Flash playout of video Issues

Question

We are using the Flash player within IE11 on both A3 and DTP to receive multicast video streams (RTMFP with encryption). The feed is provided by the VBrick Rev
platform and associated on premise CDN.

In some of our tests we have had reports of poor quality (pixilation when movement occurs), but only from some of the recipients of the same multicast stream. Users of both VDI and Physical builds have reported problems (thereby ruling out Flash offload as the culprit).

We currently lack any client side instrumentation to report on the quality (loss/latency) of the received stream, and this is required to progress
troubleshooting of the problem.

Does anyone knows if anything is available on the client player that would give us these reports?

jeromiec83223024 · Answer

There's no magic flag that will spit out a video analytics report that would be useful for this kind of analysis.

You could write ActionScript to collect that data and provide performance metrics, but that requires being able to modify whatever Flash-based video player you're using.

IMO, you're better off using network tools (Wireshark, etc) to understand why the stream isn't getting from the server to the client in a reliable way.

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