Do live RTMP playlists work? Created Feb 24, 2010

If you make live: false, the duration will work, but then the pause, play does not work. Is there a work around for this. I have searched and cannot find an answer for this. I have a playlist that requires specific times from multiple netconnections (switching between streams). And with llive: false I am good, but the pause/play issue then is broken. Clicking pause on a live stream does not restart it live: false is set.

Any way to get both working?

Thank you.

It's probably not implemented because it's sorta video on demand in a live setup.

Try to work around the problem like this:

clip: {
  live: true,
  provider: "rtmp"
},
playlist: [{
  url: "stream1",
  onStart: function () { // onBegin ??
    var player = this;
    setTimeout(function () {
      player.play(1); // play next in list
    }, 20000); // 20 secs
  }
}, {
  url: "stream2",
  onStart: function () {
    var player = this;
    setTimeout(function () {
      player.play(2);
    }, 40000); // 40 secs
  }
} // etc. ]

In case the duration does not vary you could do a loop in the common clip's onStart event.

Disclaimer: untested because I have no live streams available. But you get the general idea.

The only problem that I have with your solution, is I have a RRS playlist that is generated. How would I do something similar to your solution with that?

Another approach I tried, (but it did not work) is to change the state of the live: false (which allows duration to work from playlist), to live: true onPause, then back to false onResume. But doing it with variable changes, or functions, did not work either. Does the player recognize changes to the live: on the fly on only on load?

You could add a custom property to the clips in question in the rss file, like:

<item>
  <!-- yadda yadda -->
  <liveduration>20000</liveduration>
</item>

And then in the common clip configuration:

clip: {
  onBegin: function (clip) {
    if (clip.liveduration) {
      var player = this;
      setTimeout(function () {
        if (clip.index < player.getPlaylist().length) {
          // play next in playlist
          player.play(clip.index + 1);
        } else {
          // last clip: stop after clip.liveduration
          player.stop();
        }
      }, clip.liveduration);
    }
  }
}

If all your clips have the liveduration property you obviously can remove one if-clause.

In case onBegin does not work, try onStart.

Great Job, this one is solved! Thank you.