Hi guys,
We are trying to play a livestream from the device on a web interface using Backendless SDK on the device. We start the livestream on the device we get this url rtmp://media.backendless.com:1935/mediaAppLive/definst/stream1 but after we cannot find any player to play the livestream on the web.
Are we doing something wrong?
Please advice.
Many thanks,
I do no think there is any player for a web interface on a mobile device. You’d need to use native code to play RTMP streams.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Mark,
Maybe i did not make myself very clear 
So want to want is to start the stream on a device(iOS) and to see the livestream on a website(chrome/safari). To do this we used the backendless SDK we start the stream on an iphone and as far as we investigated we have an url like this one for the livestream, for example:
rtmp://media.backendless.com:1935/mediaAppLive/definst/stream1
But we could not find a solution to play this on the website. Do we need a special player? How should we make this work?
Please advise.
Thanks,
Kind regards,
Lucian,
I understood you very well. I am not aware of any solution to play the RTMP player on a website without a browser plugin. You’re welcome to explore and see if there is a flash (or any other kind of) player that would play the rtmp stream for you. We do not provide such a player.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the prompt response. Much appreciate it. You mention a browser plugin can you tell us more about that. Is the url that we are using the correct one? We tried to play the livestream url from above in VLC(movie player) for example and still it did not work.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Kind regards,
Lucian,
Playing a stream in a browser-based player is not an officially supported function. It should be entirely possible, but it is outside of the free support scope. You’re welcome to inspect the code and figure out the URL by yourself:
https://github.com/Backendless/ios-SDK/tree/master/SDK/backendlessAPI/Classes/Media
Regards,
Mark