VLC, RTP and usernames/passwords

Wowza Streaming Engine
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This is a bit of a continuation of my previous thread, in which I try to figure out how to use VLC to generate a stream that can be sent to a 3rd party hosting provider running Wowza.

I’ve given up on using the default RTMP method that they suggest, and am instead now looking at the instructions they sent me for using an encoder like Quicktime Broadcaster and Wirecast. In those instructions they indicate:

  1. the encoder should send its content to “mysite.example.com:1935”

  2. the username and password I was given should be put in the appropriate fields in the GUI.

Now, I’m pretty sure I can get VLC to send an RTP stream to a designated host and port. The VLC GUI can generate a command line string like this:

vlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video" :v4l-adev="/dev/dsp" :v4l-norm=3 :v4l-frequency=-1 :sout=#duplicate{dst=std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst:1935=mysite.example.com}}

which makes it look like the output will be sent to mysite.example.com port 1935. All good and well.

But there is nowhere in the GUI where I can specify the username/password, however. Does VLC not support that?

In which case, I may just be completely out of luck - there may not BE a way on Linux to generate a stream that can be sent to a hosting provider in the same way Adobe FMLE or Quicktime Broadcaster does.

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Username/password if I remember correctly is just added to the URL by those apps. Somewhere around here is some docs on it. (may even be in the Wowza documentation).

Or one of the longer term forum members can chime in with a link to where it is. But I’m pretty sure the user/pass auth stuff is just added to the URL you’re sending to.

–chris

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Hi Any updates on this issue ?

We also would like to use RTP stream with username/passwd authentication.

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No, we just use OBS Broadcaster now, which works fine.