How to play nDVR sliding video with offset?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi,

Lets assume I have a 1 hour buffer with the nDVR - i.e. 3600 seconds.

I may want to start the video from the current time (“live point”), the earliest time (1 hour behind the “live” point) or somewhere in between.

I want to be able to control the player to start playing at a particular instant. Is this possible?

As an example:

  1. http://mydomain.com/ndvr?t=0 (live point)

  2. http://mydomain.com/ndvr?t=-3600 (start from one hour ago -i.e. oldest point in buffer)

  3. http://mydomain.com/ndvr?t=-1800 (start from 30 minutes ago)

Thanks

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Hi,

You can use the DVR playlist delegate (or construct your own) to specify where in the DVR store you wish to begin playback. Please see the examples in our DVR Playist Request API article for examples where the query parameter wowzadvrplayliststart is used to specify the start point.

Regards,

Paul