Basic pseudostreaming setup Streaming plugins - Demo 1 / 5

Example

This demo introduces you to very important topics such as content delivery networks (CDNs) and pseudostreaming. Click on the following video and pay attention to its fast video download speed and the ability to seek anywhere on the timeline.

Pseudostreaming is a technology that allows you to seek anywhere on the video timeline although the video has not been fully loaded yet. This needs some configuration work on the server side. Servers that support this technology includes lighttpd and nginx. Luckily Simple CDN provides pseudostreaming support without any configuration. Take a look at the psudostreaming plugin documentation for more information about this important technology.

Flowplayer configuration

Here is the JavaScript configuration for the above example:

$f("player", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", {

	// this will enable pseudostreaming support 
	plugins: { 
		pseudo: { url: 'flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.3.swf' } 
	},
	
	// clip properties 
	clip: {
		
		// make this clip use pseudostreaming plugin with "provider" property
		provider: 'pseudo',				
		
		// all videos under this baseUrl support pseudostreaming on the server side		
		url: 'http://flashy.flowplayer.org/video/Extremists.flv'		
	}   
});

Remember that you shoud also prepare your video files for pseudostreaming.