Publishing to Wowza server via VLC / RTSP

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi :slight_smile:

I have rented a Streamingserver witch uses wowza to Stream Live-content to all devices possible.

In the welcome-email I revieved a Link for Publishing witch looks like this one:

rtmp://12.345.56.78/companyname-live/definst/doPublish=kjnhklKLAFGNLA

I Want to publish a file, lets call it “file1.mp4” to this wowza-instance.

And I want to use VLC for that.

I tried something like this:

vlc -vvv "C:/test.mp4" --sout "#transcode{venc=x264{keyint=60,profile=main},vcodec=x264,vb=500,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=48000}:rtp{dst=12.345.56.78/companyname-live/,port=10000,mux=ts}"

Someone told me, I sould use RTSP for publishing via VLC,

but that didnt work out either.

Can YOU give me a Hint (for example a working commandline) for setting up VLC to publish to my rented Wowza-server?

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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I started an RTSP stream in the VLC GUI and it came up with this:

:rtp{sdp=rtsp://12.345.56.78/companyname-live/_definst_/doPublish=kjnhklKLAFGNLA}:no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout-standard-sap :ttl=1 :sout-keep

Probably a better place for this sort of question is via the support resources for your service provider or VLC.

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VLC with this method does not publish to Wowza, it sends a stream to a RTSP url that you re-stream from Wowza. The RTSP URL with application name will not work. You will not see a publish event in Wowza logs when you start the stream.

Also, the following mpeg-ts method is preferred, but in this regard is the same as RTSP out from VLC, i.e., does not publish to Wowza:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts

Richard

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To configure an encoder such as Wirecast to push an RTMP stream to Wowza you enter a RTMP url/app-name, and a stream name. Then you start the stream and Wirecast pushes the stream to the Wowza application you entered. With Wowza running in stand-alone (/bin/startup.bat) mode, looking at the log output in the console, you will see a publish event in Wowza when you start the stream in Wirecast.

VLC streams to a RTSP or UDP url, not to Wowza. Wowza does not know the stream exists until you tell it where it is using StreamManager or StartUpStreams.xml

If you “rented” with no access, you should ask the owner exactly what to do.

Richard

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Yes, VLC should work:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts

Richard

6

Hm,

it doesnt really work…

If I put “rtmp://12.345.56.78/companyname-live/definst/doPublish=kjnhklKLAFGNLA” into the adress input-field of WIRECAST,

it works just that easy.

How can I get the VLC to do the same as Wirecast?

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Okay…

So whitch way you would recommend to push a video-file to Wowza using VLC?

Remeber that I only have a RENTED wowza-server, I am not able to edit ANY config-files :-/

Thanks in Advance :slight_smile:

Edit:

I dont really get the difference between “streaming” and “re-streaming”.

Re-streaming is mentioned in the article you’ve linked,

but I dont know, if thats what I am looking for…

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Hi where i can find a good program to publish to a RTCP publish point?

For windows?

Can VLC do the job? thank’s