On 9/18/2012 3:22 AM, Rubén Pérez wrote:
> You have raised an interesting question, though. Even though we recommend
> Red5 as our reference streaming server... how many adopters are actually
> using it?

I am, as is USask I think.  It's exceedingly easy to set up, and it just
seems to work...

Are you testing this patch against Red5 as well?

G

> Regards
> 
> Rubén Pérez
> TELTEK Video Research
> www.teltek.es
> 
> * To be sincere, I don't like the fact that the download/stream URLs are
> "hard-coded" to the distributed mediapackage, and I would prefer they were
> generated "on request", but that's another story.
> 
> 2012/9/18 Tobias Wunden <[email protected]>
> 
>> Hi Rubén,
>>
>> just to clarify: is this patch specializing the streaming distribution
>> service to Wowza? Or does the patch work for streaming servers in general
>> (which would be surprising)? If it *does* specialize the service to support
>> Wowza streaming servers, then I suggest creating a new module
>> (distribution-service-wowza) instead of patching the existing
>> implementation, which is (and should remain to be) targeted at red5, which
>> is what we are advertising to be Opencast's out of the box recommendation.
>>
>> Another option would be to allow for a way to configure as part of the
>> workflow operation configuration how the path is being created. This way,
>> we could keep one implementation to rule them all :-)
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>> On 13.09.2012, at 15:55, Rubén Pérez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have created an issue in Jira (MH-9180), and committed a patch for
>> review at CR-MH-481 . Please do not hesitate to join the review and check
>> if this works with the typical streaming servers.
>>>
>>> Rubén Pérez
>>> TELTEK Video Research
>>> www.teltek.es
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/9/4 Rubén Pérez <[email protected]>
>>> That was exactly my point. I didn't want to go and modify this and break
>> it for the users of other streaming servers. I don't know if I should just
>> commit it (and potentially break the trunk), or create a bug and attach it
>> to this email, or perhaps to a bug report in Jira, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>
>>> Rubén Pérez
>>> TELTEK Video Research
>>> www.teltek.es
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/9/4 Ruediger Rolf <[email protected]>
>>> Hi Ruben,
>>>
>>> the current implementation works for us (with Wowza 3). MP4-Streaming
>> with Red5 does not work properly so it cannot really be tested. If the
>> behaviour of FMS is different. As you are a commiter and have the needed
>> FMS server why don't you fix this bug. I am willing to do a code review and
>> do some testing on Wowza.
>>>
>>> Rüdiger
>>>
>>> Am 04.09.2012 18:30, schrieb Rubén Pérez:
>>>> I'm bringing this back to life because I'm seeing this bug has not been
>> corrected in the 1.4.x branch --the "mp4" prefix is still added before the
>> filename, and not right after the "application" part of the URL.
>>>>
>>>> However, I see an additional problem in FMS. For some reason I am
>> unable to comprehend, you can NOT specify the .flv suffix in the FLV files,
>> or they won't play. There is no way of disabling or changing this
>> "feature". If, we use the "flv:" format, the stream plays perfectly, as
>> long as you don't provide the extension at all i.e.
>>>>
>>>> rtmp://my.fms.server/demo/route/to/the/video.flv
>>>>
>>>> doesn't work,
>>>>
>>>> rtmp://my.fms.server/demo/flv:route/to/the/video.flv
>>>>
>>>> doesn't work either, but
>>>>
>>>> rtmp://my.fms.server/demo/flv:route/to/the/video
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I checked this with .mp4 videos and the result is that 1 and 3 work.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: does the 3rd option work for the other streaming
>> servers, too. Because if it does, we have found a general way of writing
>> the streaming URLs which is independent from the server used, i.e. to
>> stream the file
>>>>
>>>> route/to/the/video.ext
>>>>
>>>> we use the URL
>>>>
>>>> rtmp://url.to.the.server/application_name/ext:route/to/the/video
>>>>
>>>> Can any of you confirm this?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Rubén Pérez
>>>> TELTEK Video Research
>>>> www.teltek.es
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/4/13 Rute Santos <[email protected]>
>>>> Hi Leslaw,
>>>>
>>>>     I've just updated the ticket.
>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>     Rute
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/13/2012 5:07 AM, Leslaw Zieleznik wrote:
>>>>> Hi Rute,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you open a ticket in JIRA as Tobias suggested, to apply the
>> recommended format of the rpm link for Wowza and FMS?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Leslaw
