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Video not starting with RED5

Hello ! :-)

I finally managed to stream videos using JWPLAYER and RED5.

The only problem I have is that the first video never starts :
when I clic on the play button (or when I configure JWPLAYER to start automatically) the round shaped animation which shows that it is beginning starts, but it goes on endlessly and there is no video...
I have to clic again to have the video being played. Then, everything is ok with all videos.

Do you have an idea of what I can do to fix the problem or where to search ?

Thank you ! :)

Soleille

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JW Player

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By the way, I forgot to tell you that I'm using the oflDemo application.
I've looked inside /log/ofldemo.log but there are only 3 lines which have nothing to do with video streaming...

Thank you for your help ! :)

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Ethan Feldman

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Do you have a link?

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JW Player

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Hello ! :)

Here it is :
http://webclasse.re/gtr/intermediaire.html

Since I couldn't have the videos starting automtically I disabled this option. But if you clic on the menu items, you'll see the problem. :)

Thank you ! :)

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Ethan Feldman

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Can you remove this line from your embed code?

'streamer': 'rtmp://91.121.181.226/oflaDemo',


It is not needed, since you are using a playlist.

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JW Player

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Hello ! :)

I've tried this but it didn't make the videos start.

I've set "Autostart" to "true" so that I don't hev to clic twice on the menu items.
But then, I sometimes got this message :

Server not found :
rtmpt://91.121.181.226:80/oflaDemo

Is it normal that it is rtmpt and port 80 ?

Thank you ! :)

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Ethan Feldman

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Can I see?

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JW Player

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Well, I put a screenshot here :
http://webclasse.re/gtr/rtmpt80.jpg

It may happen sometimes. But you can easily reproduce this by clicking several times on the different items in the menu.

By the way, here is what I have in my files :

-xml files :

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:jwplayer="http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
<channel>
<title>Accompagner des chansons</title>
<item>
<title>La poupe qui fait non</title>
<description>Accompagner "La poupe qui fait non".</description>
<media:content url="la_poupee_qui_fait_non.flv" />
<jwplayer:provider>rtmp</jwplayer:provider>
<jwplayer:streamer>rtmp://91.121.181.226/oflaDemo</jwplayer:streamer>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

-html files :

<div align='center'>
<script type='text/javascript' src='jwplayer.js'></script>
<br/><br/>
<p align='center'>ACCOMPAGNER DES CHANSONS</p>
<div id='mediaspace'>Accompager des chansons</div>
<br/><br/><br/><br/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jwplayer('mediaspace').setup({
'flashplayer': 'http://webclasse.re/gtr/player.swf',
'playlistfile': 'http://webclasse.re/gtr/accompagner.xml',
'item': '0',
'playlist': 'right',
'autostart': 'true',
'controlbar': 'bottom',
'width': '520',
'height': '290'
});
</script>
</div>
<div align='center'>
<a href="accords.html">Les accords</a> |
<a href="arpeges.html">Des arpges</a> |
<a href="gammes.html">Les gammes</a> <br/><br/>
<a href="debutants.html">Jouer des musiques - niveau dbutants</a> |
<a href="intermediaire.html">Jouer des musiques - niveau intermdiaire</a> <br/><br/>
<a href="accompagner.html">Accompagner des chansons</a> |
<a href="basse.html">La guitare basse</a>
</div>

Thank you for your help ! :)

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Ethan Feldman

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Hm, I can’t replicate this. I did notice something though. The first two videos in your playlist work. The others do not though.

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JW Player

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i also having the same problem sometime song play from RED5 server
sometime it show
Server not found :
rtmpt://91.121.181.226:80/oflaDemo

Please Help

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Ethan Feldman

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Link?

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JW Player

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Hi,

I'm facing the same problem when using the XML playlist.

I autostart the first video and yet it won't start.

Even if I set autostart to false, the first click on the video or on the playlist or on the control won't start.

I have to manually click the 2nd time on the first video link in the Playlist to start it.

Here is the link:

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Ethan Feldman

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It autostarts for me…

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JW Player

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Hi,

Thanks Ethan. Means it is working.

But it is not working at my side on 2 different ISPs and 3 different Web Browsers ( Maxthon, Firefox & Chrome ).

Hmmm.. pretty strange. Could I have missed something or errors in the codes?

