With the limitations I am running into with Stream outside of basic capabilities of serving videos d

With the limitations I am running into with Stream outside of basic capabilities of serving videos does anyone have any recommendations outside of Cloudinary?

Basic Needs

Overlay layers
Custom Captions
AI reframe on faces
Video Resizing from 16:9 to 9:16
Clipping Original Videos
Animation Layers

RRxDumped Noob here. I am very confused with the Cloudflare Calls API. If my interpretatio...

Isaac McFadyen•3/24/25, 6:30 PM

The main consideration there is that there are a large number of networks where NAT holepunching doesn't work or that disable UDP.

Apps like FaceTime actually use the fallback approach you described except the other way around. They generally start with relaying and then try direct P2P, and if that fails there's no interruption to the stream, it just remains relayed. Calls also has a (free) TURN server you can use to attempt P2P.

But also yeah, P2P doesn't work too well at scale, both because it's a lot of bandwidth and also varying network conditions. Past like... 4 people on a call it starts to be tricky.

Isaac McFadyen•3/24/25, 6:32 PM

If you want to discuss further there's a dedicated Calls channel at #calls

sterling•3/24/25, 6:34 PM

A few questions I've had while trialing out the product...

Is it possible to use a custom domain for VOD playback with Stream? I can see there's an option for the ingest URL, but I don't seeing anything for assigning a domain for playback.

Is the maximum ingest bitrate a soft limit? I'm getting an error for videos with >200Mbps bitrates.

Also, how is the VOD file stored following ingest? Is there any information on the regional location where the original file will be stored after upload?

AAlex Patterson With the limitations I am running into with Stream outside of basic capabilities...

1984 Ford Laser•3/24/25, 8:02 PM

AWS Medialive will do some of these

Chris Hayes•3/26/25, 7:29 PM

Has anyone sent cloudflare stream requests through a separate domain from the official cloudflare one? I think we're having some corporate firewall issues blocking the cloudflare stream domain and whitelisting a domain is like a 6-month effort.

Edit - after further investigation, it's a corporate firewall blocking Cloudflare Stream since watching videos is not allowed at work, lol.

KillerBearGamez•3/26/25, 8:53 PM

Hey Guys im having an issue with my streaming side of cloudflare after 11hours 12min it stopped not sure why the encoder says its been going for longer but the stream link changed which is annoying any ideas ? i need to be able to stream for 3 day nonstop

KKillerBearGamez Hey Guys im having an issue with my streaming side of cloudflare after 11hours 1...

1984 Ford Laser•3/26/25, 9:37 PM

Was stream recording/live DVR turned on? I think a single HLS manifest is limited to 7200 segments so maybe you reached that after 11 hours or so?

Mike Lush•3/27/25, 8:44 AM

hey, I cant find a page where I could manage by subscription level for Cloudflare Stream, increase my storage capacity, why is it so hidden? Anyone knows where to change it?

MMike Lush hey, I cant find a page where I could manage by subscription level for Cloudflar...

1984 Ford Laser•3/27/25, 9:34 AM

Scroll to the bottom of the videos page

Mike Lush•3/27/25, 10:18 AM

Ugh thanks @1984 Ford Laser

11984 Ford Laser Was stream recording/live DVR turned on? I think a single HLS manifest is limite...

KillerBearGamez•3/27/25, 6:19 PM

yeah it was turned on but makes sence with the 7200 Segments

1984 Ford Laser•3/27/25, 8:44 PM

Try longer segment length in your streaming software (normally it's 3seconds) and see if that helps

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 5:00 AM

Would love an option to set all stream embed codes to include the DVR param by default

troselord•3/28/25, 9:07 PM

Have an issue with the cloudflare embed of stream to a website. On desktop it works fine but on mobile it does not play - I receive the "unknown error occurred" in the video player

Ttroselord Have an issue with the cloudflare embed of stream to a website. On desktop it wo...

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:34 PM

On the mobile have you tried different browser or internet connection?

11984 Ford Laser On the mobile have you tried different browser or internet connection?

troselord•3/28/25, 9:40 PM

No but im gettin this popup from safari ios

troselord•3/28/25, 9:40 PM

troselord•3/28/25, 9:41 PM

So on page load it would show the stream video first frame like it loaded correctly, everything is muted and autoplay is off

troselord•3/28/25, 9:41 PM

then iOS Safari error pops up at the top

troselord•3/28/25, 9:41 PM

and then stream goes black and i'll get an error message

troselord•3/28/25, 9:42 PM

Its strange because when i first implemented cloudflare and their embed a few weeks ago, everything was working fine. Now this occurs.

