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mounting live streams to wowza4

hi guys,

I am running wowza 4.0 and one of our partner exposes live streams using http protocol for mpeg-ts and hls format.

http://bgsf.redist.iptvdc.com/islambox/c5fefcbac69f553c2fd9af2466fa7480

http://bgsf.hls.iptvdc.com/islambox/732/play.m3u8

How can i mount above streams to wowza so i can serve them on different platforms used by our customers (android, ios, web:rtmp) if i need to transcode them using wowza encoder addon that is available free with wowza 4 then let me know and give me some points how to configure it.

-Khurram

Hello,

HLS is not a supported input format but mpeg-ts is. You can make use of a stream file to pull an mpeg-ts stream into Wowza Streaming Engine and stream to the different platforms mentioned.

I suggest that you configure the transcoder in order to do Adaptive Bitrate streaming. This will provide lower resolution/bitrate streams for mobile devices and players with low bandwidth connections. You may find the following articles helpful in setting up this process:

How to play your first live stream

How to do adaptive bitrate streaming

Best regards,

Andrew

Hi,

One technique would be to use FFMPEG to restream into Wowza Streaming Engine. See this guide more more information on possible commands.

There’s also a third party module that could do it available here.

Daren

Hi,

Wowza Streaming Engine can’t ingest video streams using HTTP protocol.

For MPEG-TS you’ll need to use UDP in the .stream file.

Regards,

Jason

andrew my friend,

If this mpeg-ts works with http protocol i will officially declare you life saver around the globe.

let me test it.

-Khurram

its not working in first test.

content of najam1.stream

http://bgsf.redist.iptvdc.com/islambox/969ecd6cb9e136ed0fd042ccf5cc057b

content of najam1.smil

sorry for late reply problem is stream provider is publishing mpeg-ts stream over http protocol and they will not change it to UDP. any workaround ?