Might be a very generic question, but is there any way to specify stream key in the URL itself?

(query params or other?)

Well actually, let me make that question more generic.

I'm trying to stream using as low latency as possible (OBS inputting using RTMPS) and thought I could just specify the RTMP input URL to get the direct, non-HLS output. Is that accurate/possible?

We're using the Stream Player, and get intermittent reports from users that video doesn't load. We'd like to capture and log these errors to Sentry. If the video playback is manually controlled by the user through the iframe interface, do playback errors emit error events that I can listen for using the Stream Player API? Or is there a better way to catch/handle issues in the Stream Player?

I would have assumed so, but I see that the "play" event is emitted when using

player.play()

but is not emitted when clicking on the play button in the player. https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/viewing-videos/using-the-player-api/#example

Seems like an ISP problem super weird

can you drop me an email at zaid@cloudflare.com with details such as video id and example ip (if possible) of users reporting issues?

I am likely missing something. Can you help me understand how not needing to enter the stream key separately would help lower latency?

Hey. Yeah, confusing way of stating that, let me clarify. So I'm wanting to reduce latency. As part of this, I want to pull an output before it hits the HLS conversion (but still convert for users, just pull it before conversion for me so I can get low-latency output). I assume I could just pull the RTMP input, and that would be before HLS. Example: I assumed using

ffplay

on the RTMP with stream-key would pull the RTMP feed before HLS encoding. I was trying to use FFMPEG there, but couldn't figure out how to set the stream key. Separate issue from the above, and probably something basic I'm missing.

Do you just want an RTMP (or SRT) output? What is “non HLS” output to you in this case?

In this case just a plain RTMP output, yeah. Basically I have no need of HLS encoding for this specific consumer, but I do need as low-latency as possible and HLS adds like 40 seconds, whereas I'm assuming an RTMP output would be fairly low-latency.

I've seen latencies of like a few seconds on an NGINX RTMP server I used to run myself.

I saw that Stream can multicast but that requires a server on the other end, correct?

Correct. But mark May 14th on your calendar - what you fundamentally want is "RTMP+SRT pull" so that you can pull from a RTMP capable client 🙂

cc/ @Zaid (Cloudflare) 🙂

Looking forward to it! Added to calendar 🙂

we are using stream and we are getting reports from users coming from spain that the video wont load with video.mpd is not available error message. anyone here getting the same error? the video plays fine for all other users

My understanding is the Images product is handled by the same team as the Stream product, so hopefully this is the right place: Will Cloudflare Images variants support the same properties as flexible variants in future? e.g. I would like to use the 'anim' property for a predefined variant. Thanks!

Hi, hopefully this is the right place for this question... We're looking to migrate from Vimeo and one of our requirements is to have access to different resolution .mp4 files. I've read about access to a downloadable 1080p file, but is there any way to (or any plan to enable) access other resolutions too?

Is a custom worker to rewrite urls the only way to get a custom domain going for the m3u8 urls?

yep. that's the case right now. not ideal, something we're looking into solving perhaps this year.

Only the highest resolution is available as a .mp4 file. Other resolutions accessible over .m3u8 though.

@rrnn would that be the same as rtmp and srv domains?? Custom worker? Can you find workers to non http stuff?

I don't know about the first part, but as for the rest, no Workers cannot proxy non-HTTP traffic at this time.

Can I cname the rtmp cloudflare one?

RTMP isn't HTTP so no

when I open iframe.videodelivery.net in England, I get a regular 404 but certs and everything are all good, if I open iframe.videodelivery.net in Spain, I get a 404 warning, but no certificates... can anyone (from spain?) confirm that this is the case? I've got a user in Spain unable to view content from Stream

@Rasmuoy can you email

zaid@cloudflare.com

?