I’m looking in to moving my streaming service from Unreal Media Server to Wowza, I’ve found UMS to be pretty flaky at times and expect Wowza to be a much more stable solution. I would like to check first that Wowza will suit my needs, I run a webcam live streaming service for UK schools which comes with a few technical hurdles.
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Schools currently connect their USB webcams (most are analog cams with a video-to-usb dongle) to my UMS server over TCP port 5130, using either Unreal Live Server or Adobe FMLE. Think I know the answer here, but I take it Wowza is fine to use with Adobe FMLE? I could provide each school with a profile xml file to load, to make it easy for them.
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I stream the RTMP streams from school webcams through port 80 on my UMS server, on to my website. The vast majority of schools here have every non-standard port blocked by default, so they can’t watch any streams through other ports. Can Wowza stream RTMP over port 80 ok (I will not need to run a web server off my media server)?
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As noted in point 1, schools connect their webcams through port 5130, which means they have to request this port is opened by their network service provider (this can be a proper headache at times). If I’m streaming over port 80, is there another commonly open port I could have schools connect to if they want to stream, which would mean they wouldn’t have to get it opened?
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UMS is very hit and miss with HLS. I really need these streams to be viewable across all come devices and browsers. Is Wowza easy to set up to enable this?
Many thanks in advance.