me? I’m EST in FLA
Richard
Playlist items are videos, like Extremists.m4v or actual live streams being published by an encoder.
Playlists and Streams are separate, they are “loosely coupled” You can only have one Playlist associated with a Stream at a time, but you can maintain many Playlists and Streams and change them around. Try it out with the controller app. You could have one Stream and many Playlists, and switch between Playlists to change what is playing on that Stream.
Richard
In the scheduler smil, to include the live stream, use “-2” for the start value:
<video src="liveStream_0.flv" start="-2" length="15" />
You don’t need the controller app to do it now. It might be broken anyway. Just use the scheduler for now.
Does the live stream really have a .flv extension? It’s possible, but a little unusual. In anycase, whatever stream name you are using in the live encoder is what you should use, extension or no extension.
fyi, mixing streams in the schedule that have different encodings will have mixed results. Should work in Flash, but IPhone, Silverlight and RTSP playback might not work very well or at all.
Richard
Maybe not possible. With this smil, users who are tuned in from the first moment will see 15 seconds of liveStream_0.flv, then 15 seconds of Extremists.m4v, then the livestream indefinitely (because length is -1). You could put a length on livestream so it stops periodically, then the two other 15 second segments will play again, then livestream will start again. But I think if livestream is stopped (e.g. the live encoder stops publishing), Stream1 will stop.
Richard
There’s no magic trick. There’s a million ways to arrange these parts. The event handlers of IMediaStreamActionNotify2 and IStreamNotify might be useful
Richard
Richard,
1/ Could it be possible to remove an item from a playlist dynamically just like it’s possible to add one ?
2/ If I add an item to playlist, then later restart WMS, the item won’t be played, which is normal as the module don’t rewrite SMIL file on addItemToPlaylist().
In this case, I’ll use my Flex app to rewrite SMIL file. Question is : openPlaylistOnStream() reloads the SMIL file without the need to restart WMS ?
Thank you.
Ok. So you mean that if I change SMIL file content and call openPlaylistOnStream(), controller won’t read SMIL ?
Controller works with in memory playlist ?
Ok. Let’s say ServerListener starts with streamschedule.smil, playing 1 stream Stream1, containing 1 playlist pl1.
I want to change something during playback, no matter what, using a Controller and without having to restart WMS.
For now, I can rewrite streamschedule.smil with a Flex app to reflect the changes.
In controller, could I code a specific openPlaylistOnStream() to open a new Stream ?
When I write “new”, I mean a Stream which was not previously in streamschedule.smil when ServerListener starts ?
And what about opening a new Playlist ?
I know we talk about this earlier and I’m sure my questions drive you crazy 
By the way, hope you see what I’m trying to do …
Seems that switching from playlist containing files to playlist with live stream does not work on iPad. Works great with Flash.
Each file and live stream work on iPad. Switch operation between them don’t.
More to come …
I know Richard, I’m using a Flex app built from your FLA code.
Switching works on Flash client but not on iPad … Once again, more to come later …
Ok, this confirms what I experienced earlier.
Where does come this info ? Your own tests ? Apple ?
Just received your answer Richard. Don’t know where to go now 
I read all the postings in that thread and didn’t find how to make specific Stream entity common to both way to handle it.
Also, I don’t know where the error line in logs come from … Will investigate more on this …
Sorry, I don’t understand. To be clear, when I read this :
You can use this with (or without) the server listener stream scheduler. If this application module is used in the same application that the scheduler populates with Streams and Playlists, you can use this application can be used to control those Streams and Playlists.
I understand that if “Stream1” is created in scheduler with “pl1”, I can for instance add items to “pl1” from controller. “Stream1” and “pl1” are shared between scheduler and controller. Is it right ?
Hi Richard,
I would like to know if possible DELETE files from a playlist.
We have one module than allow to AddItems to one playlist dynamically without problems, but we have some doubt about how we can Remove items from this list on the fly.
Can you tell me if have some function for doing this with the API?
SORRY: The answer is in a old post: https://www.wowza.com/forums/showpost.php?p=35672&postcount=19
Boolean success = stream.removeFromPlaylist("Extremists.flv");
Thanks in advance,
Alejandro
Thanks for your quick reply.
I am assuming the module is "ServerPublisher (Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced required)
Server Listener that uses the new Stream class to publish live streams from static content. You can also schedule streams, like a TV station".
