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Windows Media Server to Wowza,possible?

Hey,

I’m excited with the wowza 3 release and was stunned seeing the transcoder option,im already a license(wowza 2) but would like to get the wowza 3 if the following works…

Can this transcoder transcode mms/rtsp streams coming from windows media server and give out in h.264/aac?

all i need is a yes or no… thanks a lot guys and great work !

learner!

MMS ingest is not supported, but I think re-streaming RTSP from Windows Media Server in a Wowza application with Transcoder enabled might work.

Richard

If there are corresponding .unbind statements just after those with no “firstPacket: TCP:$0” in between, then UDP ports are blocked.

Try adding forceInterleaved Property to /conf/[app-name]/Application.xml /MediaCaster /Properties list, to re-stream over TCP instead:

<MediaCaster>
<Properties>
<Property>
	<Name>forceInterleaved</Name>
	<Value>true</Value>
	<Type>Boolean</Type>
</Property>
</Properties>
</MediaCaster>

Richard

Hi LearnerDev,

Check the Transcoder User Guide, page 9 at the time of this writing, to ensure that your incoming stream to Wowza is using supported codecs.

You can use ffmpeg, vlc, handbrake, etc… You can convert to H.264/AAC right in the VLC GUI. Media menu -> Convert/Save.

thank you richard,

I will try and let you know. :slight_smile:

and if anyone already got it working,please share :slight_smile:

Ldev

duh! its not working :frowning:

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[33084848:live/definst:tstream.stream]: start: 14

INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.add[rtsp://127.0.0.1:554/teststream]: 1

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.buildSDPData: sessionId:10425233155628261613 sessionTimeout:60000

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo[live/definst]: RTSP/RTP re-streaming. Success, received SDP data.

INFO stream create - -

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7136

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7137

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7142

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7143

WARN server comment - Failed to find an appropriate depacketizer for this track (x-wms-rtx)

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7138

INFO server comment - RTPUDPTransport.bind[live/definst]: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:7139

could you help please…

I added the property but now new error pops up :frowning:

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.create[14736751]

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.init[14736751]

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]: start: 1

INFO server comment - HTTPStreamManager.onHTTPRequest: Publish stream successfully started [live/definst]: flv:test.stream

INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.add[rtsp://127.0.0.1/teststream]: 1

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.buildSDPData: sessionId:358144470473742159 sessionTimeout:60000

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo[live/definst]: RTSP/RTP re-streaming. Success, received SDP data.

INFO stream create - -

WARN server comment - Failed to find an appropriate depacketizer for this track (x-wms-rtx)

INFO stream publish test.stream -

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.sessionStart: PLAY: rtsp://127.0.0.1/teststream

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]: done: 1

INFO server comment - senderReport[RTP-Info]: audio

INFO server comment - senderReport[RTP-Info]: video

INFO server comment - firstPacket: TCP:$0

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.streamTimeout[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]: timeout:12000 diff:12500 reason:101

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.resetConnection[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]:

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.closeRTPSession[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.close closeSession

INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.onClose

INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.remove[rtsp://127.0.0.1/teststream]: 0:true

INFO stream unpublish test.stream -

INFO stream destroy test.stream -

INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[14736751:live/definst:test.stream]: start: 2

ERROR server comment - MediaCasterConnection.connect: Failed to connect[127.0.0.1:554]: org.apache.mina.common.RuntimeIOException: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: sun.nio.ch.Net.setIn

tOption

WARN server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo: RTSP/RTP re-streaming. Cannot connect to server: rtsp://127.0.0.1/teststream

ERROR server comment - MediaCasterConnection.connect: Failed to connect[127.0.0.1:554]: org.apache.mina.common.RuntimeIOException: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: sun.nio.ch.Net.setIn

tOption

ERROR server comment - MediaCasterConnection.connect: Failed to connect[127.0.0.1:554]: org.apache.mina.common.RuntimeIOException: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: sun.nio.ch.Net.setIn

tOption

ERROR server comment - MediaCasterConnection.connect: Failed to connect[127.0.0.1:554]: org.apache.mina.common.RuntimeIOException: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: sun.nio.ch.Net.setIn

tOption

I tried changing the source url to rtsp://127.0.0.1:554/teststream and rtsp://serverip/teststream still doesnt work :frowning:

and my stream from windows media services/server has WMV3 - video codec and wma2 - audio codec.

Help me out richard,thanks a ton!

thanks randall,

im totally disappointed :frowning: btw do you have any suggestion for a transcoder ?

its a live stream and any guides or anything on ffmpeg?

vlc keeps crashing every now and then :frowning:

cheers!