Wowza Media Systems

Simple Video Streaming

To install

Follow the instructions below to install this example. The installer will setup an applications named vod for video on demand streaming.

VISTA/WINDOWS 7:  Right click install.bat and select Run as Administrator
WINDOWS:  Double click the install.bat batch file
LINUX:  Run ./install.sh
MAC OSX:  Double click the install.command script file

To play

Wowza Media Systems provides an online video on demand streaming tutorial. This tutorial include the most common streaming options including information on how to stream to the Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Silverlight Player, Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch devices and mobile devices using RTSP/RTP:

How to play a video on demand file

Additional resources

Wowza Media Server Quick Start Guide
Wowza Media Server Forums
Dynamic Load Balancing
Media Security
How to best setup an application for RTSP/RTP streaming

Note: To run the examples on a machine that does not include a web browser, you must either copy the .html, .js, .png, .xap and .swf files to a machine that does include a web browser or make these files available through a web server on the machine running Wowza Server. Upon running the .html file, you will also need to change the rtmp:// URL to point to the ip address of the server running Wowza Server.