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  • Video On Demand

    How to test server-to-client bandwidth for RTMP clients 

    Published on 10-02-2010 02:07 AM     Number of Views: 23175 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    This article describes how to use a bandwidth checker provided by forum contributor Roger. It is a Wowza Media Server/Java version of the bandwidth checker: ...
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    Media security overview 

    Published on 10-02-2010 02:03 AM     Number of Views: 55604 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand,
    5. Security

    There are many different ways to protect streaming media. This article provides links to the different articles that describe ...
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    How to get the StreamNameAlias AddOn 

    Published on 10-02-2010 01:04 AM     Number of Views: 22039 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Apple iOS,
    4. Live,
    5. Video On Demand,
    6. Microsoft Silverlight,
    7. Mobile,
    8. RTSP/RTP,
    9. Security,
    10. Set-top Box,
    11. SHOUTcast/Icecast

    This package includes a module that adds support for stream name aliases. This system can be used to simplify complex URL-based stream names, provide security to limit the valid stream names used, or just as a simple method for mapping one stream name to another. The source code is included so that the system can be extended if needed. ...
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    How to view on demand file details 

    Published on 10-02-2010 12:33 AM     Number of Views: 7106 
    1. Categories:
    2. Video On Demand

    An MP4 file (QuickTime container) can contain many different video and audio formats. Wowza Media Server and Flash only support H.264 (AVC1, MPEG4 Part 10), AAC (MP4A, AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC) and MP3 in an MP4 file. GSpot is one tool can be used to inspect the details of an MP4 video on demand file to determine the video and audio codecs used to be sure they are supported by Wowza Media Server and Flash. ...
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    How to get Flash RTMP Load Test Tool 

    Published on 10-02-2010 12:12 AM     Number of Views: 15288 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    Wowza® Media Systems provides a Flash® RTMP Load Test Tool that can be used to generate RTMP load on a single Wowza Media ...
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    How to get MediaCache AddOn (scale video on demand streaming) 

    Published on 10-02-2010 12:11 AM     Number of Views: 22692 
    1. Categories:
    2. Video On Demand

    MediaCache AddOn is a read-through caching mechanism for video on demand streaming. Similar to live repeater technology that's aimed at increasing the scalability of live streaming, MediaCache technology is a means of scaling video on demand streaming. The system is very flexible and extendable. ...
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    How to use LongTail JW Player 5 with Wowza Media Server 

    Published on 10-01-2010 11:17 PM     Number of Views: 33477 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    This article describes how to use JW Player 5 to stream from Wowza Media Server. ...
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    How to troubleshoot RTSP/RTP playback 

    Published on 10-01-2010 08:39 PM     Number of Views: 83339 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Video On Demand,
    4. Mobile,
    5. RTSP/RTP,
    6. Set-top Box

    This mobile streaming troubleshooting guide covers RTSP/RTP out to devices such as Blackberry, Android and other mobile phones. It does not cover Apple HTTP streaming to iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. ...
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    How to combat hotlinking your Adobe Flash SWF file 

    Published on 10-01-2010 08:02 PM     Number of Views: 19372 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand,
    5. Security

    Hotlink Denial controls the html container only. Hotlinking is another word for embedding. For example, you can embed a Youtube video on your website, they even provide a snip of code to make that possible. A user can look at the source code of your html page, copy the embed/object tags (or swfobject) and place that in a html page on their website. You can do the same with img tags, for example. If you want users to do that, it's called embedding; if you don't want them to do it, it's called hotlinking. Use this package when you don't want your users to be able to do this. ...
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    How to set up video on demand streaming 

    Published on 10-01-2010 07:18 PM     Number of Views: 148504 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Apple iOS,
    4. Video On Demand,
    5. Microsoft Silverlight,
    6. Mobile,
    7. RTSP/RTP,
    8. Set-top Box

    This tutorial provides basic steps for streaming video on demand (VOD) content through Wowza Media Server® to all supported player technologies. ...
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    How to configure Apple HTTP Live Streaming packetization (cupertinostreaming) 

    Published on 10-01-2010 11:07 AM     Number of Views: 31925 
    1. Categories:
    2. Apple iOS,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    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): ...
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    How to configure Apple QuickTime player for RTSP/RTP playback on Windows 

    Published on 10-01-2010 10:40 AM     Number of Views: 11004 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Video On Demand,
    4. RTSP/RTP

    Instructions to turn on/off RTSP/RTP over HTTP in the QuickTime player on Windows: ...
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    How to format Adobe Flash RTMP URLs 

    Published on 10-01-2010 10:25 AM     Number of Views: 10269 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    Many Flash based players (FLVPlayback component being one) will use a single RTMP url to both connect to Wowza Media Server and play a particular stream. In reality this url is broken into two pieces; server connection url and stream name. The expanded format of this url assuming the stream is located at the path [path1]/[path2]/[streamName] takes the form: ...
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    Example of how to use ComputeSpectrum with Wowza Media Server 

    Published on 10-01-2010 09:27 AM     Number of Views: 2768 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    An example of how to use ComputeSpectrum with Wowza Server. This example requires that the FastPlayVideoStreaming example be installed. Once this example is installed, ...
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    How to use Flowplayer with Wowza Media Server 

    Published on 10-01-2010 09:24 AM     Number of Views: 26980 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    This article describes how to use Flowplayer (http://flowplayer.org) with Wowza Media Server®. ...
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    How to use LongTail JW Player 4 with Wowza Media Server 

    Published on 10-01-2010 09:22 AM     Number of Views: 11677 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    This article describes how to stream pre-recorded video content from Wowza Media Server to JW Player 4. ...
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    How to set up protocol rollover with ActionScript 

    Published on 10-01-2010 09:19 AM     Number of Views: 10582 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    Here is a quick snippet of ActionScript 2 code that illustrates how to attempt connections over multiple RTMP protocols (RTMP and RTMPT). It will first try RTMP over port 443. If that fails, it will attempt RTMPT over port 443. This is just a simple example and can easily be expanded to cover other protcol rollover needs. ...
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    How to configure VLC player for RTSP/RTP playback (RTSP/RTP interleaved and tuning) 

    Published on 10-01-2010 08:41 AM     Number of Views: 41234 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Video On Demand,
    4. RTSP/RTP

    Instructions to configure VideoLAN VLC to stream RTSP/RTP over TCP (RTSP/RTP interleaved). This mode of streaming tends ...
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    How to use the Apple media stream validator tool (mediastreamvalidator) 

    Published on 10-01-2010 08:35 AM     Number of Views: 7446 
    1. Categories:
    2. Apple iOS,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    Instructions to get the Apple HTTP Streaming validator tool for iOS devices. ...
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    How to add SecureToken protection to LongTail JW Player 4 

    Published on 10-01-2010 08:23 AM     Number of Views: 3757 
    1. Categories:
    2. Adobe Flash,
    3. Live,
    4. Video On Demand

    Instructions to add SecureToken protection to JW Player 4. As of JW Player 4.1, support for SecureToken is built-in with the player. ...
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