How To Stream Videos With Nginx and JWPlayer on CentOS 6

Published on May 31, 2013

By Bulat Khamitov

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 For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained.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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Very cool!

Can you do an article on how to record streaming video?

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August 12, 2014

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.