videos/myvid.mp4

Answer 2

To have a file available as a file, you need to set the appropriate headers before piping
And to load the file you'd put this code in your router, and where you're using post, if you don't have a strong reason I'd just use get or all
You might also wanna be able to end the transmission if client decides to disconnect mid-stream
Alternatively you might want to go with res.download instead of streams, which which case appropriate headers and interruptions are automatically handled.
So the whole code might look like this:
router.route('/path/to/video.mp4')
.all(function(req, res){
res.header('content-disposition', 'filename="video.mp4"')
var stream = fs.createReadStream('./resources/video.mp4');
stream.pipe(res);
require('on-finished')(res, stream.abort.bind(stream));
// or simply
res.download(fs.readSync('/path'))
});
Then you can use http://localhost:8000/path/to/video.mp4 to either directly load the video into your browser, it'll play it if it can or simply offer to download. Or you can use this URL in your videgular
sources: [ {src: $sce.trustAsResourceUrl('http://localhost:8000/path/to/video.mp4'), type: "video/mp4"} ]