Hi,
I am pushing a single bitrate, high quality RTMP stream to Limelight CDN. Limelight network transcodes/transrates this into five (5) video streams for HLS and HDS playback. When these streams are viewed, I monitored that the streams keep on buffering every minute or so, even there is sufficient bandwidth. I tried to play the original, high quality RTMP source using Wowza test player and JW player, and it played perfectly. Is it possible that the cause of this issue is the keyframe interval requirement of Limelight? Based on its documentation, the keyframe interval must be set to five (5) seconds. But I do not have any idea how to set this since the stream that I am pushing to Limelight network is composed of pre-recorded contents played as live stream. (I used Wowza streamscheduler.smil for this stream).
Apart from the above question, do I need to set in the PushPublishMap.txt the following parameters?
adaptiveStreaming
sendOriginalTimecodes
originalTimecodeThreshold
By the way, I am asking that since Limelight has this note on its documentation:
“NOTE: Ensure your Primary and Backup streams are time synched using absolute timecodes to avoid disrupting the end-viewer experience when the stream switches to the Backup Ingest.”
Additional info: I’m using Wowza Streaming Engine 4.1.2 AMI on Amazon EC2 (Singapore)
Limelight publishing points are located in Japan (primary) and Australia (secondary)
My contents has key frame interval of 2 seconds and are stored at Amazon S3.
Thanks,
Roger