Hello! I’ve signed up with a web/media hosting company that uses Wowza. They have sent me instructions on how to stream video to them from Adobe Flash Live Media Encoder (in Windows). I’m capturing audio/video from a Linux box, though, and therefore can’t use that.
(Charlie, I saw a message suggesting that people consider other solutions besides VLC… but I’m not really sure if there are any for Linux clients. Do you know of any?)
With that assumption, I’d like to try to get VLC working if I can. Now, the hosting company’s instructions for Adobe Flash Live Media Encoder tell me to fire it up and put the following into the “Flash Media Server URL”:
rtmp://www.example.com/live/_definst_/doPublish=12345
where “www.example.com” is my hostname and 12345 is apparently my password encoded into the rtmp:// URL. I tried it out, and it seems to work. They also suggest that other media encoders might also work with a URL such as:
rtmp://www.example.com/live?doPublish=12345
So now I’m trying to figure out how to translate that information into something that will work for VLC. The VLC sticky had several example URLs, all of which seem to end with some variation of
rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,sdp=file://%WMSCONFIG_HOME%/content/vlc.sdp}
but that doesn’t seem to help me. I suppose I can replace 127.0.0.0 with www.example.com , but what (if anything) do I need for the sdp part? And how to I specify in the VLC command line all the other parts of the URL that works with the Adobe encoder?
Thanks to anyone who can help me get started with this.