RTMP live -> Wowza -> IP Camera protocol -> Wirecast

[Anders_Odman]

HI,

Is it possible to make a live application publish the stream with an IP-Camera protocol to be seen by Wirecast 4?

This would let me mix a live strem with recorded stuff in Wirecast and making a new live stream.

Telestream support seem to avoid getting technical about the protocol and suggests using Desktop Presenter to catch a player playing the first stream and moving it into wirecast.

This setup results in double compression, so I want to avoid it.

[Ian_Beyer]

Does wirecast have RTMP ingest? That would be the best bet if it’s an option. Using Desktop Presenter probably would yield a suboptimal stream quality due to frame rates.

I know that xSplit has an RTMP ingest capability, but I haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, so I can’t say how well it works.

-Ian

[Ian_Beyer]

Most IP cameras that I know of publish via RTSP. There are a few oddball ones out there that publish with something else.

If you’re mixing sources, you’re re-encoding anyway. However, Wirecast 4 uses the MainConcept SDK for its encoding/decoding, which is also used in several high-end commercial encoders, so the results should be pretty good (Prior to V4, Wirecast used Quicktime’s encoder, which was mind-numbingly bad)

-Ian

[Anders_Odman]

No, as of now, there are three ways of getting an IP-based stream into Wirecast.

• Desktop presenter

• IP Camera

• Telestream Pipeline

The one that interests me is the IP Camera input. But I don’t know what protocol it exspects.

The form only asks for an IP adress.

So how do IP Cameras publish themselves?

Thanx for the tip on XSplit. Unfortunately, Im on OS X…

// A