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Live -> VoD

I’m learning the capabilities of Wowza with the aim of recommending it for a parliamentary live/VoD application. I think it’s a typical application whereby a live stream is recorded and made available for VoD soon after. After a bit of looking through the forums, I still have a question:

Is it possible with just the Wowza Streaming Engine to automatically capture a live ABR stream, and have it made available for ABR VoD without any intervention?

I understand that the live transcoding to the ABR files requires the Transcoder addon, and that a SMIL file is required before players can access it.

Can I confirm that Wowza doesn’t (yet) do this creation of the SMIL file?

I notice that EnsembleVideo and Kaltura have Wowza integration, and this automatic Live -> VoD process is a feature there. If I need this feature do I have to invest in one of these CMSs? Are there other solutions/addons I should look at?

thanks - George

Hi George,

Take a look at this guide:

How to use Java API calls to resolve SMIL file requests (AMLST)

Salvadore

The VOD files will not be available until the live stream has stopped.

You could record segments of the live stream, might be a work around.

Salvadore

cheers Salvadore, thanks for the fast reply.

So would a live recording have to be stopped/completed before an AMLST call to a VOD app would succeed?