Transcoder and handling of interrupting live stream

[ScottKell]

Yes I have done this already.. Your patch did the trick for jwplayer.

My second issue with a stopped livestream is with iOS and it may be related to the DVR rather than ngrp/smil.

The issue now is that this always buffer/playing behavior is happening with the DVR mode with ios... when a broadcast stream ends, iOS playback doesnt appear to show to the player that the stream has ended..

Just so I understand your DVR issue. You are recording a live stream and at the same time playing it back on iOS. The recording stops. Playback continues, but the iOS device doesn't know the recording ended. So what happens on the device? It's still trying to retrieve data?

Does that describe it?

There is a property "streamTimeout" that determines how long DVR keeps waiting for more content to record before determining that no more is coming. Its set to 300000 ms (5 minutes) to facilitate encoder resets/reboots that could occur. You could try lowering this value. See here: http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....-Configuration

The other possibility is that we're not sending the info to the iOS device properly that there is no more live content. I'll add this to my list of things to verify.

Scott

[optics]

I can pick this up on the DVR forum is since it applies there better.. but yes. If I stop a live broadcast while playing in iOS, it doesnt seem to notify the iOS player that the broadcast stopped and I cannot really react to it with javascript because of this. It may be the 5 minutes that you mention, I havent tried waiting that long.

Also when new players arrive to watch the stream when it has already ended, it picks up and displays some last frame of the broadcast for some time and/or it will start the dvr buffer it seems... even though my mode of archiving is delete.

i would think there should be a way for a live broadcast to just start and stop as expected, even with DVR enabled while actually broadcasting.

i also cannot react to the fact that its stopped playing in an expected fashion.

[ScottKell]

Good idea. I moved the DVR related thread here: http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthre...pped-recording