I have a video player that loads progressive flv video from a server and applies a reflection to it. I do this by creating a bitmapData object and then drawing the video to it. This worked absolutely fine until we moved our content from testing server to Amazon S3. Now there is no reflection.
Can anyone explain why this is happening and even suggest a solution?
p.s. i am using Flash 8 AS2.
thanks
This most likely has to do with Flash player's security restrictions and domains. If you aren't getting any errors, try installing the debug version of the player and see what comes up.
Also take a look to Handling Crossdomain.xml and 302 Redirects Using NetStream for background info.
HTH
Juan
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I am displaying a video with the html5 video element. The source is a pre-signed url from Wasabi s3. It works well on Chrome but it won't play on Safari. I did some research and it seems like this is usually due to the server not being configured to return a 206 code. However, I did check the server and it seems to support byte-range requests.
Here is the network tab. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, it seems like I usually get stuck on those minuscule problems. Turns out that Safari, unlike Chrome, doesn't like to play files without file extension. Adding ".mp4" to my files solved the problem...
So guys, how do I prevent users from downloading audio files on my web app (running springboot in backend) by accessing the s3 url !
I want to make it impossible to download the audio files in my website ! Any suggestions pls ?
I assume you mean that you want to make it impossible to download the audio files, but still allow streaming them for playback.
You can't.
If it can be played, it can be downloaded. Simple as that.
At best, you can sign your S3 URLs so that they expire after a short period of time. This gives you control over who accesses your audio files, and prevents them from showing up in searches, or linked to from other sites. You can also look into Encrypted Media Extensions, but it's not all that useful for audio since audio is trivially digitally captured on the output.
I am playing a video in my app, the video is a HLS streaming which i am fetching from my remote server. And i need a functionaltiy to take the screenshot of currently playing video but i am not able to do the same, i checked the documentation apple is saying you can take the screenshot if you are playing a video if you are playing a video from LOCAL URL or LOCAL FILE and you can not take a screenshot if you are playing a video from remote stream.
I am kind of stuck on this issue, i tried several methods discussed on stack overflow and other sites but nothing worked.
Please help,
Thanks
We have a red5 recorder/red5 server setup. This is working correctly and videos are getting created in the server. We are having a problem with the recording and playback etc not working in a streamlined way. ie after you record and play the recorded one, it may not always play. The player sort of gets stuck.
Are there any free or paid alternatives to red5 recorder that does the job really well?
The reason why the videos don't play can vary and it is not sure if another streaming server will resolve your issue. For example if you have network issues no matter what streaming server you use, it will fail.
However, alternatives might be Wowza or Adobe FMS.
Sebastian
Maybe you are suffering from the same problem I have, see:
WARN o.r.s.net.rtmpt.BaseRTMPTConnection - Response buffer was null after encoding
Are there any warnings in your log file after the stream did fail? This log file may reveal your problem, see /usr/local/red5/log/red5.log
I'm a C programmer and a total newbie to Flash/video/web world. Don't know where/how to start, and so would greatly appreciate your initial help.
Question
If I need to host flash videos off of my website (instead of embedding YouTube links on my webpages),
AND
If I need to provide player API like YouTube's that can be used, say, for supporting chromeless player versions customizable via this custom API of mine...
THEN
What do I need to do essentially...?
Write a custom Flash video player?
If yes, how? I mean, using which Adobe products / tools / SDKs / language(s)?
Is there anything free/opensource available for doing this? Especially, for Linux platform?
Write a new browser (firefox) plugin for users visiting my site?
Not sure how my custom Flash video player will get to the user visiting my site for the first time?
Any books, resources that cover this problem well?
Does the Flash content need to hosted off of a Windows server only?
Currently lost. Thanks in advance,
/SD
Flash has video playback support built-in, so all you need to do is use the Flash authoring environment or Flex to compile a .SWF file that uses the video API, with some buttons to stop and start the stream, volume, seeking, anything else you want your player to do.
Many people have already done this for you, in a way you can easily use from simple HTML. See eg. OSFLV, Flowplayer, JW...
Write a new browser (firefox) plugin for users visiting my site? Does the Flash content need to hosted off of a Windows server only?
Lord no! Flash video would never have taken off if it was just another custom-server+custom-plugin piece of unpleasantness. Though special streaming servers are possible, for the most part it's just an FLV file sitting on a web server.
(FLV is the video format supported by the Flash video playing functions. There are many, many tools you can use to convert other formats to it; I use Avidemux.)
If you are planning to use a "Progressive Download" approach, then your FLV files can be hosted on a Windows or a Linux box. Be aware that:
it is no as efficient as true
streaming.
you may not use it for live events
nor only for stored video files.
it cannot automatically detect the
end user's connection speed.
it is not possible to jump ahead to
another part while it's downloaded.
the video file will be saved on the
end user's computer.
If you are planning to use a "Streaming" approach then you can either buy and use Adobe's solution (Flash Media Server, available on both Windows and Linux box) or sign up for a hosted solution. On this page you will find recommended providers by Adobe. I personally have been using Influxis's hosting with success for a couple of years already.
You can also write your own streaming server but that would be a lot of hard work. If you are interested in that, I would recommend you have a look a Red5 which is an open source Flash Server written in Java.