Recorded Stream

The Recorded Stream service plays back recordings that were captured earlier, so an operator can review past video or audio as a stream.

Overview

The Recorded Stream service replays media that was previously recorded, the same way a live device is streamed - so a recording can be viewed, sought through, and played back in SBN Video. It reads from where the recordings are stored and plays back from a chosen point in time.

It is one of SBN Media's *device-stream* services, so it shares the on-demand creation, load-balancing, and limits common to all of them - see Device Streams (SBN-Media/Devices/device-streams). This page covers only what is specific to recordings.

1. Runs: When configured. Needed to play back recordings.
2. Required: Only if you replay recordings.
3. Depends on: NATS, and the stored recordings (made by the Recorder).

Configuration

Recorded Stream has no settings of its own beyond the shared devicestream configuration described on the Device Streams page. A recording is opened by its URL:

1. recorded://<device-id>?startTime=<time> - replays the recording for that device from the given time.

After changing any shared settings in sbn-media.local.yaml, apply them with ./sbn-media config reload.

FAQ

How do I play back a recording?

Open a recorded://<device-id>?startTime=... URL; the service replays from that time and plays on through the recording.

Where do the recordings come from?

They are captured and stored by the Recorder; Recorded Stream reads them back.

Do I need it?

Only to replay recordings.

Related pages

1. SBN Media Overview (SBN-Media/overview)
2. Device Streams (SBN-Media/Devices/device-streams)
3. Installing and Configuring SBN Media (SBN-Media/installation)
4. Camera Stream (SBN-Media/Devices/camerastream)