Here are my codes:

*HTML page*
bc.. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Playlist</title>
</head>
<body>

<script type='text/javascript' src='jwplayer/jwplayer.js'></script>
<div id='mediaplayer'></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer('mediaplayer').setup({
'flashplayer': 'jwplayer/player.swf',
'id': 'playerID',
'width': '650',
'height': '480',
'playlistfile': 'playlist/playlist.xml',
'playlist.position': 'right',
'playlist.size': '250',
'repeat': 'always'
});
</script>

</body>
</html>



*XML Playlist*
bc.. <rss version="2.0" xmlns:jwplayer="http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
<channel>
<title>RTMP Playlist</title>
<item>
<title>Video 1</title>
<description>Video 1</description>
<media:content url="toystory3.flv" />
<media:thumbnail url="http://domain/thumbs/thumb1.png" />
<jwplayer:provider>rtmp</jwplayer:provider>
<jwplayer:streamer>rtmp://domain:1935/oflaDemo</jwplayer:streamer>
<jwplayer:duration>20</jwplayer:duration>
</item>
<item>
<title>Video 2</title>
<media:content url="avatar.flv" />
<media:thumbnail url="http://domain/thumbs/thumb2.png" />
<description>Video 2</description>
<jwplayer:provider>rtmp</jwplayer:provider>
<jwplayer:streamer>rtmp://domain:1935/oflaDemo</jwplayer:streamer>
<jwplayer:duration>30</jwplayer:duration>
</item>
<item>
<title>Video 3</title>
<media:content url="FindNicheMarket.mp4" />
<media:thumbnail url="http://domain/thumbs/thumb3.png" />
<description>Video 3</description>
<jwplayer:provider>rtmp</jwplayer:provider>
<jwplayer:streamer>rtmp://domain:1935/oflaDemo</jwplayer:streamer>
<jwplayer:duration>40</jwplayer:duration>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>


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JW Player

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From the above code, you will noticed that I did not use autostart.

Still the issue is, THE FIRST CLICK will NOT start the video.

I have to click the 2nd time to start the video and thus the playlist.


I thought probably an autostart would resolve it. Nope. It has to be another manual click to start the playlist.

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JW Player

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here is my coding
<script type='text/javascript'>
jwplayer('container').setup({
'bufferlength': '10',
'smoothing' : 'false',
'quality':'best',
'autostart':'true',
'icons': 'true',
'allowscriptaccess': 'always',
'allownetworking': 'all',
'flashplayer': '/jwplayer/player.swf',
'file': 'toystory3.flv',
'streamer':'rtmp://domainName:1935/oflaDemo',
'image':'/jwplayer/logo.png',
'controlbar': 'bottom',
'width': '420',
'height': '270'
});
</script>

With this coding sometime AUTO start from RED5 server perfectly but some time the song from Red5 server unable to play showing the following error on jwplayer screen

rtmpt://domainName:80/oflaDemo

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Ethan Feldman

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@Azmanar Now on the link you have removed autostart – removed -

I do need to click twice for this to start playing.

@munikanta – Where are you running this?

Both of you – we have never supported Red5 officially…

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JW Player

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Hi Ethan.

Thanks. Even so true that RED5 is not supported officially, you have already been selfless in responding to our enquiries. That is a great deal and I appreciate that very much.

So it could likely be a compatibility issue that need to be addressed by Red5 developer communities then. May take time.

I'm not a techie, so I may have to abandon RED5 as a streamer, unless there are other flash players that are compatible to RED5.





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Ethan Feldman

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Np. I know that Real Helix server works with the player as well, I have tested it myself.

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JW Player

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Hi Ethan,

Thanks for the tips. I've seen Real Helix.

Can you do me a favor please and get rid of the IP Numbers in 2 posts of mine?

Thanks.

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Ethan Feldman

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Np. Which 2 posts?

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JW Player

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Hi Ethan,

In this thread.

My post -> Posted: Tue, 2012-06-12 15:14

Your post -> Posted: Wed, 2012-06-13 12:53

Thanks.

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JW Player

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Hi Ethan

Thanks for valuable tip

I heard that in jwplayer new version(5.4) By default jwplayer search
rtmpt port no 80 when slow connection to connect RED5 server
So,is there also in older version ??

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Ethan Feldman

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@munikanta – Np. I am not sure what you are asking though. 5.4 isn’t the new version, 5.9 is.

@Azmanar – I will make the edits.

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