Ensuring live recording output completes when shutting down the server

Wowza Developer Dojo
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Hi there,

I am currently writing a server side module to do live recording. When I shutdown the server in the middle of a live recording, the last “segment” of the live recording is incomplete (the .tmp file remains).

Is there a way to ensure that the last segment recorded can finish writing to file properly so that it is playable?

By shutdown of the server, I mean stopping the eclipse debugger, or closing the “console” window if I used the startup.bat in the [install-dir]/bin folder.

I was looking at calling vhost.getLiveStreamRecordManager().stopRecording(appInstance);

in the onServerShutdownStart(IServer) or onServerShutdownComplete(IServer) event listeners for IServerNotify3 to ensure the recording is stopped before shutdown. Would this work? If so, how could I get reference to the appInstance and vhost from the IServerNotify3 event listeners?

Thank you very much,

Eric

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Hi Eric,

You can look into using the IMediaWriterActionNotify listener interface to be notified when the recording is completed. You can then call the method to shutdown the server.

I hope that helps!

Michelle