Number of viewers export?

[Wolfgang_P]

Hi,

when I run a livestream I usually start an ec2 instance and copy the public dns name to a database, where I pull it via php to display the stream with a flash viewer at my website.

Works perfectly, and I don't mess with the settings of the preinstalled wowza server.

Now I'd like to get the current number of viewers by php or javascript to display it and for other statistical use besides cacti.

is there a more-or-less easy way to get the number of current viewers (total) of a running stream?

[rogerlittin]

There are xml live stats available at http://wowza-ip:8086/connectioncounts.

You will need to set a user name and password in conf/admin.password. It defaults to digest authentication but you can set it to basic authentication by editing VHost.xml and setting the AuthenticationMethod to admin-basic or disable it by setting it to none.

All these settings can be made when you start an ec2 instance by using a custom startup package. refer to the EC2 users guide for instructions.