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Apr 2012, at 18:19, Rute Santos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Looking at the Wowza tutorial link below, it seems that Wowza
>> also needs the "mp4:" after the application name and before the directory
>> path in the rtmp link. The only difference from FMS seems to be that it
>> requires the "_definst_" instance name, which FMS assumes by default if no
>> instance is informed:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?35#playback
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the relevant note:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note: To play content that is not at the root of the content folder
>> you must add the default application instance name to the URL. For example
>> if you have a file at the path [install-dir]/content/myvideos/sample.mp4,
>> the URLs for the different stream technologies are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Flash player (RTMP)
>>>>>> Code:
>>>>>> Server: rtmp://[wowza-address]/vod
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stream: mp4:myvideos/sample.mp4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Single URL:
>>>>>> rtmp://[wowza-address]/vod/_definst_/mp4:myvideos/sample.mp4
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Thus, an rtmp link in the form:
>> rtmp://server/matterhorn-engage/_definst_/mp4:dir1/dir2/file.mp4 should
>> work with both FMS and Wowza.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Rute
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/9/2012 11:37 AM, Rute Santos wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Ruben, Hank,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     I was looking at the Wowza documentation and it also has the
>> concept of "application" as FMS does. So, I am just wondering if Wowza
>> accepts both forms? I recall Hank said that the rtmp link is working with
>> Wowza as is, but I was wondering if he could try to use the other form and
>> see if it works too? I am curious...
>>>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Rute
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/9/2012 11:33 AM, Hank Magnuski wrote:
>>>>>>>> The "application" convention is certainly present in Wowza and I
>> believe Red5 as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hank
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2012/4/9 Rubén Pérez <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> It would be interesting to know if Wowza is effectively following
>> the same convention. We have already have bizarre integration problems with
>> FMS because it follows its own conventions as to the syntax of the media to
>>                                   stream.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We would be happy to have that patch attached to the main source
>> code, since we are FMS users ourselves, but I think we shouldn't stick to a
>> certain notation if it's not shared by the popular streaming alternatives,
>> too (I'm not saying it's not, just willing to get confirmation of it). I
>> may be wrong here, but "application" seems like an internal FMS concept,
>> which may not be share by other streaming servers. It also seems to me like
>> an unnatural place to put the tag (I'd rather expect it to be before the
>> filename or at the beginning of the URL), that's why I'm trying to be
>> cautious here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2012/4/9 Tobias Wunden <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Hi Rute,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    We use FMS here with our current system to stream mp4 files
>> and the "mp4:" tag should come after the application name. So, if the file
>> resides several directory levels below e.g. dir1/dir2/file.mp4, the rtmp
>> link should contain "/app_name/mp4:dir1/dir2/file.mp4" and not
>> "app_name/dir1/dir2/mp4:file.mp4". The links you list below don't have
>> examples with many levels of directories. I don't know about Wowza, but I
>> bet it is                                           the same :)
>>>>>>>>>    I have a patch for this if anyone is interested (how should I
>> submit it?)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are certainly interested to apply your patch if you've go this
>> working! The correct for submitting patches is the following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1) Open a ticket in JIRA describing your problem.
>>>>>>>> 2) Us the "attach" function to attach your patch
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also feel free to let the developers (on
>> [email protected]) know that you've submitted a patch and
>> would welcome feedback and integration (optional step :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tobias
>>>>>>>>
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