Content directory and playlist question!

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hi!

When specifying playlist items, is it allowed for the files to include folder path which is outside of the content directory for the application? We have one application recording to one directory and that directory may sometimes be input for another application.

Thanks!

Atmapuri

2

Hi,

Please take a look at the How to playback with the example Adobe Flash players (RTMP) article, the Playback of content outside of the content root paragraph.

Zoran

3

You can set the Application.xml/StorageDir to any folder on the computer or mounted network drive, but you can only have one storage location per application.

If you need multiple storage locations per application you will need to use MediaCache:

How to scale video on demand streaming with Media Cache

Salvadore

4

Dear Salvadore,

Is it allowed to have subfolders in the storage location? In one (corner) case you could specify C:\ as the storage dir and have videos in subfolders.

Thanks!

Atmapuri

5

Yes, this is supported.

This forum thread documents this in detail:

Subfolders in application content folder

Salvadore