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Multicast Across GRE/IPSec into WowzaRunning in AWS

We have a device that multi-casts live video in the LAN connected to AWS through VPN. We get the multicast video into Wowza by running a local ffmpeg process that takes the multi-cast feed and uni-casts it across the VPN to Wowza. This has the following problems:

  1. The ffmpeg introduces another point of failure.

  2. The ffmpeg introduces another component that needs to be configured.

  3. The ffmpeg introduces another transcoding and injects delay into getting the live stream to Wowza.

I was wondering if was possible to replace the VPN connection with a GRE/IPSec tunnel that will allows the ability to get rid of intermediate ffmpeg process and multi-cast directly into Wowza. Has anyone ever done this?

Tim

Hello Tim,

Amazon documentation states that multicast is not supported on a VPC at this time.

Amazon FAQ

Best regards,

Andrew