Wait is there no way to just have the video player do only live streaming without recording?

Asking support if they can refund me since this doesn't fit my needs at all

That's something we are planning to do: live stream with player without recording. However, for now you may have to manually delete the VOD after your live session.

Alternatively, you can try WebRTC (without recording). Playback will work with the player

Right now I'm just going to use dolby's free tier

for the stream webhooks under "manage library", does cloudflare only send webhooks when processing is finished? are there any additional events to look out for (e.g. finished upload)? for videos with a

pctComplete

under 100, how often are notifications for these sent out? 😅

Hey all 👋, I’m working on a streaming solution from an Android app to a web app. I have a working solution that uses the Java org.webrtc library to create a Peer-to-Peer connection with a web app and stream the Android device screen, but we’re wanting to explore Cloudflare's options and features. Seeing a lot of examples of sending and receiving streams via js and html, but does anyone have a good example of sending a stream from an Android device to Cloudflare for viewing? Thanks for any help!

Looking at the org.webrtc API, if it has webrtc api, it should be able to do what js/html can do but in its native format. For broadcasting use case, you would need to do signaling over WHIP. For P2P usage, Calls would be the one you want to use but it is currently in private beta.

may i ask what are you using webhooks for?

sure! i am basically generating TUS upload URLs following the "Direct creator uploads" section of the documentation, and tracking the upload progress using the webhook subscription

from the documentation it appears that there is only 1 notification after the video "finishes processing", but an example shows a

pctComplete

value of

39

so I am bit confused right now

Ah, webhook is sent as soon as "video is ready to watch." In this case, the lowest resolution of the video and audio are ready, which is why you are seeing the webhook

Similar to youtube where 360p is ready first, but then 1080p and 4k might take a while

ah ok thanks

so if I'm getting this right there's no notifications for that particular video anymore after that one

If my memory serves, that's correct. Were you expecting another webhook when it is fully completed?

I think that would be useful and much better than the alternative of constantly polling the api for statuses

@Zaid have been trying to upload videos to stream using tus protocol through the demo https://codepen.io/cfzf/pen/wvGMRXe and creater a worker that return the upload header locations but getting the errors below.

@Mickie Betz I guess you can take it from me

If you'd like, we can enable sending a second webhook once the highest resolution is available. I'll need your account ID to do that (feel free to DM it to me)

I am using WebRTC in production capacity with OBS. Well, for stability wise, I believe it is stable enough. However, users have reported constant dropouts when using cellular data. I do not know where the problem stems, whether it's cloudflare or cell provider, but it is a concern that needs to be addressed. I am replacing Zoom Meetings with CF WebRTC.

Awesome thanks for info. I’ll post back w my own results to help others soon after I launch…. Thanks!!

Quality of stream is largely dependent on the host side. I can stream 6Mbps with 30 fps, h264. However, at 60 fps, even me viewing from my computer will start to have dropped frames. It's not my computer that can't encode fast enough, but CF isn't pacing the frames correctly

Sub second latency is validated, even in Canada and Eastern US. I am based at the West Coast

Super helpful info!! You rock

no problem. feel free to ask if you have more

Is there... a stream outage? 0_o

Hmm there are no incidents reported, but most of my videos are queues and stuck and not processing