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vod_live_loop=true

VOD capturing from AWS S3 or from other S3 compatible storage

VOD stream can be captured from file placed to AWS S3 storage. Comparing with VOD capture from local disk, file from external storage is downloaded and captured sequentally.

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• bucket is S3 bucket name
• sample.mp4 is file name

Operation flowchart

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1. Browser requests VOD capture from AWS file

2. WCS server sends request to AWS

3. File is downloaded to WCS server

4. WebRTC stream from file is sending to browser for playback

Set up

AWS S3 credentials configuration

To download files from AWS S3 bucket, S3 credentials must be set in flashphoner.properties fileSince build 5.2.939 it is possible to set the full file URL in S3 storage, this allows to capture VOD from other S3 storages (Digital Ocean, Selectel etc)

Digital Ocean Spaces URL example

vod://s3/https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/myspace/folder/file.mp4

Selectel URL example

vod://s3/https://s3.selcdn.ru/mystorage/file.mp4

Operation flowchart

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1. Browser requests VOD capture from AWS file

2. WCS server sends request to AWS

3. File is downloaded to WCS server

4. WebRTC stream from file is sending to browser for playback

Set up

S3 credentials configuration

AWS

To download files from AWS S3 bucket, S3 credentials must be set in flashphoner.properties file

aws_s3_credentials=zone;login;hash

Where

• zone - AWS region where bucket is placed
• login - Access Key ID
• hash - Secret Accesss Key

S3 credentials setting example:

aws_s3_credentials=eu-central-1;AA22BB33CC44DE;DhlAkpZ4adclHhbLwhTNL4hvWTo80Njo

Digital Ocean Spaces

To download files from DO Spaces set the credentials as

aws_s3_credentials=ams3;access_key;secret

Where

• ams3 - digitaloceanspaces.com subdomain
• access_key - storage access key
• secret - storage access secret code

Selectel

To download files from Selectel S3 set the credentials as

aws_s3_credentials=zoneru-1a;login;hashpassword

Where

• zone ru-1a - AWS storage region where bucket is placed
• login - Access Key ID
• hash - Secret Accesss Key

S3 credentials setting example:

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• user name
• password - password

Capturing VOD stream from file while it is downloading

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