How to get thumbnails from AWS S3 using wowza

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello All,

I have videos and thumbnail in AWS S3 and I am streaming the video. Now what i want to know is how to use the thumbnails stores in aws s3 as poster frame for the videos

The URL for video is:

[IP Address]:1935/aws/definst/amazons3/mp4:[S3 Bucket Name]/20155/20185/33118/101.mp4/playlist.m3u8

This works fine

I tried using the below URL for thumbnails

[IP Address]:1935/aws/definst/amazons3/png:[S3 Bucket Name]/20155/20185/33118/101.png

Doesn’t work. Could anyone let me know how to get the stored thumbnails in AWS S3 using wowza

Thanks & Regards

Saleem Khan

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You will need an HTTP based web server to deliver your image content to your player web based player. Wowza Streaming Engine is not a web server, it is a streaming media server.

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Hello,

Sorry to bother you with this, but I am a bit puzzled with this.

I am interested in the same thing (not with AWS S3 though). I don’t get why I would need to have an HTTP based web server and a streaming media server to provide the same service to users.

Adding thumbnails is one of the essential plugins when providing the VOD experience. Even more so, if you want to have preview thumbnails on your player timeline.

Plus, if I use an HTTP based web server to store image content, it makes sense to use it as well to store the video content. I will only have one server and I would stream with HTML5 rather than use Wowza Streaming Engine.

I really want to use Wowza so, are there any thoughts on how to do this? I am not that well experienced with this, so please let me know if my thoughts are not accurate.

Thank you for your time.

Alia