I need a software to stream mp3 files and give me API or something that I can use it to show which track is now being played. Actually I have create an Online Radio with offline file source and showing playlist in frontend or player.
I've tried Windows media Encoder, Microsoft Expressions Encoder and IceCast and no one of them does what I need.
Is there any suggestions?
IceCast + ezStream did the job.
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I want to play the video simultaneously while it is downloading via unitywebrequest. Will AVPro video support this? If so please provide me some guidance, as i am new to unity and avpro video. I can able to play the video which is downloaded fully through FullscreenVideo.prefab in AVPro demo. Any help will be much appreciated.
There are two main options you could use for displaying the video while it is still downloading.
Through livestream
You can stream a video to AVPro video using the "absolute path or URL" option on the media player component, then linking this to a stream in rtsp, MPEG-DASH, HLS, or HTTP progressive streaming format. Depending on what platforms you will be targeting some of these options will work better than others
A table of which file format supports what platform can be found in the AVProVideo Usermanual that is included with AVProVideo from page 12 and onwards.
If you want to use streaming you also need to set the "internet access" option to "required" in the player settings, as a video cannot stream without internet access.
A video that is being streamed will automatically start/resume playing when enough video is buffered.
This does however require a constant internet connection which may not be ideal if you're targeting mobile devices, or unnecessary if you're planning to play videos in a loop.
HLS m3u8
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) works by cutting the overall stream into shorter, manageable hunks of data. These chunks will then get downloaded in sequence regardless of how long the stream is. m3u8 is a file format that works with playlists that keeps information on the location of multiple media files instead of an entire video, this can then be fed into a HLS player that will play the small media files in sequence as dictated in the m3u8 file.
using this method is usefull if you're planning to play smaller videos on repeat as the user will only have to download each chunk of the video once, which you can then store for later use.
You can also make these chunks of video as long or short as you want, and set a buffer of how many chunks you want to have pre-loaded. if for example you set the chunk size to 5 seconds, with a buffer of 5 videos the only loading time you'll have is when loading the first 25 seconds of the video. once these first 5 chunks are loaded it will start playing the video and load the rest of the chunks in the background, without interrupting the video (given your internet speed can handle it)
a con to this would be that you have to convert all your videos to m3u8 yourself. a tool such as FFMPEG can help with this though.
references
HLS
m3u8
AVPro documentation
I want to encode the audio file (mp3, mp4, m4a, ogg) for the streaming and want to play (I want to play encoded file smoothly) using the HTML5 player but I think HTML5 player.
So now what I am doing, I am uplaoding a file and econding this file on windows Azure Media Services using the preset "AAC Good Quality Audio". It encode the file with .mp4 file format and then I create SAS locator to run this file, it works well but the problem is that user can download it too which I don't want to allow.
If I create the OnDemandOrigin locator of the same encoded asset, it gives me 404 erroe. It means we can not play it.
Below are the steps that I have used to upload the file on Azure Media Services:
Created the empty assest.
Upload the file into the asset.
Then create the new task job to encode the audio file.
I have successfully encoded the file but when I try to generate the origin url it generate the url but when I browse the file I get
the error 404.
My queries:
"AAC Good Quality Audio" preset is the right for my task?
How can I restrict the user to download the file, if I use sas locator.
Is it possible to play the encoded file using origin locator.
Can I encode audio files for smooth streaming ? If I can then which player I should use to run the encoded file for all browsers, IOS devices and android devices.
If you want further details please feel free to ask me.
Awaiting your response.
Thanks
If your user is able to listen to the audio you're publishing, they will also be able to download the file. This you can not prevent. At best, you can make it difficult, but not impossible. More to the point, Media Services at its current incarnation has no way for you to do authorization of any kind, so the only tool you've got is time-bombed SAS locators.
The typical solution for this problem is to use DRM. Media Services supports PlayReady encryption, but you need to either have a PlayReady server or purchase it as a service (there is currently a service in the Azure Marketplace that provides PlayReady for a monthly price).
See following article how to protect assets with Microsoft PlayReady technology
Origin Locators are something you would use to publish a Smooth Stream or HLS asset. It is not useful for regular media files, as it is internally something equivalent to an IIS Media Services endpoint. For regular media files, you can just as well host them in Blob Storage -- and refer to them via the SAS locator.
