Hi,
after our CDN packed up (SimpleCDN) we decided to go for a dedicated server and host our livestream on there.
However neither me nor my friend, who owns the server, know much about Wowza media servers (except for the fact that our previous stream was hosted on one).
So we set up the livestream as per the guidelines found here https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder and all seemed to be working fine.
BTW I’m pushing from FMLE 3.1 and we have Wowza Flash Media Server 2.1.2 installed.
The specs for the server are:
IBM Blade
Intel Xeon 2.33GHz
2GB DDR
Win Server 2008
70GB HDD
The problem we are facing now is that the livestream is delayed immensely!
Sometimes by up to ten minutes whereas our old server would give us delays of max 15 seconds.
I know there are settings on the player side which can be changed but I tried two different players and both gave me the delayed result.
For some odd reason we noticed that it doesn’t drop any frames but just buffers everything. It’s like the server is having difficulties capturing the stream from the encoder and wants to make sure it grabs everything.
On FMLE I’ve been getting these funny notifications for which I couldn’t find an explanation:
Fri Dec 17 2010 13:33:15 : Primary - More than 50 % of the specified threshold values (Max buffer size 512000 KB or Max buffer duration 3600 sec) of RTMP buffer reached. Current network conditions are unfavorable to publish data at the specified bitrate. RTMP buffer will be flushed and streams will be re-published when the threshold value is reached.
Fri Dec 17 2010 15:32:06 : Primary - More than 70 % of the specified threshold values (Max buffer size 512000 KB or Max buffer duration 3600 sec) of RTMP buffer reached. Current network conditions are unfavorable to publish data at the specified bitrate. RTMP buffer will be flushed and streams will be re-published when the threshold value is reached.
Fri Dec 17 2010 17:11:26 : Primary - More than 90 % of the specified threshold values (Max buffer size 512000 KB or Max buffer duration 3600 sec) of RTMP buffer reached. Current network conditions are unfavorable to publish data at the specified bitrate. RTMP buffer will be flushed and streams will be re-published when the threshold value is reached.
Fri Dec 17 2010 18:00:46 : Primary - RTMP buffer exceeded the specified threshold values (Max buffer size 512000 KB or Max buffer duration 3600 sec). Flushing the RTMP buffer and re-publishing the streams.
Fri Dec 17 2010 18:00:51 : Primary - Network Status: NetConnection.Connect.Closed status
Our server is running on a 100mbit line and we’ve been notified that our max strain on there was 30mbit.
If anyone knows what the problem is can you please help us out!!
Thanks