JW Player, S3, Wowza and “Stream not found”

When working on an application that streams videos from S3 I noticed that whenever an S3 object has a space in its name it fails to stream. However, when streaming objects without spaces in the name it works fine.

The solution is as follows:

I am using PHP and JW Player 4.3. The problem is due to JW player not encoding url when rtmp:// protocol is used (specifically in RTMPTModel.as file). So to fix the problem with playing files that have spaces you need to either:

• Replace spaces with “+” and urlencode() the whole url after that. For example:

  
  urlencode("mp4:amazons3//file+name+with+spaces.m4v");
  

• Double urlencode() the whole url. For example:

  
  urlencode(urlencode("mp4:amazons3//file name with spaces.m4v"));