Adaptive Bitrate on a Wowza instance

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Can you apply adaptive bitrate on the “standard” version of Wowza on AWS? if not how can you achieve it?

2

Hi,

You can create your own ABR file by incorporating a number of streams with different bit rates into a smil file,

e.g. if you have a number of streams with different bit rates, or a number of video assets with different bit rates, a simple smil file like this will be all you need:

<smil>
   <head>
   </head>
<body>
  <switch>
     <video src="hi-livestream" system-bitrate="500000"/>
     <video src="lo-livestream" system-bitrate="250000"/>
  </switch>
</body>
</smil>

If you want Wowza to create a number of ABR outputs then you will need to add in the Transcoder AddOn. This will create a number of keyframe aligned streams from a single source, that again you can put into a smil file.

This document describes the various scenarios. Some (such as The Transcoder) may not be available as part of your “standard” version.

I’d recommend contacting sales@wowza.com with a list of your requirements and they’ll point you in the right direction.

Paul

3

Great respons TXS:)