live stream time zone selection

#1 08-26-2007, 02:36 AM

Hi all,
Anybody has experience with positioning a client on a specified time point in the stream so it could act as time zone selection ?

I'm using Helix Producer as encoder and Helix Server as streaming server.

All ideas are welcome.

Best regards

#2 08-26-2007, 10:42 AM

You may use SMIL metafiles to set positioning for a client. If course you will need a server-side script to generate such metafiles.

#3 08-26-2007, 09:55 PM

But I don't understand how can I position the client inside a live broadcast, since the Helix server doesn't keep the stream in the cache. It is just streamed to the currently connected clients and then gone.

Or am I mistaking something ?

Best regards,

#4 08-27-2007, 04:33 AM

Here is an example of the URL that is used to position a stream

rtsp://somehost.com/somedir/01012004.rm?title=01/01/2004-Sometitle&start=1:30&end=2:03:18

usually such URLs are put in a RAM or SMIL metafile, but it is not obligatory.

Clients only need to get a URL like this.