Re-streaming live from IP camera on local network

Hi Ana,

What exactly do you want to achieve?

Connect the IP camera to wowza and call the stream from anywhere in your network, but also outside your network?.

Do you want to see the stream in a browser or for example in vlc?

if so.

you have to make an application in wowza + adjust the Application.xml to your needs.

Restart wowza and just open the stream in vlc (rtsp://<ipadress_wowzaserver>:1935/streamname

if you want to see it outside your network you have to configure your router and route port 1935 to the wowza server.

if you want to see it in a webbrowser in and outside your network. at the streamname like this: rtmp://<outside_ipaddress>:1935/streamname

you could use jwplayer or flowplayer or another webplayer for this. (to be sure jwplayer6 still has problems in IE9/10, so using jwplayer5 will be more successfull)

assuming your webserver is located outside your office/home.

Just tell me what your setup is. i might can give you more detailed information.

the userguide is nice to know: http://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServer_UsersGuide.pdf

How are you starting the stream?

Are you using Stream Manager?

For the camera.stream file, you should just have the IP address of the camera:

RTSP://192.0.1.22

What type of IP camera are you using? As this may change what the URL format in the camera.stream file.

Also make sure there is not a .txt extension appended to the file name. This file should be placed in the [wowza-install-dir]/content folder

Try changing these settings back to default to test:(these settings are the default)

<RTSPBindIpAddress></RTSPBindIpAddress>
<RTSPConnectionIpAddress>0.0.0.0</RTSPConnectionIpAddress>
<RTSPOriginIpAddress>127.0.0.1</RTSPOriginIpAddress>

Salvadore

This line in the logs shows that the file can not be found:

WARN server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.processResponse: DESCRIBE: Status: 404

Make sure the camera.stream file is in the [install-dir]/content folder, if that is where your Application.xml file is pointing to under <StorageDir>

Also, I looked into your IP camera, and it shows a URL for the camera like this: rtsp://[camera-ip]:554/live.sdp

Salvadore

rtsp://184.107.212.130:554/live.sdp

You don't have to worry about your Camera ip address, because your Wowza Server will be the central server. If your server and ip camera are outside your network just use the external ip addresses or open the ports to the internal ipaddress.

Download the script from jwplayer. edit the settings to your needs and upload it to a webbrowser. for further support about Jwplayer you can go to their forum, they have plenty of examples there.

in your stream file you are using username and password. so you have setup secure streaming.

Can you tell me what is working for now?

rtsp://admin:studiom123@10.0.1.22/play1.sdp

Your example setup?

IP camera IPaddress: 10.0.1.20

Wowza Ipaddress: 10.0.1.22

webserver: ? 10.0.1.23 or an outside ip?

open the ports needed (1935, 554) in your server firewall or forward the ports to your internal wowza server.

call the stream from anywhere inside and outside your network

just use the external ipaddress from your router

or use the external ipaddress when your server is a datacenter

edit:

you didnt have the application name in your rtsp stream. it should be like this

rtsp://admin:studiom123@<external_ip_wowzaserver>/<application_name>/play1.sdp

Hi Ana,

it should be simple. instead of sending the stream to your local wowza server, send the stream to the outside wowza server

rtsp://admin:studiom123@184.107.212.130/<application_name>/play1.sdp

change <application_name> with the application you made in wowza.

after that just use vlc to test the stream

open networkstream: rtsp://admin:studiom123@184.107.212.130/<application_name>/play1.sdp

otherwise what does your wowza_access.log tell you?

or do you get any other log messages?

Hi Ana,

no problem. I went to the same struggeling with different setups. There is lots of documentation, but sometimes its hard to know which one you need.

Below i will try to display what i mean and what i think your setup is.

Your Home/Office

IP camera : 192.0.1.22

RTSP protocol (best to use port 554 or 1935 to the wowza server)

Datacenter

Wowza Server: 184.107.212.130

you don't have to open ports at your home/office router. (Firewalls only blocks Incoming ports, not outgoing). So the connection refused error is saying it can't connect to the WowzaServer. So something in your setup on the wowza servers is not ok.

I don't know what you mean with setting up the internal and external ip addresses. The servers already has those when you have installed them (static or DHCP addresses).

By the way when i look back in the tutorial i don;t see the authentication for the rtsp. maybe you got confused that the username and password is for the streammanager section.

for now i assume your application name is 'live' what makes it a bit easier to explain ;)

Try this to stream to wowza: rtsp://184.107.212.130:1935/live/camera.stream

following the tutorial: Quote:

Use a text editor to create the file [install-dir]/content/camera.stream and set the contents of this file to the full RTSP/RTP URL of the camera. The file must have a .stream filename extension. For this tutorial, the file used is camera.stream.

I think you also have to go through the tutorial again, because when using the setup like this you can't call your streamname: play.sdp because you made a camera.stream file on your wowza server. It cant find the reference. Tell me what you did with the setup step by step. If you missed one thing it just doesnt work. Dont put real usernames and passwords on the forum, but i need to know your setup in detail.

i don't have an ip camera. so testing the scenario is not possible.

Hi,

@Ana, when i try your link from your wowza server in the browser with just the port ( http://184.107.212.130:1935) it should give me the result that the wowza server is running. The result im getting is: nothing. i cant reach your server. So i think that's where the problem is already. I can't connect to your server, so the rtsp link is not working for sure. Thats what also causes the error it can't connect to the stream. did you open port 1935, 554 on the wowza server?

/usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/conf/VHost.xml

[HTML]<Root>

<VHost>

<HostPortList>

<HostPort>

<ProcessorCount>4</ProcessorCount>

<IpAddress>*</IpAddress>

<!-- Separate multiple ports with commas -->

<!-- 80: HTTP, RTMPT -->

<!-- 554: RTSP -->

<Port>554,1935</Port>

<HTTPIdent2Response></HTTPIdent2Response>

<SocketConfiguration>

[/HTML]

can you connect to your camera from outside your network in VLC? and did you try salvadore his possible solution?

Hi Ana,

do you mean the username and password are for the camera itself, or from your wowza local setup? what do your logs tell you when you connect to the stream without username and password?

ok. lets go back one step.

are you able to connect from outside your network to your ip camera? (no use of wowza)

connect:

world -> router external ip address

setup config

router external ip incoming ports. forward this port to your ip camera(internal ip address.)

that should indeed be the right setup. but its best to use static ipaddresses (you can do even when you have dhcp enabled).

i have no knowledge about apple products ;), but networking is the same to all products. you could try to change the protocol to UDP (sometimes you can select UDP/TCP or Both) and see if it gives any changes.

as soon as you start with these things networking will become an issue:D

this is the only usefull thing i could find about the router you have: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17117646#17117646 other people had no issues on a linksys router, but had issues with the apple router. the first thing you have to establish is to get direct access outside your network i guess. maybe if someone else have ideas with ip or cctv camera's i hope they will step in, i don't have one, so i can't test things out for you to get to the right settings on this. make sure your network is the right way configured: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18785952#18785952

im not sure about this, but i think wowza will PULL the stream from your home network to the wowza server. if it can;'t connect nothing will happen from there. (it has to get access to your local network on a certain port)

if you use a push stream (lets say live encoder or vlc) you will push the stream to the wowza server. outgoing push streams don't effect your firewall.

a firewall on your router is only used for INCOMING traffic. and i think that's where youre problem is.

have you tested other setups to see if wowza is working correctly?

you could use adobe live encoder for a test rtmp stream to the wowza server. at least to know if the whole wowza part is working. Sometimes to test things out you have to test something else to get to the result you want :D