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Hi, im struggling to get rtmp working with your plugin, It may be something im doing wrong:
I set “Default Flash streaming Server” to:
rtmp://mybucket.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/
And tried the following shortcodes:
Works, but doesnt use rmtp:
[fvplayer src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/myvideo/myvideo.mp4" rtmp="rtmp://mybucket.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/" rtmp_path="myvideo.mp4" embed="false" live="true"]Doesn’t load, just hangs (I removed the src to force rmtp)
[fvplayer rtmp="rtmp://mybucket.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/" rtmp_path="myvideo.mp4" embed="false" live="true"]Works over rtmp:
[fvplayer rtmp="rtmp://r.demo.flowplayer.netdna-cdn.com/play" rtmp_path="vod/demo.flowplayer/buffalo_soldiers.mp4" embed="false" live="true"]My suspicion is i must have messed something up with setting up my rtmp on amazon, when i turned on admin video checking i got:
RTMP Error: Connection failed. (Application specific message: SabreAMF_AMF3_Wrapper Object ( [data:SabreAMF_AMF3_Wrapper:private] => stdClass Object ( [message] => InvalidInstance: '_cfmeta_customerlogs=0&_cfmeta_dnsname=mybucket.cloudfront.net&_cfmeta_id=e1o4batgiui2hj&_cfmeta_parsed=17877196&_cfmeta_payerid=:1:d2:bcd3:pid12:671078977167ee&_cfmeta_priceclass=priceclass_100'. A connect string of 'cfx/st' is required. ) ) )Any pointers you can give will really help, I’m also looking at your Pro version, any ideas when we might see a paywall feature?
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Hi Farridav,
We have very detailed documentation on how to set up both Amazon S3 and Cloudfront including MIME type. If you’d like us to set it up for you hands on, we are happy to do so as an additional service.
For a Paywall we recommend using a simple membership solution. We recommend Restrict Content Pro and S2 Member. We are considering an individual fee per video system. The disadvantage of pay per video is that every time the user will have to reenter payment information and will not have an easy way to get back to the video later. We are working on a guide, as well as a service to set membership (including testing and troubleshooting).
Please let me know any thoughts you have about Paywall.
Making the web work for you, Alec
Alec,
Thanks for your reply, Ive read through your documentation, its been very helpful..
Something that I had overlooked was setting up my distribution for serving protected content, you cover this in great detail here (https://foliovision.com/player/serving-private-cloudfront)
After readin all of this, it dawned on me that if i use only RTMP then I lose a lot of my audience because its not mobile friendly, and if i supply an mp4 link then users have the link straight to my currently unprotected content..
I see that to use them both and keep content protection, I can upgrade the FV player plugin and use “Amazon CloudFront protected content”, but that seems no different to the current expiring urls feature..
On that note, the links seem to take a long time to expire, even after analysing the videos using the plugin e.g: a 1 min 30 sec video takes 30 mins plus to expire.. I had thought it determined the time required to buffer the video and set the expiration time for that amount of time? Is that correct?
Thanks again for your help and advice
Hi Farridav,
You can adjust the expiry time. Still the people who are looking to pirate content won’t be put off by a short expiry time. You might inconvenience paying users though.
If you really want to prevent piracy, you have to go with a strong DRM solution like Brightcove. Be prepared to pay ten to fifty times as much for hosting (Brightcove is set up only for really large corporate customers, who get much better rates than us commoners).
Making the web work for you, Alec
