Is it possible to use wowza to listen for a particular .m3u8 stream and push it to youtube

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi,

I have an existing streaming infrastructure set up on ubuntu 18 using nginx, I wanted to ask if it is possible for wowza to listen for an existing/external m3u8 stream url to broadcast and then push it to youtube?

If so how may I go about it?

Thanks

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Hi @Dan Agaba, you can try the HLS .stream file option for ingest and then they would set-up a stream target for output to Youtube:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-create-and-use-stream-files-in-wowza-streaming-engine-manager

Under media Caster types:

applehls (supported in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0.01 and later). Apple HLS streams pulled from a live source.

The caveat being that a .stream file will constantly be checking for a connection and it is not recommended to leave a .stream file enabled unless the source is available

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The follow up on that is to use REST-API to automate the enabling of the .stream file once some external mechanism verifies that source is available.

This HLS ingest doesn’t work with everything it has been tried with and this is only for live streams.

If you run into an issue setting this up, submit a support ticket @Dan Agaba and our engineers said they’d be happy to test this out with you. Hope this helps.

https://www.wowza.com/support/open-ticket

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Hi Rose,

I’m currently trying pretty much the same workflow - ingest HLS as a Live Stream with multiple profiles works so far, but i don’t have any audio. is there a simple way to overcome this? or do i need to open a support ticket for this?

Thanks,