DVR Streaming

ScaleEngine DVR, available on advanced and professional accounts, allows you to set a backbuffer, or rewindable portion of your stream. This can be set on any stream: live, switchboard, or channel. It is configurable on a per-stream basis.

Using the DVR feature, the viewer will get access to the seek bar, and be able to seek through the backbuffer as though it was VOD. After the stream finishes, the backbuffer will still be available for playback.

Once your account is setup for DVR, the DVR settings box will appear in the stream manage pages.

Set the number of segments to be the amount of segments you wish to have in the back buffer. The length will be the number of segments, times the segment length. Unless you have had the chunk length adjusted, it will be 8 seconds.

The reconnect timeout sets how long the server will wait before treating an encoder connecting as a new stream. If the encoder disconnects, and connects within the time specified here, it will continue appending to the existing buffer. If it is longer, then the buffer will be cleared and a new buffer will be started.