I'm guessing this request handling is done by mod_jithttp.so and maybe mod_hlshttp.so.

Are these open source? If so, where can the source be found?

Thanks

Hi, you sure may.

I'm using:

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -re -i "rtmp://localhost/${input}/_definst_/${flashStream} live=1" -acodec libfaac -ar 44100 -ab 48k -vcodec libx264 -vpre ipod -f flv rtmp://localhost/${output}/${iosStream}?adbe-live-event=liveevent

The input stream is comming from an actionscript flash app. The encoding is H.264 baseline or main, profile 3.0 or 3.1, 12fps, speex sound any freq, usually I use 44KHz.

I can play the output stream using the f4m on OSMF, and I can also play the output rtmp using ffplay. Sometimes (when I can download the m3u8 ) I can also play the hls stream both on the idevices and using ffplay.

Thank you very much for your help.

I also thought of that.

So I made the following test, published a stream, asked the HDS and HLS files, and retired over and over again for a few minutes.

But what I kind of realized is that if I can't get the file on the first try (at the same time with the HDS) I wont be able to get it ever.

Well, actually on one of the tests, after canceling the stream, I was able to download the m3u8.

So I checked the server' stream file size (inside livepkgr/streams...) for one of the successful tests, which was about 5MB.

By successful test I mean the tests when I was able to download the m3u8 without problems.

And, for the tests that failed, I waited for the server stream file to get to the same size (5MB) before attempting to download the m3u8.

Unfortunately it still failed even after file grew passed that size.

The funny thing is that the HDS/f4m stream is always available. Is there a reason why the m3u8 could fail when I can watch the stream via the f4m normally?

They do come from the same file under livepkgr/streams right?

Since the fms hls-live plugin doesn't seem to be working, I decided to try the hls-vod with not much better results.

I'm getting this unbelievable error when asking a vod wither using http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp/# or an iOS device.

I have for example an url like

http://xyz.cloudfront.net/hds-vod/ios_livestream20.mp4.f4m

or like

http://xyz.cloudfront.net/hls-vod/ios_livestream20.mp4.m3u8

osmf says "We are having problems with the playback..." and the iOS devices just say "404 file not found".

So I tried to copy the file from the server using scp which works just fine, and the file also plays without a problem.

Checking the Apache log I found the error:

[Wed Jun 20 04:36:26 2012] [error] [client x.y.z.w] File does not exist: /mnt/webroot/hls-vod

in the case of the iOS devices, and in the case of the osmf I found:

[Wed Jun 20 04:39:51 2012] [error] mod_jithttp [404]: [err=1] /mnt/webroot/vod/ios_livestream20.mp4 does not exist

Now, "/mnt/webroot/hls-vod" does not exist. But that should not be a problem the files are actually placed into /mnt/webroot/vod.

I suppose that this is somehow related to the /hls-vod mapping in the apache httpd.conf

<Location /hds-vod>

    HttpStreamingJITPEnabled true

    HttpStreamingContentPath "/mnt/webroot/vod"

    HttpStreamingJITConfAllowed true

    JitFmsDirPath ".."

    Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks

</Location>

But that also does not help undestand the error, in my opinion...

But even more ridiculous is the error "/mnt/webroot/vod/ios_livestream20.mp4 does not exist", as an ls shows it does:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 fmsuser fmsgroup 2.2M Jun 20 04:31 /mnt/webroot/vod/ios_livestream20.mp4

And if it didn't how could scp copy it?

Any ideas why this is happening?

Being this a service provided by amazon, are they the ones resonsible for the support, or am I asking at the right place?

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

The image was already remade once. The configuration is whatever amazon uses by default on their images.

I just added one app under "/mnt/applications" and a cgi under "/opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/".

As for it being a cache problem, I tried a few atempts to get the files from the virtual host using for ex:

wget http://localhost/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/ios_livestream2 8.m3u8

and I got on the apache log:

[Wed Jun 20 06:46:44 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /mnt/webroot/hls-live

Actually, the hls-vod seems to work most of the time, unlike hls-live which fails most of the time.

What I'm doing right now is to transmit a RTMP stream to livepkgr, and when the stream finishes I copy the file to /mnt/webroot/vod.

This seems to work ok for iOS devices, but what I want is live streaming support.

On the other hand, while the stream is being recorded, it seems almost impossible to get it from the server. (even if I try from the server)

Do you think it the reasoning you gave also makes sense even when getting the file from the localhost fails?

Thanks

Hello,

well I'm happy to say that it's working now. Why? Don't know.

Given the closed source nature of the plugins and their lack of understandable output, it's was really hard to debug what was going on.

So I can't pinpoint what corrected the situation, but now it works so I won't even try to understand it why (at least not right now).

Better just create an image as-is and think about it if it happens again.

Nevertheless thanks for trying to help.

Paulo