Player for Live streaming

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hi there,

I run a live streaming website, and recently installed wowza media server on my dedicated server. I have got Live, DVR and transcode applications working. But how to add these streams to a player, I have tested them with the example players included. I have tried jw player but it does not support http for dvr stream and flow player I can’t get it to work.

I am not a programmer. It is wonderful to have all these features available from wowza server but they are not easily integrated into a player.

Before my trial runs out I would like to see it working on all devices and then purchase the license.

Is there an easy solution to this, a player that can play my rtmp streams (dvr) and automatically detect device type, and stream resolution or manually select stream resolution.

thanks

Ravinder

2

Hi

The Wowza nDVR AddOn only supports HTTP clients such as iOS devices and specific players, nDVR can’t play over RTMP or RTSP.

JW Player does support HTTP clients as HTML5 fallback so again this supports iOS devices and some Android phones that also support Cupertino streaming (Apple HLS).

I think that JW Player 6 is the version you’re looking for which will support the HTML5 fallback

A guide to use JW Player version 6 can be found here,

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-wowza-streaming-engine

Jason

3

There is an example of using Flowplayer with Wowza DVR on this Flowplayer page:

http://flash.flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/httpstreaming.html

flowplayer("httpstreaming-dvr", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf", {
    plugins: {
        f4m: {
            url: "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.f4m-3.2.9.swf",
            dvrBufferTime: 12,
            liveBufferTime: 12
        },
        httpstreaming: {
            url: "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.httpstreaming-3.2.10.swf"
        }
    },
    clip: {
        url: "http://example.com:1935/dvr/livestream/manifest.f4m?DVR",
        urlResolvers: ['f4m'],
        provider: 'httpstreaming',
        autoPlay: false
    }
});

Richard

4

Ravinder,

I added it to the Flowplayer article:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-flowplayer-with-wowza-media-server-software#DVR

Richard

5

That version of Flowplayer does not support iOS. You need Flowplayer 5, which we have not documented yet.

Richard

6

Just remove the “?DVR” part of the url. I see it in two places.

Richard

7

I’m not sure what you are asking for.

Richard

8

Hi Richard,

thanks for this, is there anyway you can give the complete flow player setup as i don’t know where to put this code.

Thanks appreciate your help

Ravinder

9

Hi richard,

thank you for the code and your help it worked great. One more thing could tell me how to put the iphone compatible url in that code

http://ipaddress:1935/dvr/playlist.m3u8?DVR

thanks

Ravinder

10

Hi Richard,

I have got flow player setup for iphone as well and with dvr, if anyone needs the code please let me know.

thanks again

Ravinder

11

Hi Richard,

I have this code working http DVR streaming and iphone as well, can you help me to modify this code so it works with livestream only, no DVR.

thanks in advance

Ravinder

12

Hi Richard,

I tried that it did not work.

I used to have dvr addon available to me through monthly license, but now i have purchased perpetual and don’t have dvr addon. Stream is connecting and i can see it working on jw player but jw player.

here is the modified code

please check.

Thank you.

Ravinder

13

Try DL apps.called MX Player from Play Store.I had problem streaming and with this player I can tream live video flawlessly.Make sure you go to setting menu/Decoder/checkS/W decoder(network).Then go back to menu/Network stream/Enter your string rtsp://…It should work well.Good luck.

Thai