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Delaying destruction of live streams

We want to create a periscope-like live streaming platform. But also we want the users to be able to view the whole history of a given live stream rather than only the last 30 seconds, I’ve set up transcoding and nDVR which is working well viewing via HLS like http://server:1935/live/ngrp:testStream_all/playlist.m3u8?DVR . However the moment the client disconnects the live stream is removed, and the nDVR links all go away. Is there a way to delay the destruction of live streaming instances for several hours (or do it later via a REST call)? I really can’t find any references to this in the docs but I feel that this must be a very common feature…

Very interesting point Elizabeth, would be also interested to find out more.

Maybe you could try to edit your app in the :8088 Manager and choose the option:

Record all incoming streams

Would be glad if that helped you.