VOD

The VOD API requires cloud storage for VOD to be configured on your server nodes.

• List cloud storage HLS content
• List cloud storage media files content
• Cloud storage VOD subscribe
• List active VOD
• List active VOD with stats

List cloud storage HLS content

Description

Returns list of HLS playlists (m3u8) available on cloud bucket (S3 etc) for playback. These media files are created when a live stream is recorded on Red5 Pro with the 'record' parameter and then moved to cloud storage by Red5 Pro's cloud-storage plugin.

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/{scopeName}/playlists OR

  http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/{scopeName}/playlists/{subscope}

  If your content was recorded at a sub-scope level of an application, you will need to specify the sub-scope path at the {subscope} placeholder.

• Method: GET

RESPONSE

• Failure: HTTP CODE 400 or 404
• Data :

    {
      "errorMessage": "<error-message-string>",
      "timestamp": <error-timestamp>
    }

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "playlists": [
        {
          "name": "<playlist-name>",
          "lastModified": <last-modified>,
          "length": <vod-duration>,
          "url": "<playlist-url>"
        }
      ]
    }

Example

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/live/playlists
• Method : GET

RESPONSE

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "playlists": [
        {
          "name": "stream1.m3u8",
          "lastModified": 1475674784000,
          "length": 210,
          "url": "https://red5vodpro.s3.amazonaws.com/live/stream1/stream1.m3u8"
        }
      ]
    }

List cloud storage media files content

Description

Returns list of FLV and MP4 media files available on cloud storage bucket (S3 etc) for playback. These media files are created when a live stream is recorded on Red5 Pro with the record parameter and then is moved to cloud storage by the Red5 Pro cloud-storage writer Post-Processor.

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/{scopeName}/mediafiles OR

  http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/{scopeName}/mediafiles/{subscope}

  If your content was recorded at a sub-scope level of an application, you will need to specify the sub-scope path at the {subscope} placeholder.

• Method: GET

RESPONSE

• Failure: HTTP CODE 400 or 404
• Data:

    {
      "errorMessage": "<error-message-string>",
      "timestamp": <error-timestamp>
    }

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "mediafiles": [
        {
          "name": "<media-name>",
          "lastModified": <last-modified>,
          "length": <duration>,
          "url": "<media-url>"
        }
      ]
    }

Example

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/live/mediafiles
• Method : GET

RESPONSE

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "mediafiles": [
        {
          "name": "stream1.flv",
          "lastModified": 1475674784000,
          "length": 1519198,
          "url": "https://red5vodpro.s3.amazonaws.com/live/streams/stream1.flv"
        }
      ]
    }

Cloud storage VOD subscribe

Description

Requests stream-manager for a suitable edge server for media subscription. This is valid for FLV and MP4 media files only and is applicable when using the cloud-storage plugin. The media files are stored on cloud bucket and played back through Red5 Pro.

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/{scopeName}/{streamname}.{extension}
• Method: GET

RESPONSE

• Failure: HTTP CODE 400 or 404
• Data :

    {
      "errorMessage": "<error-message-string>",
      "timestamp": <error-timestamp>
    }

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "name": "<media-name>",
      "scope": "<scope>",
      "serverAddress": "<edge-server-addess>",
      "region": "<region-code>"
    }

Example

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/live/mystream.flv
• Method : GET

RESPONSE

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      "name": "mystream.flv",
      "scope": "live",
      "serverAddress": "104.199.230.92",
      "region": "asia-east1"
    }

List active VOD

Description

Lists all VOD streams which have active subscribers.

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/list
• Method: GET

RESPONSE

• Failure: HTTP CODE 400 or 404
• Data:

    {
      "errorMessage": "<error-message-string>",
      "timestamp": <error-timestamp>
    }

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
      [
      {
        "serverAddress": "<edge-server-addess>",
        "name": "<media-name>",
        "type": "<media-type>",
        "scope": "<scope>"
      }
    ]
    }

Example

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/1.0/media/list
• Method : GET

RESPONSE

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    {
    [
      {
        "serverAddress": "104.199.230.92",
        "name": "sample.flv",
        "type": "flv",
        "scope": "live"
      }
    ]
    }

List active VOD with stats

Description

Lists all VOD streams which have active subscribers along with the subscriber count.

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/list/stats
• Method: GET

RESPONSE

• Failure: HTTP CODE 400 or 404
• Data:

    {
      "errorMessage": "<error-message-string>",
      "timestamp": <error-timestamp>
    }

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    [
      {
        "currentSubscribers": <current-subscribers>,
        "serverAddress": "<edge-server-addess>",
        "name": <media-name>,
        "type": <media-type>,
        "scope": <scope>
      }
    ]

Example

REQUEST

• URI: http://{host}:{port}/streammanager/api/3.1/media/list/stats
• Method : GET

RESPONSE

• Success: HTTP CODE 200
• Data:

    [
      {
        "currentSubscribers": 1,
        "serverAddress": "104.199.230.92",
        "name": "sample.mp4",
        "type": "mp4",
        "scope": "live"
      }
    ]