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Poster image with SMIL and jwplayer.rss

We are using JWPlayer and the newest version of Wowza server. We have successfully configured multi-bit-rate using an SMIL and the /jwplayer.rss method.

wow, were we stumped for a while not knowing the instance name was required, in our case definst, but we eventually figured that out too.

Our final hurdle is that we cannot get a preview image to display, and I think it’s because of the jwplayer.rss media RSS that is being read into the player doesn’t have the <media:thumbnail url="" /> node configured.

Is there any way to configure the SMIL file so that this node is added to the xml for each ABR stream?

SMIL Code:

Sorry, to be clear, I meant how do we add the media:thumbnail child node to the media:group node

There is not a built-in way to get a thumb-name from Wowza like this. I think you can use http url to a image on a web site.

To generate thumbnails, there is this

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-take-a-single-frame-snapshot-of-a-live-stream-for-thumbnail-creation-modulecreatesnapshot

And this for Transcoder:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-thumbnail-images-from-wowza-transcoder-with-an-http-provider

But getting images to a web server and referencing in the rss is up to you.

Richard

Thanks Richard. No worries, we went with a clientside mRSS instead of using the SMIL method. I was just hoping I could have included and tag along with the