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FFMPEG to Wowza - Localhost streaming

Hello,

I’m using FFMPEG to generate mpegts stream and I want to stream this to Wowza for HLS streaming. Both FFMPEG and Wowza sit on the same system. I figured out the only way to connect FFMPEG to Wowza is as per the tutorial https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder

I was wondering since I have to stream to localhost, what is the most efficient way? How can I avoid packet loss here if my system is connected to a distributed network(where there are chances of packet loss) Should I set the Host IP as 127.0.0.1 or my actual IPv4 IP of 192.168.53.35 or both are same?I basically wanted to make sure that no packet gets lost since I’m doing a UDP streaming here to the same system

Your replies will greatly help me to set up a streaming infrastructure

~Jagadish

Jagadish,

If FFmpeg is running on the same server there should not be any packet loss between FFmpeg and Wowza. You can log packet loss to be sure:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-turn-on-an-rtp-jitter-buffer-and-packet-loss-logging-rtp-and-mpeg-ts

Rihcard