Written by Simon Bailey

I had a head banging moment last night trying to help a mate out to stream an FLV from Akamai (also seen on Wowza) using the latest Spark VideoPlayer component. We had a working flv streaming in the old mx:VideoDisplay absolutely fine, update the component to the Spark equivalent and nothing, nowt, nada, not even a glimmer?

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// OLD MX COMPONENT - WORKS FINE
<mx:VideoDisplay source="rtmp://myserver.com/my_application/my_stream.flv" />

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// NEW SPARK COMPONENT - DOES NOT WORK!!
<s:VideoDisplay source="rtmp://myserver.com/my_application/my_stream.flv" />

My first thought was I that when the component was upgraded, the syntax was changed for defining the source string? After a chat with Stefan he also mentioned that as the VideoPlayer/VideoDisplay is now built on OSMF this would most likely be the case.

I then started looking through the docs to find out what the syntax is for streaming an FLV in the latest spark components (a fairly common practice I would have thought), damned if it was a quick find for me! The typical example I found was as below:

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source="rtmp://fmsexamples.adobe.com/vod/mp4:_cs4promo_1000.f4v"

Then we started playing with DynamicStreamingVideoSource and I stumbled over the thought that I should dig into OSMF documentation more and eventually found the solution but buggered if I can find it again and I flippin’ forgot to bookmark (there may be alternatives but this worked):

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// WORKS!!!
<s:VideoDisplay source="rtmp://myserver.com/my_application/?streamName=my_stream&streamType=flv" />