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kelvis2000
Visitor
11 years ago

Amazon Cloudfront Web or RTMP for Roku?

I am trying to get my videos to stream properly, they are too slow now.
My videos are all at one bitrate & I am looking to get these videos so they do
not buffer and load fast, what would be my best option please?


Thanks

Kevin
Roku Developer Program

3 Replies

  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    11 years ago
    Roku doesn't support RTMP. The context where you would see that in relationship to Roku is if you are broadcasting a live stream, you would usually RTMP to a server that would convert the video to HLS and deliver that to Roku.

    - Joel
  • kelvis2000's avatar
    kelvis2000
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    Thank You RokuJoel!

    One last question please, in Cloudfront
    should I have some type of Cache enabled
    so my videos perform/play well?

    Again Thanks
    Kevin
  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    11 years ago
    I haven't worked with cloudfront directly myself, but I am pretty sure cloudfront _is_ a cache, it may have some other caching features you can enable or disable, probably has an expiration timeout you can set - how long the video stays in the cache before it is erased.

    - Joel