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VOD not working

I installed Wowza on Ubuntu in Vmware but I can’t play the test video at all. I tried playing it using a firefox browser within the ubuntu vmware and also tried from the host OS (Windows). The Adobe RTMP, Adobe HDS and MS Smooth player launched successfully but nothing stream. I attach the screenshot here. Please can anyone tell me why it’s not streaming. When I clicked start, it only shows current bitrate = 0kbps and no video shows up.

Thanks.

Adobe RTMP:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ocjwhlzdlx7dv8g/rtmp.PNG

Adobe HDS:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/trig7n6zxet0k8n/hds.PNG

MS Smooth:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7mwvnlm1w1z2jud/ms.PNG

Do you see any clues as to what this issue may be in the logs?

Also, it may be that you need to white list your IP address as per this guide:

How to connect to remote Streaming Engine installations (whitelist)

Salvadore

Wowza now requires ports 8086-8088 for administration and to support the REST API, which is the link between Wowza Streaming Engine and the GUI. Make sure you have these ports available on the host. As a reference:

Quick Start Guide/Configuring streaming ports

Also, make sure no other program is running on these ports.

Salvadore

You may need to forward port 1935 to the server running Wowza. You can look up your router here:

http://portforward.com

Salvadore

Hi Salvadore,

I tried to restart the stream engine and got the error below, pls what does that indicated?

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d# sudo /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine status

WowzaStreamingEngine stopped

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d#

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d#

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d#

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d#

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d#

root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d# cd /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin

root@ubuntu:/usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin# ./startup.sh

Configure logging: file:///usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/conf/log4j.properties

INFO server comment - UDPPortManager.init: UDP port sharing is enabled.

INFO server server-start Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Trial Edition (Expires: Oct 02, 2014) 4.0.3 build10989 -

INFO server comment - Server License Key: ET1A4-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-kBmnE

INFO server comment - Maximum Connections: 10

INFO server comment - Maximum Incoming Streams: 3

INFO server comment - Transcoder Streams Available: Transcoder Not Available (linux-32)

INFO server comment - nDVR Available: Yes

INFO server comment - DRM Available: Yes

INFO server comment - HTTP Origin Available: No

INFO server comment - Push Publish Available: Yes

INFO server comment - REST API Available: Yes

INFO server comment - Hardware Available Processors: 1

INFO server comment - Hardware Physical Memory: 416MB/1000MB

INFO server comment - Hardware Swap Space: 854MB/1021MB

INFO server comment - Max File Descriptor Count: 20000

INFO server comment - Open File Descriptor Count: 66

INFO server comment - OS Name: Linux

INFO server comment - OS Version: 3.11.0-15-generic

INFO server comment - OS Architecture: i386

INFO server comment - Java Name: OpenJDK Server VM

INFO server comment - Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.

INFO server comment - Java Version: 1.6.0_30

INFO server comment - Java VM Version: 23.25-b01

INFO server comment - Java Spec Version: 1.6

INFO server comment - Java Home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre

INFO server comment - Java Max Heap Size: 687MB

INFO server comment - Java Architecture: 32

INFO server comment - Java Locale[user.language]: en

INFO server comment - Java Locale[user.country]: US

INFO server comment - Java Locale[file.encoding]: UTF-8

INFO server comment - Java Timezone[user.timezone]: Africa/Lagos

INFO server comment - Java Args[0]: -Xmx700M

INFO server comment - Java Args[1]: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

INFO server comment - Java Args[2]: -XX:+UseParNewGC

INFO server comment - Java Args[3]: -XX:NewSize=128m

INFO server comment - Java Args[4]: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

INFO server comment - Java Args[5]: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true

INFO server comment - Java Args[6]: -Dcom.wowza.wms.runmode=standalone

INFO server comment - Java Args[7]: -Dcom.wowza.wms.native.base=linux

INFO server comment - Java Args[8]: -Dcom.wowza.wms.AppHome=/usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine

INFO server comment - Java Args[9]: -Dcom.wowza.wms.ConfigURL=

INFO server comment - Java Args[10]: -Dcom.wowza.wms.ConfigHome=/usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine

INFO server comment - Server runmode: standalone

INFO server comment - Server native.platform: linux

INFO server comment - Server threads[h/t]: 120/80

INFO server comment - RESTServer: Bind attempt ([any]:8087)

WARN server comment - RESTServer: Bind failed, try again ([any]:8087): java.net.BindException: Address already in use|at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)|at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:174)|at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:139)|at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:77)|at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.Acceptor.bind(Acceptor.java:171)|

INFO server comment - RESTServer: Bind attempt ([any]:8087)

WARN server comment - RESTServer: Bind failed, try again ([any]:8087): java.net.BindException: Address already in use|at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)|at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:174)|at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:139)|at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:77)|at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.Acceptor.bind(Acceptor.java:171)|

Even when I access with localhost, it still gives same result. Can’t stream.

The stream engine is not starting, trace below:

root@ubuntu:/# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine status

WowzaStreamingEngine stopped

root@ubuntu:/# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine start

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Waiting for process ( 6515) to exit…

Killing process (6515) which didn’t stop after 20 seconds

WowzaStreamingEngine stopped

WowzaStreamingEngine: starting…

WowzaStreamingEngine stopped

It doesn’t start even when i tried to start it. Please what could be the issue?

I’ve opened all the necessary ports on my ubuntu machine and still can’t get the WowStreamingEngine started. I keep getting the error I pasted earlier on. Please can anyone help?