I am using wowza player and HLS vod service. I'm asking because the vod service is too slow

[Chan_Woo_Jeong]

I am using wowza player and HLS vod service. I’m asking because the vod service is too slow.

1. Using the wowza player and use flash option in IE browser is too slow. How can I make it faster?

2. The playback speed is too slow if there is a lot of video. How can I make it faster?

Thank you for your reply

[Karel_Boek]

What exactly do you mean by “too slow”?

I recommend to get rid of Flash and go for HLS and/or MPEG-DASH. If it takes a long time before the video loads and/or the video buffers a lot, then it could be because the video has a rather high bitrate, or because you’re testing from a low-bandwidth location (or a combination of these)

[Chan_Woo_Jeong]

Thank you for answer. I’ve changed the bitrate related setting but it still plays slowly. I would appreciate it if you could tell me more about how to set this up.

[Chan_Woo_Jeong]

Thank you for answer. I’ve changed the bitrate related setting but it still plays slowly. I would appreciate it if you could tell me more about how to set this up.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

First thing @Chan Woo Jeong is to make sure you are using codecs we support in your mp4 container:

Wowza Streaming Engine media server software only supports H.264 (AVC1, MPEG-4 Part 10), AAC (MP4A, AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC), and MP3 in an MP4 file.

Then follow this guide here to set it up:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming

Now you can adjust your settings for HLS playback:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-apple-hls-packetization-cupertinostreaming#configure-hls-cupertino-properties-for-vod-streams

The chunk size, the number of chunks required and a few other settings in the article above will help you avoid it playing too slowly.

[Chan_Woo_Jeong]

Modifying the cupertinoChunkDurationTarget setting will cause vod hls to play slowly. Testing with values of 100, 1000, 5000, 10000, and 100000 does not resolve the speed.

[Chan_Woo_Jeong]

I have a condition that I need to use a free player. Thank you for answer.