Okay, this may seem like a very basic/silly question, but it’s been bugging me for some time now. What, exactly, is the difference between streaming using LIVE vs streaming using RTPLIVE. Over a year ago I set up a test using RTPLIVE – basically, just to webcast a small music festival. It worked an…

Take a look starting at page 30 of the User’s Guide. This should help to answer your question. It should cover this topic. https://www.wowza.com/docs/user-guides Charlie

The practical reason to use StreamType live instead of rtp-live is if you are doing HTTP streaming (Cupertino, Smooth or Sanjose). In that case, if you use rtp-live and a Flash client is first to stream the MediaCaster system starts the stream, then later when that client disconnects the MediaCaster…

Charlie I’m not sure I follow… the User Guide I’m looking at (at page 29) starts the Advanced Configuration Topic (page 30 starts the discussion on Live Stream Repeaters). Page 22 comes the closest to answering my question, as it talks about “Stream Types” and states the following: live - Publish…

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David_Good May 13, 2011, 10:36pm 5

Richard

Thanks! That’s exactly the type of information I was looking for. An example like that is something I can wrap my brain around.

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