Cannot play a media file from the beginning
stephenlai asked 6 years ago
I have placed a MP4 file (content.mp4) in the folder “media” of an EvoStream Media Server. And, the server has Stream Aliases enabled.
First, I issue the following command to the server:
addStreamAlias localStreamName=content.mp4 aliasName=ContentAlias expirePeriod=0
Then, I issue the following command to the server:
pullstream uri=rtmp://127.0.0.1/vod/ContentAlias keepAlive=1 localStreamName=ContentLive
Finally, I issue the following command to the server:
addStreamAlias localStreamName=ContentLive aliasName=ContentLiveAlias
expirePeriod=0 However, when I try to play the MP4 file with the following URI rtmp://<SERVER_ADDRESS>/live/ContentLiveAlias although the MP4 file can be played, the beginning of the file is skipped. Any idea in start playing the MP4 file from its beginning.
expirePeriod=0 However, when I try to play the MP4 file with the following URI rtmp://<SERVER_ADDRESS>/live/ContentLiveAlias although the MP4 file can be played, the beginning of the file is skipped. Any idea in start playing the MP4 file from its beginning.
2 Answers
stephenlai answered 6 years ago
May be, I would like to revise my question as follows.
I want to play a MP4 file stored in the “media” folder using WebSockets with the HTML5 web player of EMS (http://docs.evostream.com/2.0/html5players_wsdemo.html). Any idea in doing so?
(The idea of my approach as mentioned in the original question comes from “HLS VOD Work Around” in the web page http://docs.evostream.com/2.0/userguide_videoondemand.html.)
erika Staff answered 6 years ago
Hi stephenlai ,
Apologies for the late response.
As mentioned in the documentation, you can only play the following in Websockets:
- Pulled RTMP/RTSP streams
- Lazy pulled streams (filename.vod)
- Playlist files (filename.lst)