Using Startover
Startover is a built-in capability of the Quortex platform. Before we go into the details of how to configure startover, let's make sure we use the same language ... Startover is the ability, for your end users, to go back in time in their live streams. The use case the platforms focuses on is when you want your users to come back to a specific point in time, typically the program start (in which case it can be API driven through integration with your EPG system), or the event start (in case you started streaming before the event was actually started).
Startover is a per-pool feature. As such it needs to be enabled in the pool settings, in the "Time shifting" tab. All the inputs of this pool will then be "startover-enabled", meaning that you will be able to define stream entrypoints in the past. We support going back up to 6 hours in the past.
Once the time shift capability has been enabled at the pool level, you'll be able to define entry points per publishing point. Hence, go, the "OTT endpoints" section of your dashboard and click on an endpoint to enter its details.
Open the startover section:
You can add one or several startover times (either in your local time zone or in UTC). Just enter the time you want, click on "confirm", and you're (almost) good to go!
The URL that you can use and publish can be accessed by clicking on the copy button, next to the start time you defined. In that case, the URL will include a parameter that provides the start time (for instance ?start=2024-03-26T16:42:22Z) so that the player can start streaming from the expected time. The support of this parameter may depend on players.
Save your changes.
Activating the startover
Startover is a per-pool feature. As such it needs to be enabled in the pool settings, in the "Time shifting" tab. All the inputs of this pool will then be "startover-enabled", meaning that you will be able to define stream entrypoints in the past. We support going back up to 6 hours in the past.
Defining stream entry points in the past
Once the time shift capability has been enabled at the pool level, you'll be able to define entry points per publishing point. Hence, go, the "OTT endpoints" section of your dashboard and click on an endpoint to enter its details.
Open the startover section:
You can add one or several startover times (either in your local time zone or in UTC). Just enter the time you want, click on "confirm", and you're (almost) good to go!
The URL that you can use and publish can be accessed by clicking on the copy button, next to the start time you defined. In that case, the URL will include a parameter that provides the start time (for instance ?start=2024-03-26T16:42:22Z) so that the player can start streaming from the expected time. The support of this parameter may depend on players.
Save your changes.
Updated on: 17/07/2024
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