How to play a video on demand file

[charlie]

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[asrekik]

Hi,
I'd like to play a video on demand file, I read the appropriate tutorial and I run it using the Extremists.m4v file. but when i past my file "Fichier.mp4" to the folder "Content" and when I try to play the new file using the examples/SimpleVideoStreaming/client/simplevideostreaming.html sample,
I receive the error in the Wowza Media Server Console:

WARN server comment Fichier.mp4 MediaReaderH264.open[2]: java.lang.Exception: QT
Utils.parseQTMediaContainer: File is missing 'moov' atom.

Have you any idea to solve this problem.
thank you

[charlie]

It sounds like the file is not properly formatted. We can take a look at it. Send a copy to support@wowzamedia.com.

Charlie

[Alexey]

Hi Charlie,

Does described method of Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming supported by latest Flowplayer (3.1.5)?

Here is a part of code from flowplayer.smil-3.1.3 plugin. It seems to be very primitive.

        private function parseSmil(smilFile:String):Array {
            log.debug("parsing SMIL file " + smilFile);
            var smil:XML = new XML(smilFile);
            return [smil.children()[0].children()[0].@base.toString(), smil.children()[1].children()[0].@src.toString()];
        }

[nandakumar]

Hello,

I have tired the Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming as per your instructions but it gives following error in log file


ERROR server comment 2010-01-11 06:36:55 - - - - - 1583442.288 - - - - - - - MediaReaderFactory: getInstance: Missing definition for smil


Please let me know the solution to fix this issue.

[rrlanham]

Alexy,

For Flowplayer, you have to try it out, but I think the answer (at this moment) is no. But I am not sure. JW player 4.7 is supposed to work for multi-bitrate, and they are working on multi-bitrate for JW player 5.

Richard

[rrlanham]

Nandakumar,

Please provide more details. You should be using Wowza Server 2. What player technology are you using? If Flash, which player system? Are you prepending "smil:" to stream name?

Richard

[hikalodner]

The tutorial says:

"Enter the following URL into the Safari web browser on the device:

Code:
http://[wowza-address]:1935/vod/mp4:.../playlist.m3u8
Note: This stream can also be played using the Safari Browser or QuickTime 10.x on a computer running OSX version 10.6 or greater (Snow Leopard).

This works very well on an iPod Touch and using the Get URL function in QuickTime Player. However in Safari it downloads the playlist part of the command as an iTunes file with the following content:

"#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=100000
http://161.77.180.51:1935/vod/mp4:Extremists.m4v/playlist.m3u8?wowzasessionid=1565372152"

It does not play the movie.

What can I do to make this work - I ultimately need to be able to place a command in an html document which will play the movie.

Thanks for your advice.

[rrlanham]

On the IPhone, go to Settings > Safari > Plugins. It's probably "OFF". Switch it on and it should work.

Richard

[hikalodner]

I should have been clearer. When I described my experience with Safari, I should have said that I meant Safari on a desktop computer. The same result (that download of a file with an iTunes icon) occurs when I use FireFox or Chrome on either of the computers which I have used (Mac Pro and MacBook Pro). If I play the dowloaded file (titled playlist.m3u8) using QuickTime, it makes a brief buzzing sound and then plays the next file in my iTunes music directory. I have also tried this http:// command as suggested in the Tutorial on my wife's Windows computer. It does have iTunes installed and its behavior is the same as on my two Macintosh computers.

I am sorry that I was not clearer in my prior message. I hope this helps. By the way, my Macintosh computers are both running SnowLeopard and my wife's Windows machine is using WindowsXP.