Live stream only plays every few attempts
Apologies if this has been covered before, but there are a number of factors at play so I've had a difficult time searching. I have a SD live stream coming from a Wowza 3 EC2 instance. It plays fi...
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This should be an SD stream off the source, but I'll confirm that. I do have the following set in my Roku app, and I'll adjust to make sure the source is in fact SD, as I has assumed. Could that cause the issue I'm seeing or is that more to eliminate potential issues and follow best practices?
item.StreamBitrates = 800
item.StreamQualities = "SD" ' changing this to ["HD"] for now
The CPU on the encoder (I'm using an encoding appliance) is about 40%. I get the same result on the Roku by turning off all encoding jobs except this one. A Wowza EC2 instance sits in between and is at about 21% peak. Both have tons of bandwidth to spare (I'm using about 2 mbit of a 7 mbit pipe) from the encoder to EC2.
The encoder is set to constant bitrate, would I see better behavior from a variable bitrate? Would changing the Bitrate itself help?
I'll follow up shortly after testing the SwitchingStrategy in about an hour when I'm back in front of the device.
Thanks for the suggestions...I know I'm close since I can eventually get it to play if I just press play enough times.
item.StreamBitrates = 800
item.StreamQualities = "SD" ' changing this to ["HD"] for now
The CPU on the encoder (I'm using an encoding appliance) is about 40%. I get the same result on the Roku by turning off all encoding jobs except this one. A Wowza EC2 instance sits in between and is at about 21% peak. Both have tons of bandwidth to spare (I'm using about 2 mbit of a 7 mbit pipe) from the encoder to EC2.
The encoder is set to constant bitrate, would I see better behavior from a variable bitrate? Would changing the Bitrate itself help?
I'll follow up shortly after testing the SwitchingStrategy in about an hour when I'm back in front of the device.
Thanks for the suggestions...I know I'm close since I can eventually get it to play if I just press play enough times.
