I am using CloudFlare Stream : Live Input (webRTC [WHIP / WHEP]) services w/ Calls : Turn server. U

I am using CloudFlare Stream : Live Input (webRTC [WHIP / WHEP]) services w/ Calls : Turn server. Utilizing SDK's in my API to control setup and management in my CF account. Very easy to integrate and use. Getting < 100ms latency on peer-to-peer connections. Extremely real time. Video quality is solid, and utilizes variable bit rate based on the network conditions. I server live video to a global viewerbase with minimal issues. I understand some parts of Stream are still in Beta mode, yet there are no direct issues effecting my delivery. 5% of viewers occasionally experience a 30 second black screen (no video / audio) when attemtping to connect to the stream, but I may have ruled this out to poor configuration on my end (still experimenting with STUN / TURN server setups in my client code). All in all, a solid solution that exceeds any services provided by AWS. CloudFlare is kicking butt with this one.

VVanquish-I am using CloudFlare Stream : Live Input (webRTC [WHIP / WHEP]) services w/ Ca...

1984 Ford Laser•1/3/25, 11:08 PM

To add my 2cents, I have been using RTMP to deliver video to many thousands of viewers this year without issue. I have tested the LL-RTMP option and have found latency to be under 10 seconds, with quality still being great. No complaints from viewers on quality, unless we're sending an already low bit-rate feed

(we deliver from bonded 4G connections so the ingest bitrate can get crunchy at times lol)

VVanquish-I am using CloudFlare Stream : Live Input (webRTC [WHIP / WHEP]) services w/ Ca...

jkli999•1/4/25, 8:35 AM

Is there a javascript sdk for the frontend to record videos and stream them as rtmp? I only found a sdk for a video player but none for recording.

11984 Ford Laser To add my 2cents, I have been using RTMP to deliver video to many thousands of v...

jkli999•1/4/25, 8:35 AM

Is there a javascript sdk for the frontend to record videos and stream them as rtmp? I only found a sdk for a video player but none for recording.

Jjkli999 Is there a javascript sdk for the frontend to record videos and stream them as r...

Vanquish-OP•1/4/25, 6:02 PM

The CloudFlare Stream service natively provides a few different output types, one of which is RTMP(S), from the broadcast channel. You can use these output endpoints to route the source stream to another service such as AWS MediaLive or other RTMP(S) ingesting services.

Vanquish-OP•1/4/25, 6:03 PM

VVanquish-The CloudFlare Stream service natively provides a few different output types, on...

jkli999•1/4/25, 7:34 PM

Thanks for replying, my problem is rather how to record the videos in the first place. Other video streaming providers come with a sdk for javascript to record videos and stream them to the streaming server. As far as I see it, Cloudflare Stream seem to require another tool like OBS to take care of recording and sending the stream to Cloudflare, so it acts more like just a streaming relay and storage service than a full video streaming kit to build video streaming web applications.

Jjkli999 Thanks for replying, my problem is rather how to record the videos in the first ...

Vanquish-OP•1/4/25, 7:40 PM

I'm not aware of a frontend SDK for transcoding to a RTMP injestion source. For this use case, you'd need to send getUserMedia tracks to a middle-man transcoding server running ffmpeg, and relaying the rtmp output to your input endpoint. You would use a websocket (socket.io) to send chunks from your client to the server for it to receive, transcode, and relay out. Did this in the past and takes some time to build into your application but does work. Latency won't be great. Probably dealing with 5 - 10 second delay based on your transcoding server power / configurations.

You may instead want to look at sending broadcast tracks from the client over webRTC using WHIP client, and send this to Cloudflare Stream. Their service will accept this webRTC source and possibly transcode it in RTMPS relay to use in the output section, so in a way, Cloudflare would be your transcoder. You need to double check if you can mix WHIP (webRTC) input and have RTMPS output work. I may have read somewhere in the CF docs that mixing two types of technology may not yet be supported in the Beta mode.

jkli999•1/5/25, 1:43 AM

Oh, WHIP is new to me, will take a look into it. There is actually a ffmpeg wasm and ffmpeg js implementation, but I haven't looked too deeply into it.

Jjkli999 Oh, WHIP is new to me, will take a look into it. There is actually a ffmpeg wasm...

