Can you please explain to me what the advantages of using an RTMP server over Webserver is.

How do we configure the usage? it says to "Note: This BASE should be pointed to jMediaDirect directory
hint: symbolic link comes in handy."

what does this mean?

Does jVideoDirect have a RTMP plugin built in?


IF not what do you recommend we use?

How about Cloudfront is it possible to use this?

thanks for all replies

well, practically RTMP server will stream video without downloading the whole file.

We simulate the same by using MP4Box to move the moovatom the front of a video for webserver.

so RTMP is just another option for users to choose from.

RTMP option is ready to use in jvideodirect but you need to build a RTMP server along with it.

If you have the RTMP server and the video storage at cloudfront that you can use it.

you need to point the rtmp base to jMediaDirect directory

I have a FMS server and I was wondering if there is any documentation on setting this up?

unfortunately we don't.

But it is not so difficult.
once you have setup your server, just point the base to jMediaDirect folder and tell jvideodirect at the backend where is your base.

an it should work

Thank you for the quick reply

I have am using a RTMP system based on Cloudfront with my files stored on S3

The videos needed to be linked as being directly in the main folder of the RTMP server

So when the jwplayer tries to play the file it looks for the file in



or




and not




or




i managed this by changing in components/com_jvideodirect/plugins/jwflvplayer/player.php



to




Apart from that for jVideoDirect to function properly is there anything I need to change in that file?

or maybe in another file, regarding uploading the videos to the s3 maybe?

you are absolutely right, we have overlook this part.

thank you for your help.

This set up seems to have cause a problem with the embedding, the embedding uses the filename on the S3 server instead of the video title in the database so for this makes it impossible to set up BB codes. How can I rectify this,

Example the video file is called SKHI9DHJKD93KDJ93DID3NKDDI3ND90CU3.mp4 in my s3 server but in my urls its

I want to use the video code s92js9x9xj9e in the embed file instead of the file name, so i can create a similar BB CODE to the popular
for embedding, but the embed code uses the video filename and not the video code.

how can i fix this?

thanks