Hello,
Firstly I am a beginner at on Ec2 - and come from a video background - so I aplogies for my basic questions in advance.
We are trying to setup a live stream (which will happen in about 2 weeks) for one of our clients.
I have tested the venue and it seems that default 9935 flash port is blocked - although port 443 seems to be open. I checked this using:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16466.html
As we are going to push the stream - I need to open port 443 on the wowza Ec2 instance. I would like to open this port anyway as some viewers may well be behind firewall also blocking port 9935. The wowza instance is ami-75d7ff01- from the wowza ec2 support page.
I tried to push a stream RTMP://myinstance:443/rtplive but this failed - although 9935 worked ( as was in my office for this test)
I have ensured that port 443 is open in security group associated with instance.
Looking through some Wowzaec2 documentation it states that 443 is open for RTMPE - I assume this for encrypted rtmp sessions viewer sessions only and i cannot push a stream to this port??
When I look in Vhost.xml it is an empty file.
Can anyway tell me how I open port 443 so I can push a stream? - as well as being able to allow views to connect to port 443 ( if 9935 fails)
My second (basic question) - I was using rtplive for the test. Am a little confused about what this actually does.
RTP is a different protocol from RTMP. So when I use :
rtmp://myinstance/rtplive
Am i pushing the stream using RTMP protocol - I assume I am?
Are the viewers watching it over the RTP protocol ??- so the encoded video/audio is getting re-packaged from RTMP into RTP by the server??
is there a downside using rtplive example application for live streaming?
Is there a default RTMP live application I can use for streaming?? - if there is indeed any downside using rtplive.
Many thanks for your help - and apolgies for the basic question.
Dave