Log into your Wowza Streaming Engine using the web interface.Follow these steps to create an Application context for your content. The Wowza Streaming Engine needs to be configured to stream your content. Step 2: Prepare the Wowza Streaming Engine Click the View for the channel you want to stream the preview starts.:Click Info from the Configuration menu the device information page opens.Connect to the admin interface of your Epiphan Device using your preferred connection mechanism.The best way to do this is to preview the stream. The channel must be configured to use the H.264 video codecīefore getting started with the streaming event, make sure your content is configured correctly with the Epiphan device.The Epiphan device must have a channel configured with the content you want to live stream.The Epiphan device must have a configured wired or tethered network connection (with access to the Wowza Streaming Engine).An Epiphan broadcaster or recorder (see list above).A Wowza Streaming Engine instance installed on a server accessible through the network by the Epiphan device and your users (this tutorial is written with Wowza Streaming Engine 4.2).These instructions give details for streaming through either method, but selection between the methods is outside the scope of this procedure. Both are supported by Epiphan’s family of broadcasters and recorders and work with many other Content Distribution Networks (CDNs). The Wowza Streaming Engine supports two connection options: RTMP or RTSP.
The procedure below is for Pro products, including VGADVI Recorder Pro, Pearl and Standalone VGA Grid, but you can follow a similar procedure for other Epiphan broadcasters or recorders and networked VGA Grid (using HD Encoders).
The steps are very similar regardless of whether you’re using an Epiphan professional video streaming device like Pearl-2 or another Epiphan broadcaster or recorder. Are you interested in learning more? Review our joint webinar with Wowza! Epiphan’s broadcasters and recorders work with the Wowza Streaming Engine by providing an encoded stream of your video and audio content for redistribution to your users. network-based cameras, media files, or data from encoders such as Epiphan’s broadcasters and recorders) and streams it to any device either live, or by video-on-demand.
There are two ways of scheduled streaming using wowza:ġ- Server Listener: you set setting of streaming and scheduling in server config file(Application.xml)Ģ- Application Module: you set settings in application config file(Application.xml)įor example if you have my_stream_sched.smil file containing stream_schedule in your my_app_content_directory, in the server listener mode, the smil file is loaded when server starts and if you wanna change that, you need to restart the server! In application module, you only need restart application.Wowza Streaming Engine is a software package that receives video from various sources (e.g. The same rule is true for other things like smil files and. It means if you set your content directory in both conf/your_app/Application.xml and conf/Application.xml ,wowza will choose the directory mentioned in conf/Application.xml. Wowza will select the most specific config file. If something(setting,config.) is set in some of these 3 config files, Pre requirement: in wowza, the hierarchy of config files is in this order: 1- wowza-dir/conf/specific_application_name/Application.xml I guess I missed a step, maybe adding streamPublisherSmilFile property as said in Wowza link I posted above. Now I was expecting to see the stream coming to my Application "live through the Stream called "live". I created a smil file in /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/ana.smil containing this : In /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/conf/Application.xml I added this in Modules : Ĭom.module.ModuleStreamPublisher In /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/conf/Server.xml I added this in ServerListeners :.
I am trying to schedule a playlist on a Wowza server, so that videos get played successively (like a TV channel).