Streaming media filter (RTMP)

Filters ::: filter_rtmp
Maintained by FredFred Woolard, Lacey Vickery, Michelle Melton
Part of set RTMP.
Filters URLs beginning with rtmp:// and creates a Flowplayer player using their streaming plugin.
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The RTMP streaming media filter is used to replace links containing URLs beginning with rtmp:// with a Flowplayer media player using their rtmp plugin. It is contributed by Lacey Vickery and Fred Woolard, and Michelle Melton.

Page output is examined for anchor href values beginning with rtmp:// and ending with a supported extension (currently .mp3, .mp4, .flv, and .f4v). Qualifying links are replaced with a div tag containing 'data-' prefixed attributes that are subsequently used by the plugin's JavaScript module to apply a Flowplayer player to the div. The Adobe Flash Player browser plugin is required.

The plugin was developed to work with Adobe's Flash Media Server, but according to Flowplayer, their RTMP plugin should work with Wowza, and Red5 as well. The plugin has been tested successfully with Amazon's Cloudfront streaming service.

Playlists are supported (v1.3). See the Playlist resource plugin for more information.

Closed captions are supported (v1.4). See additional documentation.

Primitive and limited HTML5 video and audio tags are supported in v1.5 to work in conjunction with Wowza Streaming Engine's and Adobe's FMS' HLS features.

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  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Tue, 14 July 2015, 10:59 PM
    Anderson, will reply with direct message.
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Tue, 14 July 2015, 11:17 PM
    Anderson, in order to use the filter_rtmp plugin, you must have a streaming server to provide the media content, for example, Wowza Streaming Engine, or Adobe Media Server. These servers supply an RTMP protocol stream that can be viewed in Adobe's Flash browser plugin. The specific URL format will depend on the which server you use, and how it is configured. Once you have a URL configured for a media item, then you put that rtmp:// URL in Moodle anywhere there is an HTML editor (atto), create a link in the text. The filter will detect the tag with an href attribute beginning with rtmp://.
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Tue, 14 July 2015, 11:19 PM
    Anderson, see additional documentation here: https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Filters/rtmp
  • Anderson Hsu
    Anderson Hsu
    Wed, 15 July 2015, 7:14 AM
    Is it possible to setup a stream server by using centos 6.0 ? Thank you.
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Tue, 21 July 2015, 10:29 PM
    Anderson, I believe it is possible. For instance, searching with the words 'wowza centos' on your preferred search engine site will show several how-tos for installing Wowza Streaming Engine on CentOS.
  • Will Taylor
    Will Taylor
    Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 4:54 AM
    When might we anticipate a version for Moodle 2.9+ ? This is the only add-on delaying my upgrade, it's essential to my platform (thanks so much for it).
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Sat, 7 Nov 2015, 2:26 AM
    Will, I'd be glad to do a test on 2.9 and if it appears to be working, I'll change the plugin entry to indicate it will work with that version. If you are in a dire rush, then In the meantime you can load in a test instance if you have one to check it also. I don't believe much has changed as far as filters go, and the lib/flowplayer files all appear to be the same as those found in the current 2.8 release.
  • Gianluca Torbidone
    Gianluca Torbidone
    Wed, 2 Dec 2015, 9:53 PM
    I've tried with Moodle 3.0 but video doesn't load . Has someone tried with pos results? Thanks
  • Will Taylor
    Will Taylor
    Sun, 10 Jan 2016, 1:56 AM
    Am still looking for a version that will work in Moodle 2.9 or perhaps even 3.0 - will these be forthcoming? Thanks for this most excellent filter.
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Mon, 11 Jan 2016, 8:43 PM
    Will, the updated code is on github. Sorry, I've neglected putting updates in the Moodle plugins DB. Will try to do this soon. But the code on github will work with 2.9 and 3.0. The issue is whether you're running a release from before or after Nov. 6, which is when Moodle changed the way .swf files were fetched (MDL-48085). If you're running a current release, then just use what the plugins DB page indicates is the right one for your selected version.
  • Gianluca Torbidone
    Gianluca Torbidone
    Wed, 31 May 2017, 3:58 AM
    Is there are any problem with Moodle 3.3? Please does someone try this plugin with last moodle version? some solutions?
    Thanks
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Wed, 31 May 2017, 4:10 AM
    Luka.. the versions currently on this site (XX-1.6) do not work with Moodle 3.2 and later due to the significant change of the media player code. We hope to have a new version soon that is compatible. Check back here or on our GitHub repository.
  • Anderson Hsu
    Anderson Hsu
    Wed, 29 Nov 2017, 10:53 PM
    Dear Support Team,
    If we use plugin for video uploaded, it can use less network bandwidth or not? (Now we upload video in the moodle , and now we face network bandwidth question, when employee in foreign country, it will use more network bandwidth )
    Thanks a lot.
    Best Regards, Anderson Hsu
  • Fred
    Fred Woolard
    Wed, 29 Nov 2017, 11:11 PM
    Anderson Hsu, this plugin will not work with video uploaded into Moodle, it is for externally hosted video on streaming servers.
  • Asma MECHERGUI
    Asma MECHERGUI
    Mon, 19 Feb 2018, 10:33 PM
    If our moodle is version 3.3, it does not support Streaming media filter (RTMP) plugin. How can we do for the issue ? Thank you.
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