If this is the module, I have already have this done. It worked using the scheduler but am not able to use this with this https://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/collection/client/StreamClassControl.zip.
I am trying to follow this instructions "Enter a Stream (I filled in “StreamNew”), then click “add stream”
Enter a Playlist (I filled in “playlistNew”), then click “add playlist”
Add at least one item to the playlist (I filled in “mp4:Extremists.m4v” with start of 0 and length -1), click “add Item to playlist”
Then click “open playlist on stream”
Then in above, enter the streamname, “StreamNew” and click “Play”
To add a new item, enter a new video name with start and length, and click “add item to playlist”, then click open “open playlist on stream again”. If the video is currently playing, the new item will start playing after the current one or when it cycles through to the end. You can also click “play next item”
Thanks.
The /conf/live/Application.xml now looks like this:
true
localhost
live
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/keys
cupertinostreaming,smoothstreaming
-1
*
*
*
*
digest
digest
senderreport
12000
*
base
Base
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore
properties
Properties
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleProperties
logging
Client Logging
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleClientLogging
flvplayback
FLVPlayback
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleFLVPlayback
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
com.wowza.wms.plugin.mediacasterstreammanager.ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
mediaCasterStreamManagerPassword
!()$£&^%"!901
Does that seems right?
Thanks.
Thanks fot your help.
This is now the amended version.
true
live
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/keys
cupertinostreaming,smoothstreaming
-1
*
*
*
*
digest
digest
senderreport
12000
*
base
Base
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore
properties
Properties
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleProperties
logging
Client Logging
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleClientLogging
flvplayback
FLVPlayback
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleFLVPlayback
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
com.wowza.wms.plugin.mediacasterstreammanager.ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
streamcontroller
ModuleStreamControl
com.wowza.wms.plugin.collection.module.ModuleStreamControl
streamcontroller
ModuleStreamControl
com.wowza.wms.plugin.collection.module.ModuleStreamControl
mediaCasterStreamManagerPassword
!()$£&^%"!901
Does this sound right now?
Thanks again.
The new version is like this:
true
live
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content
${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/keys
cupertinostreaming,smoothstreaming
-1
*
*
*
*
digest
digest
senderreport
12000
*
base
Base
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore
properties
Properties
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleProperties
logging
Client Logging
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleClientLogging
flvplayback
FLVPlayback
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleFLVPlayback
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
com.wowza.wms.plugin.mediacasterstreammanager.ModuleMediaCasterStreamManager
streamcontroller
ModuleStreamControl
com.wowza.wms.plugin.collection.module.ModuleStreamControl
mediaCasterStreamManagerPassword
!()$£&^%"!901
"
But now am even getting this error:
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:51:42 - - - - - 307.825 - - - - - - - Missing function: createStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:51:52 - - - - - 318.18 - - - - - - - Missing function: deleteStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:51:54 - - - - - 320.007 - - - - - - - Missing function: releaseStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:51:54 - - - - - 320.007 - - - - - - - Missing function: FCPublish
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:51:54 - - - - - 320.008 - - - - - - - Missing function: createStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:04 - - - - - 330.362 - - - - - - - Missing function: deleteStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:06 - - - - - 332.211 - - - - - - - Missing function: releaseStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:06 - - - - - 332.211 - - - - - - - Missing function: FCPublish
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:06 - - - - - 332.212 - - - - - - - Missing function: createStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:16 - - - - - 342.552 - - - - - - - Missing function: deleteStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:18 - - - - - 344.395 - - - - - - - Missing function: releaseStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:18 - - - - - 344.395 - - - - - - - Missing function: FCPublish
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:18 - - - - - 344.396 - - - - - - - Missing function: createStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:29 - - - - - 354.753 - - - - - - - Missing function: deleteStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:30 - - - - - 356.565 - - - - - - - Missing function: releaseStream
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:30 - - - - - 356.566 - - - - - - - Missing function: FCPublish
WARN server comment 2009-12-21 13:52:30 - - - - - 356.566 - - - - - - - Missing function: createStream
Thanks so much. That works now.
Much appreciated.
Hi Richard,
Is there a way i can recompile the “Modified Live Stream Player”. I have added secure token and the changed the url to “rtmpe” plus 1 or 2 things. - This is a modified version of Wowza Live Player with these features.
Thanks.