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How To Stream Videos With Nginx and JWPlayer on CentOS 6
Status: Deprecated
This article covers a version of CentOS that is no longer supported. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of CentOS.
Reason: CentOS 6 reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020 and no longer receives security patches or updates. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained.
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This guide might still be useful as a reference, but may not work on other CentOS releases. If available, we strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of CentOS you are using.
Step 1 - Install Nginx
rpm -ivh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm yum -y install nginx chkconfig nginx on && service nginx restart
Step 2 - Download JWPlayer
You can get the latest version from their website
cd /usr/share/nginx/html wget http://www.longtailvideo.com/download/jwplayer-3359.zip unzip jwplayer-3359.zip
Now that you have your JWPlayer installed in /usr/share/nginx/html/jwplayer you would need to add an HTML file that calls it.
Step 3 - Create an HTML file for playback
You can either embed this code into your existing webpages, or create a new file player.html and save it to /usr/share/nginx/html/player.html
From our previous article we have "big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.flv" flash file available for playback.
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/jwplayer/jwplayer.js"></script>
<div id="myElement">Loading the player...</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("myElement").setup({ file: "big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.flv",
"autoStart": true });
</script>
</body>
</html>
Navigate over to your cloud server's IP and playback filename (http://198.199.88.112/player.html in our example):
And you are all done!
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Sorry, but this is NOT streaming server. This is a simple media player. The streaming url starts with rtmp and the JW Player is not configured to play RTMP.
How to connect with my wedcam? or camera
What happen? Do you think it is a stream video?
Can you do an article on how to record streaming video?
Very cool!