HOW TO P2P-ENABLE VIBLAST PLAYER
Viblast PDN is our patent-pending peer-asssited delivery solution that reduces bandwidth usage, imporoves QoE and insures agains viewershipt spikes. It extends your existing streaming infrastructure, complementing any CDN and streaming engine.
All Viblast Player users can easily enable Viblast PDN and get peer-assisted delivery with a single line of code.
ENABLING VIBLAST PDN FOR VIBLAST PLAYER
Enabling the peer-assisted delivery network (PDN) is a matter of just adding data-viblast-enable-pdn="true" to a video element. For example:
<body>
...
<video src="//cdn3.viblast.com/streams/hls/airshow/playlist.m3u8" data-viblast-key="my-key" data-viblast-enable-pdn="true" controls></video>
...
</body>
Please, note that you need to have a valid Viblast license (login required) for the PDN functionality to be enabled after the initial 30-day free trial. You will also need Viblast Player ver.6.06 or above. Here's how to check your Viblast Player version.
Enabling Viblast PDN will be entirely transparent to your viewers. The only noticeable changes will be an increase in the video quality and a more stable stream, especially during viewership spikes.
Learn more about the features and benefits of Viblast PDN.
GET PDN PERFORMANCE STATISTICS
To get detailed statistics about the performance of the PDN network, log into your Viblast portal account. After logging in, you will see a list of your streams. Click on the stats button next to the stream to see detailed PDN statistics. Please note that it takes up to a minute for new streams to appear in the portal.
Enabling Viblast PDN when dynamically setting up the Player
If you setup your player dynamically then you have to specify enablePdn: true to the list of arguments to the setup() function. Here is an example:
viblast("#target-video-tag").setup({
key: 'my-key',
stream: '//cdn3.viblast.com/streams/hls/airshow/playlist.m3u8',
enablePdn: true,
autoplay: true,
});
That's it. Afterwards you can log into the portal and see how the PDN is performing.