AKAMAI live stream Created Jul 17, 2009

I need to get flowplayer working with Akamai live streaming too. Has anyone figured out how to do this yet?

Hi from Spain.

If you got a solution to get Akamai stream working on flowplayer, would you share it with us?

The development version of the Akamai plugin has been improved now. It's not available yet, but can be found in the current development version. Do you have a SMIL file or a test stream so that I could set up an example?

Anssi

Hi there!

Akamai provides me with the following info:

CONNECT rtmp://cp80623.live.edgefcs.net/live/
PLAY esRadio-Directo@13570

I'm right now streaming rubbish so you can test it thoroughly :)

Here's an example. Works with the current version and the trick was to have the subscribe: true option in the RTMP plugin.



HTML setup for the player

<!-- include latest Flowplayer javascript file -->
<script language="javascript" src="path/to/flowplayer-3.2.8.js"></script>

<!-- player container with optional splash image -->
<a href="path/to/video_file" id="playerContainer">
	<img src="path/to/splash_image" />
</a>

JavaScript coding

Following script will install Flowplayer into our player container

<script language="javascript">
// our custom configuration is given in third argument
flowplayer("playerContainer", "path/tohttp://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.11.swf",{
clip: {
  netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://cp80623.live.edgefcs.net/live',
  url: 'esRadio-Directo@13570',
  live: true,
  provider: 'rtmp'
},
plugins: {
  rtmp: {
     url: 'flowplayer.rtmp.swf',
     subscribe: true
  }
}
});
</script>

It works jus SMOOTH. Thank you so MUCH!!!!!

This too works wonderfully for me streaming live from Akamai!

Anssi,

This is still not working for me.

I spent an hour on the phone with Akamai, and they told me that there is an authorization string that must be passed with the url. They gave me instructions on how to form the string, but when I do it, the player breaks. There is no debug info, and the controls are not present.

Here is what I had at first, according to your instructions:

clip:{
netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://xxxxxx.live.edgefcs.net/live',
url: 'yyy@zzzzzz',
live: true,
provider: 'rtmp'
},

They say that it must be like this:

clip:{
netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://xxxxxxx.live.edgefcs.net/live/yyy@zzzzz?auth=daEb3d.b1a_d.bdaQaCbKcaamanbgc0aJaC-bkL9DB-eS-GFComvuzrzDxqrCo&aifp=0001',
url: 'yyy@zzzzzz',
live: true,
provider: 'rtmp'
},

When I do this, the player breaks.

If I remove the last part: "&aifp=0001" , it doesn't break, but still does not stream.

Although it is possible to get Akamai to turn off the need for the auth parameter, we cannot do this, because we would run the risk of others pulling our streams, and costing us huge amounts of money due to the extra bandwidth.

So, we must have this authorization string in place in order to access our live streams.

Can you modify the player to be able to accept this information?

If you need actual working data, let me know, and I can email you the link to our xml files, so you can pull the auth token out in real-time. The auth token is only good for 5 minutes.

Kenny

subscribe: true ???

It is set to true in the rtmp plugin:

plugins: {

rtmp: {
url: '/flash/flowplayer.rtmp-3.1.1.swf',
subscribe: true
}

}

Try escaping the netConnectionUrl like this:

netConnectionUrl: escape('rtmp://xxxxxxx.live.edgefcs.net/live/yyy@zzzzz?auth=daEb3d.b1a_d.bdaQaCbKcaamanbgc0aJaC-bkL9DB-eS-GFComvuzrzDxqrCo&aifp=0001'),
...

At one point I was testing with a Akamai specific SMIL file that encapsulates the stream name and the netConnectionUrl, plus the auth parameter that is used in the netConnectionUrl. Do you have this option available?

The latest dev version of the Akamai plugin supports this kind of SMIL files. You just specify the SMIL file url as the clip URL and include the SMIL and Akamai plugins in the mix (rtmp plugin is the clip's provider and the Akamai plugin as the urlResolver).

Anssi

No luck on this either. Our rtmp Flash streams at Akamai fail. "Stream not found" errors. Found another post with similar problem, but none of what they mention fixes my issue:

http://flowplayer.org/forum/2/30135

I verified that the streams were valid and playable using other methods, like JW Player's Setup Wizard and VLC.

I successfully played some other rtmp streams hosted at other providers, even Flowplayer's test stream.

Here is my code, which matches identically with what is shown in that other post above:

 $f('fms', 'flowplayer.swf', { 
  // Akamai Live Streams
  clip: { 
    netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://cp76336.live.edgefcs.net/live', 
    url: 'Demo1@11908', 
    live: true, 
    provider: 'rtmp' 
  }, 
  plugins: { 
    rtmp: {
       url: 'flowplayer.rtmp.swf',
       subscribe: true
    } 
  }
});

Noy sure if you've solved this, but the netConnectionUrl goes into the rtmp section.

$f('fms', 'flowplayer.swf', { 
  // Akamai Live Streams
  clip: { 
    url: 'Demo1@11908', 
    live: true, 
    provider: 'rtmp' 
  }, 
  plugins: { 
    rtmp: {
       netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://cp76336.live.edgefcs.net/live',
       url: 'flowplayer.rtmp.swf',
       subscribe: true
    } 
  }
});