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Publish FLV stream to RTMP Wowza

Hey!

I am publishing a RTMP stream from avconv using the following command;

avconv -i http://10.0.0.101:2004/bysid/10 -acodec libfaac -acodec libfaac -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -filter:v yadif -b:v 900k -preset superfast -threads 4 -bt 2500 -qcomp 0.7 -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1/live/myStream

This makes a RTMP stream available at rtmp://127.0.0.1/live/myStream .

RTMPDUMP works on that address correctly.

I can play the stream in VLC using the following link;

http://127.0.0.1:1935/live/myStream/playlist.m3u8

All of this is working good and Im really close to purchase wowza, but there is 1 thing missing.

I wish to be able to “wget” the actual flv as well, so I need to know which URL holds the actual stream,

it should be something like http://127.0.0.1:someport/myStream.flv (i.e. I do NOT want a playlist file, I want to provide the ACTUAL file over http), how do I do this?

I fully understand the possibility to “steal” streams if I do this, but this is how I want it to behave.

wget will not work with Wowza. You have to use a web server to do that.

Richard

That would essentially be progressive download, which is not supported in Wowza. A work-around is to install a web server on the same machine and map the Wowza content location to a web folder.

Richard

You can record the streams on the Wowza server using one of the *record StreamTypes mentioned in the user guide. Or using the LiveStreamRecord addon module. Then you can make these recordings available on your web server.

You can also use a third party utility such as ffmpeg or VLC to record live streams to a file.

wget will not work with Wowza. You have to use a web server to do that.

Richard

It doesnt need to support wget specifically, but I wish to know the exact url to where the stream is located so that I can open it in vlc like;

http://wowza: port/myStream.flv

without the playlist file etc

Yes, that option would be viable, but how does one “map the content”, when the content are not actual files, but published live streams?