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Live Video in KDP3
Wed, 08/11/2010 - 05:34
Hey,
I've been trying to get a live stream to play inside the Kaltura player without any success.
The stream is coming from a Red5 server and using Flowplayer with the RTMP plugin everything is a-okay. Although we would like to use the Kaltura player because we are using Kaltura for video on demand.
The Kaltura docs were somewhat handy: http://www.kaltura.org/demos/kdp3/docs.html
I changed the streamerType parameter to live and now the player comes up with a big red "Offline" icon.
The problem as far as I can see is that you require two parameters, the URL (eg: rtmp://tv.domain.com/oflaDemo) and the stream name (ed: livestream). The KDP only has the URL option. It is necessary to define the stream and I cannot find the correct URL format to get it to work.
I found this on the Wowza forum (not exactly Red5 but tried it anyway): http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6300 no help though
How do you get live video to play through the Kaltura player?
Sun, 08/15/2010 - 16:10
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Good info Kalturian thanks.
Imagenta if you do happen to get this up and running with your KalturaCE and Red5 servers please share!
This message is suitable for the KDP forum, not the server side forum - please post in the relevant forum next time.
To enable streaming on KDP you should pass as following the flashvars:
streamerType=rtmp&streamerUrl=rtmp://server_url/application&entryId=url_to_f4m_fileor
sourceType=url&streamerType=rtmp&streamerUrl=rtmp://server_url/application&entryId=name_of_stream_to_playFor example:
streamerType=rtmp&streamerUrl=rtmp://rtmpakmi.kaltura.com:1935/ondemand&entryId=http://www.kaltura.com/p/224962/sp/22496200/playManifest/entryId/0_j16kbz4o/format/rtmp/protocol/rtmp/cdnHost/cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/a/a.f4mor
sourceType=url&streamerType=rtmp&streamerUrl=rtmp://rtmpakmi.kaltura.com:1935/ondemand/&entryId=p/224962/sp/22496200/serveFlavor/flavorId/0_t5rwr6sm/name/0_t5rwr6sm.flv/forceproxy/trueExplanation of variables:
sourceType=url: This will determine whether to use the Kaltura Server and retrieve an entry to play or directly load a file / stream.streamerType=rtmp: This sets the player to work on rtmp streaming mode.streamerUrl=rtmp://server_url/application: This tells the player what is the url to your streaming server and what is the name of the application to use.entryId=url_to_f4m_file: This specify the name of the f4m manifest file* to use or the name of the file to stream from the server.* f4m manifest file - http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/osmf/Flash+Media+Manifest+File+...