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streaming adaptive playlist / protected acces

Hi there

I just recently aquired the premium edition and am trying the following:

several mp4 video are hosted on amazon s3.
those videos are in 720p quality.

I would like to stream them in adaptive mode, thus making them available in several qualities and for different bandwiths.

I added pipleines and elastics transcoding jobs.
I added cloudfront distributions.

1. so How do I embed those playlist files into the jwplayer ?

everytime I try to do it, it tells me the file is not available.
in most tutorials there seems to be a step missing. getting from the CF-distribution to the actual file-link that has to be put into the publishing wizard...

2. I also have to make sure the URLto the playlist is a signed URL, or some other kind of protection mechanism.
I wondered if making the bucket access restricted to the webserver IP would do any good ?
is the P that "reads" the files the one of the webserver or the client accessing the webserver ?

thanks in advance

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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1) This can be done with a SMIL manifest, we have a demo here – http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1430398-adaptive-rtmp-streaming

2) I am not sure if that would work, it might make the streams unreadable by the player itself.

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ondemand

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thx for the answers. SMIL manifests.
1. so to set this up with amazon I have to upload the sil manifest to the rigth bucket, as well as the xml for crossdomain access if I understand correctly ?

2. transcoding into m3u8 playlists will not work because why ?
(that was my starting point when I googled jwplayer , streaming and adaptive bandwith)

3. I seem to still miss the step from setting up the cloudfront-distribution to getting the actual link to the file that has to be streamed

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ondemand

User  
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smil manifest does not work either. error message is

manifest not found or invalid

but it can be downloaded via direct link (so its not missing)
and it´s written like your demo smil file fron another threda in these forums.

so whats wrong ?
demo-site:

http://ondemand.thecampus.de/demopage/

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
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http://s25qj59e3m2xku.cloudfront.net/intro/intro-playlist.m3u8

404 not found

http://s25qj59e3m2xku.cloudfront.net/intro/intro.smil

404 not found

None of your files actually work.

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