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Stream Fallback functionality
Villiam 2020-04-15 09:59:10 UTC in Nimble Streamer
Hi,
I have a question about stream fallback functionality.
At this moment for testing purposes I have one main RTMP stream and one additional RTMP stream as backup. I set second RTMP stream as fallback. I am receiving main stream on VLC. When I stop main stream, if I understand correctly, fallback (backup) stream should take over without interruption on VLC. But this does not happened. It happens that main stream is stopped in VLC, and I have to pull stream again in VLC and then backup stream starts to be visible. It is possible that I don`t understand correctly whole concept. Is it idea if main stream is stopped (failed) that backup (fallback) stream take over without interruption?
Sergei 2020-04-15 10:41:15 UTC
Hello, Villiam.
That's correct. You have to reload player as stream became interrupted or switched on the fallback source. (Though it mainly depends on a player's resume algorithm, not Nimble.)
To get seamless switching, you can use Transcoder in hot-swap mode as described in the following documentation page:https://blog.wmspanel.com/2017/04/streams-failover-hot-swap-live-transcoder.html
Thank you.
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