video seekbar problem in vlc (using RTSP protocol)

[Tahir_Rauf]

Hi everyone,

BackGround Information:

I am using wowza media server 2.0 and doing vod streaming using RTSP protocol. My application is windows form application and I am using vlc plugin as my player.

Problem:

The problem is with video seekbar. When i simply play the video, the seekbar works fine but as soon as I forward/rewind/pause the video, the seekbar goes to position zero. The vlcplugin.input.time always returns zero(Although video plays well)

Can anyone please tell about it? Happy christmas

Regards

[Richard_Lanham]

Sounds like a player issue. I don’t think there is anything you can do in Wowza to help. The standalone VLC handles seek in vod rtsp streams from Wowza.

If you want to stream to a browser plugin, it would be better to use Flash or Silverlight. You can do RTMP to Flash, or Flash HTTP (SanJose) streaming with an OSMF player. And of course you can do Silverlight HTTP (Smooth) streaming to Silverlight player.

Some player links:

This is Wowza example Flash player that supports Sanjose streaming:

OSMF:

http://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/OSMFPlayers/OSMFPlayers.zip

Strobe (will do SanJose)

http://www.osmf.org/strobe_mediaplayback.html

Flash Media Playback (hosted, easiest) (will do SanJose)

http://www.osmf.org/strobe_mediaplayback.html

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-strobe-media-playback-with-a-wowza-media-server

Adobe OSMF sources

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/osmf/Open+Source+Media+Framework

You can also use Silverlight, this is the Wowza example Silverlight player:

Silverlight:

http://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/smoothstreamingexampleplayers/SmoothStreamingExamplePlayers.zip

And Expression 4 Encoder has Smooth player templates.

Richard