live streaming

[tomer953]

Sorry for asking this,
but I can't figure it out.

I am a web developer and I have a the following need:
my website is related to a big event, this event finals is pre-recorded into mp4 video. (lets say 1hr long)
on a specific time, I want users to see a video player inside the website,
they should see the exact same moment.. (live stream of the mp4 video, same as you see if you watch youtube live event)

But, I can't connect all the puzzle pieces I need.
I configured the hls-server, converted the mp4 file with the ffmpeg,
and I am able to watch the video from Edge video player.
The result - its not live. actually is the same as skipping this solution, and just serving the mp4 as is (confused...)

I looked into in-memory and rtmp, but not sure how it is going to help?
should I create rtmp server? (also looked into it, and did not understand how to publish my mp4 to the rtmp-server)
as you know, rtmp does not supported in web-browser, so should I only use it to serve live media to the hls-server which just convert the stream to hls, and then serve it again?

It seems like a very simple requirement of playing video inside web, is going to be so complicated :O

Huge thanks.

[Saentist]

There is no HLS solution for LIVE strreaming.
In mean all streams from Live stream converted to HLS
are delayed in size of chunks used in playlist, near 5-15 seconds delay.

[tomer953]

ok thanks,
so what is the common way to solve my problem?
I don't care about minor delay, I just want clients to view the video in my website,
and I don't want them to be able to "skip to the end", meaning I want them all to finish the watching in the same time...

I know I can disable the "controls" on the client-side, but this means that a technical user can view the page source and just get the link to the full .mp4 file
therefore Im searching the "streaming" solution instead

[Saentist]

Thats a player job to do.
to rewind reward you need to index stream and long chunklist.
https://github.com/streamingriver/video-stream-recorder
about soucecode
there is a good ticket/hotlinking protection invited long time ago