Hi,
is it possible to distribute a live on linkedin from wowza streaming engine or only via wowza streaming cloud?
thanks
Great question to ask @Davide_Rendina since we only have documentation on that for Streaming cloud. We had only set up an official integration with them for Cloud, but you CAN do it in Streaming Engine and you would send it as RTMP.
Here is the important part though: you need to get permission from LinkedIn live.
Here’s the article for how to obtain permission on LinkedIn Live.
Hello,
I have configured an RTMP Stream Target to push stream from Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.17+1 (build 20211216162410) to LinkedIn, but it’s not working, I got these errors:
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PushPublishRTMP.Reconnector[[Sample_LinkedIn_LIVE] rtmps://82b14d177742407xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.channel.media.azure.net:2935/live/3610936b41244xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]: RTMP Session failed to connect. Retrying in 15187 msec
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NetConnectionConnection.connect: Failed to connect[address:82b14d177742407xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.channel.media.azure.net:2935 SSL:true] : java.nio.channels.UnresolvedAddressException|at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.checkAddress(Unknown Source)|at java.base/sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(Unknown Source)|at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.SocketConnector.connect(SocketConnector.java:157)|at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.SocketConnector.connect(SocketConnector.java:120)|at com.wowza.wms.netconnection.NetConnectionConnection.connect(NetConnectionConnection.java:134)|at com.wowza.wms.netconnection.NetConnection.connect(NetConnection.java:141)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.rtmp.PushPublishRTMP.internalConnect(PushPublishRTMP.java:1641)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.rtmp.PushPublishRTMP$Reconnector.run(PushPublishRTMP.java:1158)|at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|
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Are you sure that Wowza Engine is compatible with LinkedIn Live? Did you try it? I had tested the same rtmps URL using OBS and it works fine, but not using Wowza.
Thanks !
Mehdi
Hello @Mehdi_Mastouri, we only offer this through direct integration through Streaming Cloud right now and it requires special account permissions.
First, request access to the live video broadcasting feature on LinkedIn. See Applying for Live Video Broadcasting to request approval. LinkedIn Live is only available to a limited group of members and organizations.
Once you are approved to use LinkedIn Live, email cloud-preview@wowza.com to request access to the Wowza Streaming Cloud private preview for LinkedIn Live stream targets. Participation is by invitation only and is subject to the terms of the Wowza Preview End User License Agreement.
https://www.wowza.com/docs/stream-to-linkedin-live-from-wowza-streaming-cloud
Perhaps someone else in the community has a way to do it with Engine through your own personal accounts, but I don’t have anything to share that officially support. I think you still need permission from LinkedIn.
We do have this option as well to stream to LinkedIn live from an existing transcoder in Streaming Cloud:
Hello @Rose_Power-Wowza_Com,
I already have access to the live video broadcasting feature on LinkedIn. I also have all necessary rights from Wowza Cloud, I have already created several LinkedIn LiveStreams with Wowza Cloud…
My question here is about Wowza Engine, I see in your comment here that it is possible to do a LinkedIn Live throw Wowza Engine and custom RTMP Stream Target, but it doesn’t work for me and I need your help to do it.
Wowza Cloud doesn’t allow to schedule a LinkedIn Live.
I want to schedule the event on LinkedIn and I cannot do it with Wowza Cloud.
Thanks,
Mehdi
Unfortunately am not near a computer so I. Ant do more on testing out, ur if scheduling is the only blockade you should see if there are apis to start stop the broadcasting or api to prepare the setup etc. then use a third party cloud scheduler on gcp or aws or azure to trigger the automation of rest api.
I have asked the technical team, they took the opportunity to create this article :
How to configure an RTMPS Stream Target for LinkedIn Live
https://support.wowza.com/hc/en-us/articles/4637736045723-LinkedIn-Custom-RTMP-Target-Configuration
As you can see you need to copy the StreamKey (or StreamName) into ApplicationName: you have to put live/1_wxy234z_5 instead of live.
Thanks !
Mehdi
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