yes

he can help you with this question.

thanks!!

thanks 🙂

We have same issue with users reporting issues in Spain and uk. Even tried the backup url cloudflarestream.com. So far we traced it back to Telefonica group network which has many mobile providers under it.

Have another question about improving the initial stream starting quality. We have short 30days videos. When I watch a stream on safari for example on iPhone the quality starts all blurry and 5-7secs in it upgrades to better quality. However we need it to be good at the start but not have to preload the entire video. Also tried the bandwidthhint set to 1.8 but no difference. Anything can be done?

Sorry 30secs videos

Two options: get a .mp4 file from the dashboard or set

?clientBandwidthHint

to something higher like 10.

Ok Thks. Setting the hint to 2.2 seems to make the difference. We were trying to have many videos one after the other but it causes issues with each video being muted by default on safari as each video is in a separate iframe. Is that something that will change? For now we are having to use a different player hls.js and so we can switch out the video element source.

You're doing the right thing with changing the element source manually in your usecase. It sounds like you're really trying to optimize the experience here.

Is it possible to cache video from Cloudflare stream on workers? You can do this w/ images. I'm wanting to because $1 per minute of delivered content adds up quickly when you have thousands of people watching 10 minute videos.

If you're paying $10 every time somebody watches a 10 minute video it seems wayyyyy cheaper to just go self build the delivery service.

I think you got the pricing wrong 🙂 it's $1 per 1000 minutes.

^ which is 16.66 hours, by the way

LMAO

that makes more sense

Is it still possible to cache?

I suppose if the device was using HLS you could use the API to fetch that specific time the client wanted and cache it in the Cloudflare CDN using workers.

Can you do this? probably. Should you? probably not. Stream already manages cache for you and I think at scale it's unlikely that you will get cost savings by using Workers in the middle.

yeah that's fair! Does Cloudflare Stream re-encode videos and images to remove malicious content? My understanding is you can manipulate video/img files to execute malicious code.

Stream always re-encodes. Yes.

Is that for security though? or just for backend purposes.

Just as an FYI, I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. If that were the case, you could get a virus just from browsing the web and viewing an image. Outside of a 0-day I'd be very skeptical that you could be hacked from watching a video / viewing an image.

it's more software specific

But our backend sends content back to all sorts of clients on most platforms.

so it's best to re-encode.

yeah. also encoding allows you to have multiple resolutions etc for different devices

Not a stream question, but this is the closest relevant channel since they're mostly bundled. In Cloudflare images, can I set resolution restrictions on the image the end user can upload using Direct Creator Upload?

For example with profile images I don't want to pay to resize them to 400x400 everytime I want to use them, even with caching.

how far away is an improvement on the livestream video delay? I'm wanting to build a content platform, but 10-15s delay for livestreams isn't that workable. Video is great though!