# Problem with flv

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 3, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828 "2009-01-03T18:37:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/1 "2009-01-03T18:37:17Z")

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hi,  
my config file is like that.i have problem with streaming .flv  
files.any  
help would be great?thank you.

user nginx nginx;  
worker\_processes 1;

error\_log /var/log/nginx/error\_log info;

events {  
worker\_connections 8192;  
use epoll;  
}

http {  
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;  
default\_type application/octet-stream;

```
log_format main
    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
        '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
    '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
    '"$gzip_ratio"';

client_header_timeout 10m;
client_body_timeout 10m;
send_timeout 10m;

connection_pool_size 256;
client_header_buffer_size 1k;
large_client_header_buffers 4 2k;
request_pool_size 4k;

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_types text/plain;

output_buffers 1 32k;
postpone_output 1460;

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;

keepalive_timeout 75 20;

ignore_invalid_headers on;

index index.html;

server {
# listen 127.0.0.1:8080;
    listen 10.10.33.94:8080;
    server_name wqldev01.webquest.net;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log info;

    root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;

            location ~ \.flv$ {
        set $limit_rate 300k;
            flv;
        }
}

##ssl portion
# server {
# listen 127.0.0.1:443;
# server_name localhost;
#
# ssl on;
# ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx.pem;
# ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx.key;
#
# access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.ssl_access_log main;
# error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.ssl_error_log info;
#
# root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;
# }

```

}

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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/2 "2009-01-04T13:02:00Z")

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Hi,

What’s exactly your problem? On our VoD website we rely on Nginx to  
stream flv content, so I can assist, but you need to provide more  
details.

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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/3 "2009-01-04T20:29:42Z")

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my problem is now that it start to load from the XXX byte i have  
requested  
but i cant see it.it just loads and i dont know how to make it show the  
streaming,cause it was playing before with the progressive video  
download.(i use usual addChild method for video nothing extra)

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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/4 "2009-01-05T08:14:12Z")

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what player are you using? If your running flowplayer I can paste the  
correct start querry.

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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/5 "2009-01-05T09:27:54Z")

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no i am using my written flash project.

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**Author:** ![hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hakan\_durukan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hakan_durukan)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-flv/156828/6 "2012-06-26T11:45:43Z")

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Ed wrote in post #765737:

> what player are you using? If your running flowplayer I can paste the  
> correct start querry.  
> dude i am using flowplayer with same problem can you paste query for it  
> ?