Ive tried on different phones yes

troselord•3/28/25, 9:42 PM

Regular playback, youtube embeds, and everything else work fine in this modal I created. It specifically is an issue with cloudflare embed

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:42 PM

Not iphone?

troselord•3/28/25, 9:42 PM

yes iphone

troselord•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

Everything works besides iphone

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

right

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

try different player maybe

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

I swear theres an issue with Safari playback or something? Someone chime in

troselord•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

aight - it seems to be a common issue according to all these misc. cloudflare help requests

troselord•3/28/25, 9:43 PM

havent found solutions

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:44 PM

Copy the HLS manifest link from your stream and see if it works here on your device: https://hlsjs.video-dev.org/

troselord•3/28/25, 9:46 PM

I did test using the HLS manifest URL - that one worked on mobile, but then it didnt work on desktop. I used the manifest URL in the cloudflare iframe however, it seems the examples show to use it in a video element with JS event determining if hls playback eligible or not

troselord•3/28/25, 9:46 PM

ooo nice lemme try it on this site

1984 Ford Laser•3/28/25, 9:47 PM

the manifest URL won't work in the iframe, you will need to use it with a separate player like hls.js, video.js etc

troselord•3/28/25, 9:47 PM

got it

troselord•3/28/25, 9:47 PM

nice - ok this is a step in the right direction

Manifest works fine on this site, im gonna try it with hls player, thank you

troselord•3/29/25, 12:01 AM

Using vidstack js for the stream works now

troselord•3/29/25, 12:01 AM

@1984 Ford Laser appreciate the help!

Bob Nguyen•4/1/25, 4:36 AM

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to embed a Cloudflare Stream iframe into my mobile app, but I'm running into an issue. I added my app’s origin, but it says the origin is not allowed. It works fine when I allow all origins, so I’m guessing Cloudflare Stream only supports standard web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS).

Has anyone successfully embedded the iframe in a mobile app with the "Allowed Origins" feature enabled?

Thank you~

sl0wik•4/1/25, 6:52 PM

Is https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/webrtc-beta/ dead or its normal to take this long to make an official release?

Cloudflare Docs

WebRTC · Cloudflare Stream docs

Sub-second latency live streaming (using WHIP) and playback (using WHEP) to unlimited concurrent viewers.

Ssl0wik Is https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/webrtc-beta/ dead or its normal to t...

1984 Ford Laser•4/1/25, 8:59 PM

Huh? Alpha comes before beta not after. Plenty of people have been using WebRTC fine

11984 Ford Laser Huh? Alpha comes before beta not after. Plenty of people have been using WebRTC ...

sl0wik•4/1/25, 9:01 PM

I mean official release. Sorry.

11984 Ford Laser Huh? Alpha comes before beta not after. Plenty of people have been using WebRTC ...

sl0wik•4/1/25, 9:02 PM

Its in beta for like 2 years

xfated•4/3/25, 6:08 AM

Hi, i noticed that when I update the caption on the video, refreshing the page still uses the captions cached on the client side. is there any way to bust the cache to fetch new captions?

Xxfated Hi, i noticed that when I update the caption on the video, refreshing the page s...

1984 Ford Laser•4/3/25, 8:01 AM

How long after changing did you test? I wonder if captions rely on KV for metadata, which have an up-to 60sec global propagation period

Xxfated Hi, i noticed that when I update the caption on the video, refreshing the page s...

1984 Ford Laser•4/3/25, 8:05 AM

Also did you do a hard refresh with Ctrl+F5 or similar?

Oleksii Kilevoi•4/3/25, 8:15 AM

Was trying to create Stream fro cloudflare dashboard and having this error

Authorization Failure: The authentication credentials are not authorized to perform the request. Verify the credentials and try again.

Authorization Failure: The authentication credentials are not authorized to perform the request. Verify the credentials and try again.

11984 Ford Laser How long after changing did you test? I wonder if captions rely on KV for metada...

xfated•4/3/25, 9:39 AM

yep. after hard reload, it still uses the cached version: 200 OK (from disk cache)200 OK (from disk cache)
i tested just shortly after adding the captions. (accessing the video via incognito works since there's no local cached version)
i'm trying to figure out how to ignore this local cache.

i'm using an iframe to render the video, and within the iframe the request to fetch captions is made with a url like https://cloudflarestream.com/{video_id}/text/en.vtthttps://cloudflarestream.com/{video_id}/text/en.vtt

is there any way to change the Cache-Control response headers for this request? its currently set to max-age=1800max-age=1800

OOleksii Kilevoi Was trying to create Stream fro cloudflare dashboard and having this error `Auth...

Oleksii Kilevoi•4/3/25, 2:13 PM

Disregard didn't realise you have to enable it and pay separately here https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream

Cloudflare Docs

Overview · Cloudflare Stream docs

Cloudflare Stream lets you or your end users upload, store, encode, and deliver live and on-demand video with one API, without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.

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