Vanquish-OP•1/5/25, 1:59 AM

Oh interesting! ffmpeg in the frontend client will need some suitable resources to do so, but could be an interesting experiment. Good luck!

arreads•1/5/25, 2:48 AM

Anyone having issues with either the CF player or the has m3u link not playing in iPhone when Live? Getting a ton of reports it's working on iPad, but not iPhones

Dewy•1/8/25, 12:11 AM

Hi, I'm uploading prerecorded video using cloudflare stream. I am getting a 400 response for certain mp4 files and im unsure why. The error response isn't super helpful

code: ERR_BAD_REQUEST
Request failed with status code: 400
config: {"url":"{presigned s3 url}","meta":{"postId":"05720ef6-c0fb-4fdd-be8e-76d312af0204"}}
url: 
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/my account/stream/copy

code: ERR_BAD_REQUEST
Request failed with status code: 400
config: {"url":"{presigned s3 url}","meta":{"postId":"05720ef6-c0fb-4fdd-be8e-76d312af0204"}}
url: 
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/my account/stream/copy

Dewy•1/8/25, 12:11 AM

I suspect it has to do with videos encoded with h.265 because these same videos fail in aws rekognition with bad codec

Dewy•1/8/25, 12:11 AM

info about the video in question
HEVC, MPEG-4 AACHEVC, MPEG-4 AAC

RxDumped•1/8/25, 12:24 AM

Noob here. I haven't really gotten much into the weeds, but I'm a bit confused with the CF documentation and service offerings. What exactly is the best service for TURN servers to support WebRTC when symmetric NAT's can't establish the p2p? Is the CDN a separate context here, and how do I figure out pricing? I'm an idiot.

DDewy I suspect it has to do with videos encoded with h.265 because these same videos ...

1984 Ford Laser•1/8/25, 12:32 AM

Try re-encoding one of the failed videos into h264 before uploading and see if it still has an issue

Dewy•1/8/25, 12:39 AM

Will do

Dewy•1/8/25, 12:39 AM

Thank you

Dewy•1/8/25, 11:51 AM

@1984 Ford Laser i tried uploading these straight throught the ui and they worked with no problem, but for some reason it didn't like them with a presigned url

Dewy•1/8/25, 11:53 AM

i think this is an issue on my side with how the presigned url is being built. it works for regular videos though so im thinking it might be content type metadata related

RRxDumped Noob here. I haven't really gotten much into the weeds, but I'm a bit confused w...

Vanquish-OP•1/8/25, 3:02 PM

Cloudflare has a TURN server you can create and use, located in their "Calls" section under TURN. You will create a server and get the API credentials to use in your backend. You will then use the endpoints they provide you, and get credentials for users using a curl request to their endpoint to request user turn server credentials to deliver to the client.

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愛が本音•1/12/25, 3:50 AM

quick question about cloudflare stream watermark profiles - we're building a platform where creators can post content and we need to add their username as watermark (like "site.com/username"). but i've seen some limits on number of watermark profiles you can create. since we'll have many creators, is this the right approach? or should we look into alternatives like pre-processing videos with ffmpeg?

Hashim•1/16/25, 5:36 AM

Hi
I’m working on a React project with Cloudflare Stream and @eyevinn/webrtc-player. The stream takes 1-5 seconds, or sometimes up to 1 minute, to load. Also, event handlers like on("playback"), on("ready"), and on("error") aren’t working for me. I’m streaming from OBS. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Alex•1/17/25, 9:48 AM

Hello,

I have integrated a Cloudflare webhook to notify my server's API when a stream recording is ready. Then, I use the Cloudflare API (stream/{identifier}/downloads) to download the recording in my code.

It works correctly for all recordings, but when the duration exceeds 4 hours, the webhook doesn't notify my server's API at all.

Has anyone experienced this issue or can help me? Thanks!

Andrew Mock•1/17/25, 4:14 PM

I am seeing this glitch state in the Cloudflare backend for an extended period of time. Is this common? Input is green, and Cloudflare backend refuses to deliver the content.

AAlex Hello, I have integrated a Cloudflare webhook to notify my server's API when a ...

1984 Ford Laser•1/18/25, 1:59 AM

Streams don't record when they are over 4 hours in length

JDGamingTV•1/18/25, 5:06 AM

I've noticed an issue over the past month or so. After streaming for an extended period, typically around an hour, the stream stops delivering video. I checked the video player on the Cloudflare dashboard and still not loading there, and OBS isn't reporting any disconnects, dropped frames, or other issues.

What's strange is that even if I stop the stream and start streaming again, the video still doesn't deliver. The only solution seems to be waiting for about an hour before it starts working again. It's a really odd problem. Times are estimates here but generally close.

JDGamingTV•1/18/25, 5:09 AM

I noticed something else strange: when the issue occurs and I’m live, the video player here never actually loads the video. However, once I end the stream, a VOD appears, showing what was streamed.

