From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Random access within a live .rm
No, you can't. The server just sends out the live feed as it receives
it, so you can't access parts of the feed that are already past.
If you want people to be able to watch the file that RealProducer is
writing out, you run into another snag -- you can't access a file until
it has been closed (the file headers written, etc.).
I *sort of* found a way around these limitations. I used the
RealServer's auto-archive capability to store the live feed in 1 minute
segments, then wrote a Java program that would generate custom SMIL
files to piece together those segments as needed. You could also do
this in Perl, C, etc., depending on available expertise. Use the
"pre-roll" techniques described in Real's docs somewhere (Real
Production Guide?) to minimize the space between the clips.
Rob
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Robert Whelan NesTek Development Corp.
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From: RealForum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 7:17 PM
Subject: Random access within a live .rm
From: "Jayanta K. Dey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random access within a live .rm
I am recording a live video feed using Real Producer. It is being
recorded
into a file and is
being transmitted into the RealServer. Thus the live broadcast can be
watched by a connected RealPlayer client.
Can a player watch any past segments of the file that is being recorded?
For
example, can the following url be used to watch a 3 second segment of
the live video.
rtsp://rmserver/encoding/live.rm?start=2&stop=5
Thanks,
--Jayanta
