Starting and stoping live streams programmatically

[ztatic]

I need to start and stop a live stream programmatically.

I've been told before to look into HTTPProviders for this, which appear to allow me to create an API to interact with as far as I can tell, and the authentication would work the same way that it does for the localhost:8500/streammanager interface (am I right here?).

My question is that if the HTTPProvider allows me to create a streammanager like API, then why can't I just use the streammanger API?

It looks like I just need to create a form post to the 'streamAction' page with the right data and that would work? assuming I get the authentication part working right.. does anyone have any tips on how to do this authentication too, if it is possible?

Thanks,

[rrlanham]

If you are stopping and starting MediaCaster streams, e.g. IP camera or mpeg-ts stream, then you can use StreamManager.

If you are talking about stopping and starting RTMP or RTP push encoder, a software or hardware encoder that is pushing a stream to Wowza, StreamManager or HTTPProvider won't work.

Richard

[ztatic]

If you are stopping and starting MediaCaster streams, e.g. IP camera or mpeg-ts stream, then you can use StreamManager.

This one, IP camera.

How can I use the streammanager? is it possible to make a http request to get these start/stop actions done?

[ztatic]

Is it possible to execute actions on the streammanager via command line? http request (appears so)? or programmatically via Java class living in the same Java environment or something?

[lisa_w]

You can use HTTP requests and send those requests to the Stream Manager or use the MediaCaster API directly to stop/start streams.

-Lisa

[ztatic]

Since we want to be able to scale (ie: introduce as many wowza servers as we want), I'm thinking http requests would be a better method. This does look possible, if I read the html source code for the stream manager, but is there not any documentation for this?

[rrlanham]

The MediaCaster API which StreamManager uses is very simple really:

http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....-stop-a-stream

Richard