Push/publish/annouce/connect/stream from Axis cam to RTSP streaming server.

[system]

Hello,

I am a developer with a question about configuring an axis camera to stream to an RTSP streaming server.

If I can get the Axis camera to stream to my RTSP server (thus avoiding firewall/router config)—I can then set Wowza to stream the RTSP feeds from my streaming server/proxy with ease.

I would like to configure the camera to push/publish/announce or connect to the streaming server in order to avoid having to deal with firewalls and routers.

Is this possible? How can I make the Axis cam send the stream to the RTSP server or proxy?

Thanks.

[Charlie_Good]

With the Axis cameras you can only pull the stream from the camera. You cannot push the stream from the camera to Wowza Media Server. See the instructions here. We have suggested a configuration that uses RTSP/RTP interleaving which will send the RTP packets over the TCP connection. This should alleviate some of your firewall concerns:

http://www.wowza.com/community/t/-/53

Charlie

[Charlie_Good]

Wow, I have no idea.

Charlie

[Richard_Lanham]

This type IP camera doesn’t “push” a stream, it just has an IP address that the stream can be pulled from, for example by a Wowza rtp-live application. So you can’t do it on the camera side

I’m not sure about the rtsp server, I assume it can pull the stream also. But I wonder if that solves anything.

Richard

[Jason_Phillips]

I am trying to accomplish the same thing, and curious if you ever came up with a work-around?

Socks, pptp, tunneling. These seem to be the only options to achieve this. Any info would be greatly appriciated

[Charlie_Good]

Wowza cannot push to another media server at this time. We are considering adding this feature to the server sometime after we release Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced. For now the only way to do this is to have the destination server pull the stream from Wowza Media Server.

Charlie

[Richard_Lanham]

You could use origin/edge configuration where the local Wowza Server is the origin. See User Guide for setting up origin/edge in the “Multiple Server Live Streaming (Live Stream Repeater)” section.

Richard

[Richard_Lanham]

Richeal,

There is no need to duplicate. Take a look at this post:

http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7208#2

Richard

[Richard_Lanham]

Wowza can pull an RTSP stream in some cases, for example IP cameras with built-in h.264 support like some Axis cameras. However not from Windows Media Services.

See this guide:

http://www.wowza.com/community/t/-/247

Richard

[Chad_Halvorson]

Just thought of something else… Anyone familiar with SOCKS and the Axis cameras?

Couldn’t I just create a tunnel to a proxy using the SOCKS setting on the Axis camera and then access the camera from the proxy?

These seems like it should work.

What do I need to setup on my proxy/ssh (ubuntu server) end to get the Axis cam’s SOCKS Setting to work?

[Ego_van_Doornik]

Hello,

If we stream from the axis camera to a local Wowza server, can we then push the stream from the local Wowza to a Wowza server we host on the internet?

If that is possible we also can avoid the firewall/router/NAT issues.

Is it possible? How should we setup the local wowza server to push the stream to another wowza server?

Thanks

[Ego_van_Doornik]

Thanks for the quick response. I hope you will add this feature soon. It will do the job for us.

[Richeal_Fan]

Can origin/edge configuration really work with ip camera?

I have tried, it didn’t.

Any suggestions to do this issue?

And also, how to use a wowza server to pull stream from another wowza server?

Thank you.

[Richeal_Fan]

Can origin/edge configuration really work?

I have tried that, but it didn’t.I know it works based on encoder, but not with ip camera.

Any suggestions about the issue?

How can I get ip camera and multiservers work?

And how to pull stream from one wowza server to another?If there is not push model.

I am using wowza server 2.0.0 now.

Thank you.

[Ron_Harper]

Wowza cannot push to another media server at this time. We are considering adding this feature to the server sometime after we release Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced. For now the only way to do this is to have the destination server pull the stream from Wowza Media Server.

Charlie

Can Wowza pull from another media server (rtsp media stream)? Does Wowza Server accept incoming streams from another media server that use the same protocols? (i.e. I need Wowza to pull a live rtsp media stream from Windows Media Services?)

Thanks, Ron