What is live=1 parameter within rtmpsink /src urls

[David Röthlisberger]

On 29 Mar 2014, at 09:52, manickam palaniappan <manickam79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> live streamer:      ... !      rtmpsink location="rtmp://localhost/live/test1 live=1"
> stream player:   ... playbin uri="rtmp://localhost/live/test1 live=1"
> 
> Could somebody let me know what does that parameter mean. The gst-inspect wasnt showing such a parameter in the doc output.

It's part of the "location" value passed on to the underlying rtmp
implementation (librtmp); it isn't a property of the rtmpsink/src which
is why you don't see it in the gst-inspect output. See the librtmp
documentation: http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/librtmp.3.html