Can’t play my live RTMP

Hi Oscar,

it appears that the issue is with your RTMP connection URL. Are you sure rtmp://example.com/live/ is your working RTMP server?

Is the server public? I can’t ping to it.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Oscar,

thank you for your input and screenshots. I see what you mean, please re-install the plugin from this ZIP file: https://foliovision.com/downloads/fv-wordpress-flowplayer-2.3.5.2.zip

It’s our latest dev version. Then insert the video like this:

[fvplayer src="rtmp://example.com/live/:test"]

That will make sure “test” is used and not “mp4:test”. If you only use this, it will assume mp4: automatically (as “test” has no file extension ), as that’s what’s needed most of the time:

[fvplayer rtmp="rtmp://example.com/live" rtmp_path="test"]

However when I do this, I can see that both “test” and “mp4:test” fail.

Also when I try to play the video on http://example.com:8080/ like you did, I don’t get anything either. I think there must be some other issue. Is this somehow only allowing your computer to playback? Or is the live stream currently off?

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Oscar,

unfortunately there is a bug in core Flowplayer (it’s already reported), if you still have the latest version of FV Flowplayer 6 installed please try using this:

[fvplayer rtmp="rtmp://example.com/live" rtmp_path="mp4:test"]

Or could you just post your exact RTMP URL so we can try it?

You can try to do the following to increase the RTMP buffer length in fv-wordpress-flowplayer/flowplayer/fv-flowplayer.min.js to avoid jittery performance:

Just addend this at end of the file after any } closing bracket:

flowplayer.conf.bufferTime = 6;

Make sure you clear your browser cache after you tweak this and please let us know if it helped. The default values is 3 (seconds) so putting in 6 or 10 should really improve the playback.. We might put it into the plugins settings if it helps.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Martin
Sorry for the delay… I’ve tested it with 6.0.3.7 and unfortunately didn’t work. Any Ideas?
I can send you the path for the stream if you want to try. The only version where it works is with 2.3.5.2
using the shortcode: [fvplayer src="rtmp://example.com/live/:test"]
Thank you

Hello Oscar,

at what time is the stream live? It appears to be 0-4 AM our time which is not very good for us.

It appears the issue is with parsing. Please try to change [fvplayer src="rtmp://{your-ip-here}/hls/:live"] into [fvplayer rtmp="rtmp://{your-ip-here}/hls/" rtmp_path="live" live="true"]

We only count on rtmp://{your-ip-here}/hls/{extension:}live but if there is no externsion, there is a problem. But I see we could detect the “:” symbol.

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Oscar,

the shortcode with rtmp and rtmp_path works for me, are you sure FV WordPress Flowplayer is on the latest version? That is 6.0.3.7.

Thanks,
Martin