Advanced Topics and Troubleshooting

ModuleMediaCasterStreamMonitorAdvanced is used with native-RTP or MPEG-TS encoder streams. It will monitor these streams ...

A jitter buffer is an area where packets can be collected and stored before being sent to the depacketizer at regularly spaced intervals to enable a more even playback. To configure an RTP jitter buffer and to log packet loss add the following properties to the RTP/Properties section of [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml ...

Live stream repeater is a method for delivering a single live stream across a multiple server deployment to many viewers. ...

Live stream repeater is a method for delivering a single live stream across a multiple server deployment to many viewers. The setup uses an origin/edge configuration where the source stream is published to an origin server and the stream is then made available for playback on multiple edge servers. This article provides instructions for setting up the live stream repeater to stream a live stream to Microsoft® Silverlight® using Microsoft Smooth Streaming. ...

This article describes the properties that you can use to control how the Cupertino (iOS device) segmenter segments an incoming live stream. All time values are in milliseconds. The values can be set on a per-application basis as LiveStreamPacketizer/Properties in [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml (where [application] is the name of the application to which you want to apply the settings): ...

This article describes how to set up an application for streaming to achieve the lowest possible latency from video capture to playback. ...

The live stream repeater, SHOUTcast, RTSP and native RTP streams use an internal Wowza Pro system called MediaCaster. A ...

By default, I-slices are treated as key frames. If you don't want I-slices to be treated as key frames, edit [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml and add the following property to the Streams/Properties container ...

To debug encoder multi-bitrate key frame alignment do the following: ...

By default, Wowza will bind to the local network interface when joining a multicast stream. If you would like to force Wowza to join using a particular network interface edit [install-dir]/conf/VHost.xml and edit the RTP/Datagram/Incoming section ...

The properties and their defaults that are available to control how the Smooth Streaming (Silverlight) segmenter segments an incoming live stream. All time values are in milliseconds. These values can be set on an application basis as LiveStreamPacketizer/Properties in [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml (where [application] is the name of the application to which you want to apply the settings). ...

In Wowza Media Server® 3.5.0 and earlier, per-stream settings are done by adding query parameters to URLs in .stream files. This is only supported for a limited number of stream types. You can specify more settings by adding properties to Application.xml files and to MediaCaster-specific XML files; however, these settings affect all streams played with the application or MediaCaster.

Starting in Wowza Media Server 3.5.1, the ability to specify stream-specific settings is expanded to support more stream types and there are more settings that you can configure using JSON common notation. ...

The following configuartion will add a server listener that will monitor an applications content folder for added and deleted ...

This article describes how to ensure that each origin stream in a multiple-bitrate stream on a Wowza live stream repeater ...

Instructions for how to add AUD, SPS, and PPS values to live H.264 key frames. These properties instruct Wowza Media Server ...

MediaStreamNameGroups is a way to groups streams together using a SMIL file. The streams are started using the SMIL with ...

This article describes how to use AuthenticateUsernamePasswordProviderBase with the ModuleRTMPAuthenticate module to intercept ...

Live stream repeater is a method for delivering a single live stream across a multiple server deployment to many viewers. ...

A list of properties and their defaults that are available to control how the San Jose (Flash HTTP streaming) segmenter segments an incoming live stream. All time values are in milliseconds. These values can be set on an application basis as LiveStreamPacketizer/Properties in [install-dir]/conf/[application]/Application.xml (where [application] is the name of the application to which you want to apply the settings): ...