I am trying out streaming from S3 at the moment and noticed one thing I want to ask you about. Whenever an s3 object has a space in its name it fails to stream. I get a “Stream not found” error.
The connection strings are as follows:
Streamer: rtmp:///vods3
File: flv:amazons3//name with spaces.flv
However, when trying to stream object without space in the name it works fine - both my files or wowza example files (Streamer.mov, .mp3 and m4v).
Am I missing something ?
This will work:
File: flv:amazons3//name+with+spaces.flv
Richard
Hmm. Try these two links, with and without space.
space, stream not found
mp4:amazons3/com.lakesidetechnical.content/otto lake.m4v
space replaced, okay
mp4:amazons3/com.lakesidetechnical.content/otto+lake.m4v
Richard
What is the “streamer” Flashvar in JW player?
Richard
I’m testing. Does seem to be a problem with JW player, which does have a few quirks. I’ll dig into it more.
Richard
It did not work unfortunately. Still say “steram not found”. All permissions are correct. It should work with “+” instead of space but it does not 
Got “stream not found” for both. I am using jw player 4.3. Will investigate the player side of things now.
yeah its a flashvar that specifies streaming server: protocol, server address and a bucket - for S3 case
Ok here is the solution that worked for me:
I am using PHP and JW Player 4.3. The problem is due to JW player not encoding url when rtmp protocol is used (specifically in RTMPTModel.as file). So to fix the problem with playing files that have spaces you need to either:
Replace spaces with “+” and urlencode() the whole url after that. For example: [PHP]urlencode(“mp4:amazons3//file+name+with+spaces.m4v”);[/PHP]
Double urlencode() the whole url. For example: [PHP]urlencode(urlencode(“mp4:amazons3//file name with spaces.m4v”));[/PHP]
Anton