Streaming plugin: cluster Gain performance and reliability by streaming from multiple servers

// a global variable that references our info box
var info = document.getElementById("info");

flowplayer("player", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.4.swf", {
	log: { level: 'debug', filter: 'org.flowplayer.cluster.*' },
    plugins:  {

		// cluster plugin configuration
		cluster: {

			url: 'flowplayer.cluster-3.2.2.swf',

			// our hosts on the cluster
			hosts: [
				  // first two hosts will fail
				 'http://invalid.flowplayer.org/video',
				 'http://nonexistent.flowplayer.org/video',

				 // this one will answer (if the server is up)
				'http://vod01.netdna.com/vod/demo.flowplayer'
			],

			// callback method for connection attempt
			onConnect: function(host, index) {
				info.innerHTML += "attempting to connect: " + host + "<br />";
			},

			// callback method for connection failure
			onConnectFailed: function(host, index) {
				info.innerHTML += "connection failed to: " + host + "<br />";
			}
		}

    },

	 // use our cluster plugin as a "URL resolver"
    clip: {
        urlResolvers: 'cluster',

        onStart: function(clip) {
			  info.innerHTML += "clip started: " + clip.url;
        }
    }
});

// a global variable that references our info box
var infoBox = document.getElementById("balanceInfo");

flowplayer("balancer", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.4.swf", {
	
	// configuration for the clustering plugin
	plugins:  {
		cluster: {
			url: 'flowplayer.cluster-3.2.2.swf',
			
			// two working hosts
			hosts: [
				'http://vod01.netdna.com/vod/demo.flowplayer',
				'http://video.flowplayer.org'
			],
			
			// that are load balanced (accessed randomly)
			loadBalance: true,
			
			
			// callback method that updates our info box
			onConnect: function(host, index) {
				 infoBox.innerHTML += "attempting to connect to: " + host + "<br />";
			}
		}
    },	 

    clip: {
		 
		  // our clip uses clustering plugin
        urlResolvers: 'cluster',

        onStart: function(clip) {
           infoBox.innerHTML += "started clip: " + clip.url;
        }
    }
	 
});

flowplayer("player", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.4.swf", {

    clip: {
        // for FMS we don't use the file extension here
        url: 'Extremists',
        provider: 'rtmp',

        // the clustering plugin is configured as a connectionProvider
        // when used with RTMP
        connectionProvider: 'clustering'
    },

    plugins:  {
        // we don't need the netConnectionUrl here because it is
        // taken from the hosts array of the cluster
        rtmp: {
             url: 'flowplayer.rtmp.swf'
        },
        clustering: {
            url: 'flowplayer.cluster.swf',
            netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://cyzy7r959.rtmphost.com/flowplayer',

            // Our hosts array contains the netConnectionUrls to the servers
            hosts: [
                {host:'rtmp://cyzy7r959.badhost1.com/flowplayer'},
                {host:'rtmp://cyzy7r959.badhost2.com/flowplayer'},
                {host:'rtmp://cyzy7r959.rtmphost.com/flowplayer'}
            ]
        }
    }
});