Streaming flv files

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:00:22AM +0200, Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using the following flash player and Nginx 0.6.3:
> http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player
> 
> with his example video in the banner. Everything works fine when I
> don't use flv_module, but as soom as I activate it, the video doesn't
> play anymore.
> 
> Where could that come from?
> 
> I also tested this flash player:
> http://bluebird.univ-reunion.fr/fms/proto/flv-stream-player/, and it
> doesn't work any better.
> 
> Here is my Nginx configuration file:
> ---
> #user  thomas;
> worker_processes  1;
> 
> events {
>   worker_connections  1024;
> }
> 
> http {
>   include             mime.types;
>   default_type        application/octet-stream;
> 
> server {
>   listen        80;
>   set $limit_rate 10k;
> 
>   error_log     /Users/thomas/flv_stream/flv_stream.log notice;
> 
>   location / {
>     root      /Users/thomas/flv_stream;
>     index     index.html;
>   } # End of location
> 
>   location ~ \.flv$ {
>     flv;
>   } # End of location
> 
>   } # End of server
> }

Look in an error_log. Probably you need to add "root":

   location ~ \.flv$ {
       root      /Users/thomas/flv_stream;
       flv;
   }


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