Control which streams get packetized for HTTP streaming with a Wowza Streaming Engine Java module

The ModulePacketizerControl module for Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software controls which streams get packetized for HTTP streaming. It can be used with Transcoder or any time you don't need all of the streams to be packetized.

Note: You can also control which streams get packetized by using ModuleTranscoderControl and which streams get recorded for DVR playback by using ModuleDvrRecorderControl.

Contents


Prerequisites
Installation
Configuration
Properties
For developers

Prerequisites


Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.0 or later is required.

Installation


  1. Download wse-plugin-packetizercontrol.zip.
     
  2. Extract the contents from the downloaded (zipped) package, and then copy the lib/wse-plugin-packetizercontrol.jar file from the package to the lib folder in your Wowza Streaming Engine installation ([install-dir]/lib).
     
  3. Restart Wowza Streaming Engine.

Configuration


To enable this module, add the following module definition to your application configuration. See Configure modules for details.

Name
Description
Fully Qualified Class Name
PacketizerControl Controls which streams get packetized for HTTP. com.wowza.wms.plugin.PacketizerControl

Properties


After enabling the module, you can adjust the default settings by adding the following properties to your application. See Configure properties for details.

Path
Name
Type
Value
Notes
/Root/Application packetizerControlSuffixes String * Can be an empty value, an "*", or a comma-separated list of name suffixes (for example: _source, _720p, _360p, _240p, _160p). The returned value is controlled by the settings of packetizerControlMatchAllow and packetizerControlNoMatchAllow. The suffixes are compared with the end of the stream name. (default: *)
/Root/Application packetizerControlMatchAllow Boolean true Controls the action after a match is found in the list of suffixes. If set to true, then the suffix list is is treated as a list of stream name suffixes that will be packetized. If set to false, then the suffix list is treated as a list of stream name suffixes that will not be packetized. If the list value is an *, then packetizerControlMatchAllow=true will be returned automatically. (default: true)
/Root/Application packetizerControlNoMatchAllow Boolean false Controls the action when no match can be found. If the list is empty, then packetizerControlNoMatchAllow=false will be returned automatically. (default: false)

For Developers


  • Get the source code on GitHub