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November 7, 2012
Question

RMTP VOD stream not playing in Strobemedia player

  • November 7, 2012
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We have FMS 4.5 delivering HD videos via HLS-VOD and HDS-VOD.  The VOD-DIR is set to E:\Content and the videos are located in content specific sub-directories, eg: Romans/Meet_Claudius_1000.mp4.  Related manifest files are also stored in the sub-directories.  The player accesses the videos using:

http://<site url>/hls-vod/<sub-directory>/<video filename>_5000.mp4.m3u8

or

http://<site url>/hds-vod/<sub-directory>/<video filename>_hds_manifest.f4m

We now want our users to view older Flash videos via the same player.  These videos are in FLV format and are being accessed using:

 

rtmp://<site url>/vod/<sub-directory>/<video filename>



The sub-directory mentioned here has been located at E:\Content\vod\media where e:\Content is the same VOD-DIR setting as above.



When the player is pointed at one of the older flv videos, the player does not play the video and simply sits there buffering.  The admin console shows that a client is connected to the vod _definst_ application and that there are 2 streams, one of type NetStream and one of type Live with a name of <sub-directory>/<video filename>.  The access.00.log has the following entry:



x-event x-category date time tz x-ctx s-ip x-pid x-cpu-load x-mem-load x-adaptor x-vhost x-app x-appinst x-duration x-status c-ip c-proto c-proto-ver s-uri cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query c-referrer c-user-agent c-client-id cs-bytes sc-bytes c-connect-type x-sname x-sname-query x-suri-query x-suri-stem x-suri x-file-name x-file-ext x-file-size x-file-length x-spos c-spos cs-stream-bytes sc-stream-bytes x-service-name x-sc-qos-bytes x-comment x-eid x-sid x-trans-sname x-trans-sname-query x-trans-file-ext x-trans-mode x-soffset x-codec-type x-codec x-plugin x-page-url x-smax-rec-size x-smax-rec-duration x-forwarded-for

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play stream 2012-11-07 16:01:16 GMT Standard Time 202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 172.30.178.19 1492 0 16 _defaultRoot_ _defaultVHost_ vod _definst_ 0 200 172.31.0.105 rtmp - rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod - http://demo.atomwide.com/vc2_player/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf WIN 11,2,202,235 4702111234508538223 3167 3415 normal 202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 - - rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod/202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod/202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 - flv - - 0 - 0 0 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - http://videocentral.lgfl.org.uk -1 -1.000000 -

When the player is paused, to stop the buffering, the access.00.log has the following entry shows:



pause stream 2012-11-07 16:04:45 GMT Standard Time 202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 172.30.178.19 1492 0 16 _defaultRoot_ _defaultVHost_ vod _definst_ 209 - 172.31.0.105 rtmp - rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod - http://demo.atomwide.com/vc2_player/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf WIN 11,2,202,235 4702111234508538223 3197 3921 normal 202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 - - rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod/202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 rtmp://pcontent.lgfl.org.uk:1935/vod/202-2078/d20100309_t092516132 - flv - - 0 - 0 418 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - http://videocentral.lgfl.org.uk -1 -1.000000 -

Any ideas as to how we can get the flv videos to play would be greatly appreciated.

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2 replies

November 14, 2012

I have implemented your answer and the StrobeMedia player does not play the video.  All you see is the message "Buffering".  Is this a configuration problem or a file not found issue?

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November 8, 2012

You should be giving the full path of the dircetory which has media. Ex: if your media is prsent in E:\content\vod\media, then the VOD_DIR should be  E:\content\vod\media.

From your use case, if you have a media at E:\content\vod\media\Romans\sample.flv, then have the VOD_DIR : E:\content\vod\media

URL : rtmp://<server-ip>/vod/Romans/sample

November 12, 2012

Just turning this around a bit.  If the fms.ini has a VOD-DIR value of e:\Content and the flv file is located at e:\content\school\video.flv then what should the URL be?

November 14, 2012

It would be rtmp://<server-ip>/vod/school/video.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Apurva