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How Wowza can switch from primary to backup when stream registered in StartupStreams?

Hello.

We have 2 licensed wowza servers. Origin and edge.

We have 2 channels between them: inner and outer (by inet).

According to this arcticle I want to use our channels from the StartupStreams.xml to solve problem with Request Timeout on cupertino stream.

Sometimes our inner channel down and we’ve use outer channel.

What I have to read in *.stream file that wowza automatically switches from inner channel to outer channel?

For example:

in my StartupStreams.xml:

live/definst

rtp

myChannel.stream

in \Wowza Media Server\content\myChannel.stream:

rtsp://inner_ip:1935/app_name/myChannel

rtsp://outer_ip:1935/app_name/myChannel

Is it right metod or I need to use another one?

Thanks a lot!

Hi Denis,

I think stream failover in a .stream file only works for live-repeater, but not for rtsp according to my test.

At present this is the way to achieve failover:

How to configure a live stream repeater

Salvadore

Hi, Salvadore!

We have 2 servers. On both of them Wowza Media Server 3.1.2.16 build3037

On our origin server:

liverepeater-origin

cupertinostreamingpacketizer, sanjosestreamingpacketizer, smoothstreamingpacketizer

On our edge server:

liverepeater-edge

sanjosestreamingrepeater,cupertinostreamingrepeater,smoothstreamingrepeater

wowz://inner_ip:1935/app_name|wowz://outer_ip:1935/app_name

inner_ip - is inner IP of the Origin server.

outer_ip - is outer IP of the Origin server.

Thanks!