JJDGamingTV I noticed something else strange: when the issue occurs and I’m live, the video ...

1984 Ford Laser•1/19/25, 6:22 AM

Just re-read this, are you using the embed code from the live stream channel, or the embed code from the VOD which is generated as soon as the stream is started?

1984 Ford Laser•1/19/25, 9:32 AM

Can the 4hour live stream recording limit be increased?

11984 Ford Laser Just re-read this, are you using the embed code from the live stream channel, or...

JDGamingTV•1/20/25, 2:20 AM

@1984 Ford Laser I'm not using either. For the live stream I am using the HLS Manifest URL on my site but like I said the video player on the stream dashboard is experiencing the same issue as well. I'll do some more test and see if I can record more details about everything.

1984 Ford Laser•1/20/25, 2:23 AM

I would try a different browser and see if the stream player still has issues when you're live

JDGamingTV•1/20/25, 2:25 AM

@1984 Ford Laser I will try that as well

11984 Ford Laser Streams don't record when they are over 4 hours in length

Alex•1/20/25, 8:52 AM

It records. Here is a recording of 5 hours and 24 minutes.

AAlex It records. Here is a recording of 5 hours and 24 minutes.

1984 Ford Laser•1/20/25, 10:21 AM

Huh I'm not sure then! Maybe I'm thinking of a 4 hour limit to generating download links

VVanquish-Cloudflare has a TURN server you can create and use, located in their "Calls" se...

Kaizen - I will not DM U First!•1/20/25, 5:01 PM

Could please document your entire setup and share ? Happy to agree on something commercially to be worth your time - thank you

KKaizen - I will not DM U First!Could please document your entire setup and share ? Happy to agree on something ...

Vanquish-OP•1/21/25, 3:45 AM

Hi. I may need a little time to put together the documentation. Currently in the midst of leading a new release effort that has me preoccupied. Send me more info about your environment. Frontend / backend code? Server setup? What services are you using with Cloudflare that will need the TURN server implementation?

^BG^•1/21/25, 8:31 AM

hello, I am using Cloudflare Stream Service and I have a little problem with my billing. I chose 5$ plan, charged 9$ . Why ? I know 1$ - 1000 additional minute videos . I pretty sure that i didn't watch 4k additional minute videos. I am the one only using.

VVanquish-Hi. I may need a little time to put together the documentation. Currently in the...

Kaizen - I will not DM U First!•1/21/25, 11:13 AM

Thanks. Can I dm you ?

^^BG^hello, I am using Cloudflare Stream Service and I have a little problem with my ...

1984 Ford Laser•1/21/25, 11:33 AM

Did you bother to check what the invoice said?

oof2win2•1/21/25, 11:57 AM

hey there, i'm wondering if it is able to create a token which would let a user watch a stream video up until a certain point only (say only halfway). i don't see anything within the stream docs or the API reference to the token generation endpoint to enable this, so i'm wondering if stream is something that i could use for this or no

kai•1/21/25, 3:28 PM

Is it possible to get the analytics about most viewed portion of the video? I did not see it in the docs.

Ooof2win2 hey there, i'm wondering if it is able to create a token which would let a user ...

1984 Ford Laser•1/21/25, 9:45 PM

Kkai Is it possible to get the analytics about most viewed portion of the video? I di...

1984 Ford Laser•1/21/25, 9:45 PM

MyTufCloud•1/22/25, 10:15 AM

Ok, sorry I pay for a service I'm not familiar with yet and have a tean that could all benefit from some advice, so I'm simply asking to see if anyone would be willing to contribute to a good causem sorry again. I keep finding the wrong channels to post in.

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Isaac McFadyen•1/24/25, 4:02 PM

Run just plain ffmpegffmpeg and see if it has --enable-libsrt--enable-libsrt in it. If so you could try sending to Stream with SRT instead of RTMPS, SRT is often better for unstable internet connections (if that is the case here).

leesus•1/27/25, 10:26 AM

Can anyone confirm that animated thumbnails don't count towards streamed minutes when viewed - seems vague on the thumbnails page in the docs, as it mentions Stream Analytics ("Viewing animated thumbnails does not count toward billed minutes delivered or minutes viewed in Stream Analytics." - emphasis mine)

1984 Ford Laser•1/27/25, 9:54 PM

Is there a reasonable limit on the number of live inputs that can be created, beyond general API limits? I would be looking at creating, then days later deleting, a couple dozen channels a week. Any issues with this?

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