There is currently no single format that will play across all devices and operating systems. You can get Smooth Streaming to work on most Windows and Mac computers (possibly Linux, too), either with Silverlight or with the Smooth Streaming Plugin for the Flash-based OSMF. For iOS devices you will need to encode to HLS and use the HTML5 video tag. Microsoft Media Platform will support MPEG-DASH, a recently ratified ISO/IEC standard for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP.More details how to use DASH preview feature can be found here
If you want smooth streaming for audio only, it looks like you will have to create a video asset with an empty video stream -- although there is a Uservoice request to add support for audio only in the future.
so I have a flash video recorder that uses Red5 media server. After recording the video, it saves an FLV file to the Red5 RTMP server. My question is, if I wanted to use just a regular free FLV player (JWPlayer) would I just use the regular player and set the video source as something like rtmp://domain.com/recorder/streams/test.flv ? Or would I set the player to use single rtmp stream with this player builder? http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=204 I dont know if that requires some actual streaming app in rtmp. Thanks.
I think there is no "OR" in what you could do. It results in the same thing.
If you want to stream the FLV from the server you specify an URL that starts with "rtmp".
I guess the link will just exactly do that. However you can of course also configure your FLV player manually.
I dont know if that requires some actual streaming app in rtmp. Thanks.
=> Usually FLV players can play a rtmp stream. But of course you need a Red5 server and the FLV must be available in the streams directory of the webapp. Similar to:
rtmp://domain.com/recorder/streams/test.flv
Usually you could specify the URL also with: rtmp://domain.com:1935/recorder/test[.flv]
recorder is the webapp.
test[.flv] is the file you want to stream (It might be that "test" is enough, without the .flv suffix)
no need to put "streams" into the URL to stream the video. "streams" in the default folder for the video in Red5, comparable to your FLV_VIDEO_ROOT directory of this webapp "recorder".
I am using Flash Media server 4.5 and i read the tutorial if i want to stream the live feed, i may need to use the media live encoder. but what i found in media encoder is i have to manually setup everything and it only support camera devices.
But in my case i have multiple video files keep received from another program, my goal is use the Flash Media server to perform a live boardcasting with these video file one by one.
That means when client watching the streaming, they will not notice the server is play mov1, then mov2, then mov4, then mov5... and so on.
Also can FMS dynamically create a new streaming session (invoke by code), so that when client A uploading some video files to the server, the FMS open a new streaming session only stream cilent A video files?
Can FMS achieve such purposes? any tutorial provided would be very helpful!
Edit for Open Bounty
I want to basically deliver a live stream of video where a list of videos are source. I am currently using Flash Media Server with Cloudfront CDN to deliver content. So if I have video1, video2, and video3. I want to play them back to back as a live stream (so no skipping ahead in video), is it possible to do this? Bounty goes to clever workaround. Think of this as a television channel.
i have been working on the live streaming technologies for the past 1and half year . There is no option in flash live encoder for any file encoding.
1.To encoder your file you can use your dvd player devices or some thing else which supports usb devices playback options.and use the dvd player output to broadcast using flash media live encoder.
2.And the another set is to setup windows media encoder that supports file encoding(no need od dvd player) but it supports only windows media services.
At present i live webcast video file in this way only for my company http://www.malar.tv/live.php
I would like to use a .m3u8 playlist containing remote mp4 files with MPMoviePlayerController, did you success with this ?
Does the .m3u8 must contain .ts file ?If not what is the purpose of .ts ?
Does next / previous buttons will be enable once the playlist be loaded ?
If not, what is the purpose of these buttons ?
And last question, do you have a .m3u8 sample file with remote mp4 file to test ?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Thierry
Since you're talking about .m3u8 and .ts files, can I assume you're interested in HTTP Live Streaming, as supported by iPhone OS 3.0 and Snow Leopard? There is more info about HTTP Live Streaming in the documentation.
In HTTP Live Streaming, the .m3u8 file lists other files that are to be downloaded and played in order. If the .m3u8 file doesn't contain an #EXT-X-ENDLIST directive, then the client assumes the source is a live stream, and periodically re-fetches the .m3u8 to find new media files to download. The .ts files are MPEG-2 trasnsport stream files that contain muxed audio and video (despite the fact that the transport stream is part of the MPEG-2 spec, the contents should be H.264 and AAC, the audio and video codecs usually associated with MPEG-4). You sometimes see other contents, like .aac for audio-only streams. A server will segment a video stream into many .ts files, the .m3u8 file will provide URLs for these .ts files, and a client will download and play the .ts files in order. As an iPhone developer, all you have to do is provide the .m3u8 URL to the MPMoviePlayerController, which will handle the rest.
Don't know about the prev/next buttons... don't seem like they'd make sense in a stream context, and I'm not sure whether the the MPMoviePlayerController even shows them. You can use the movieControlMode property to set what controls are offered to the user.
Apple's docs provide links to some sample test pattern streams.