Trying to access rtmp-stream from remote computer, the "live"-example..

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Dear Wowza forum,

I have downloaded and stated to use the Wowza server and now im trying to navigate in the jungle of different features transcoders, decoders, and encoders to be able to stream a live stream from my webcam so that it will be visible on my webpage.

I have some questions that I would be happy if you could answer:

I have installed the examples. Folders have been created in the “applications”-folder but the folder are empty some of the folders in the “applications”-folder have inner folders with the name sharedobjects but in total the size of the application folder is 0 byte. Is it supposed to be like this? Are there situations where the folders in the applications folder should have some content or are they allways supposed to be empty?

I understand the code in the “examples”-folder as the part of the applications that should normally be on the www-server such as appache. When a user goes to the webbpage of the application, by using flash or some other method get the stream from the mediastream from the wowsa server and display it on the page. Have I understood this right?

I’m trying to make a stream from my webcam to display on my webpage. I have the “live”-example on my webserver and I have installed the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2. On localhost client/live.html i can access the stream by typing rtmp://localhost/live and “livestream” (the name of the stream) in the fields. However i fail to stream from a remote computer, if I write rtmp://[my-ip-adress]/live and livestream as stream name nothing happens. I get the error message

Connection failed: Try rtmp://[server-ip-address]/live

Do you have any idea what I am possibly doing wrong? Thank you for any help.

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I have installed the examples. Folders have been created in the “applications”-folder but the folder are empty some of the folders in the “applications”-folder have inner folders with the name sharedobjects but in total the size of the application folder is 0 byte. Is it supposed to be like this? Are there situations where the folders in the applications folder should have some content or are they allways supposed to be empty?

Yes, it’s normal. Wowza will write internal data there such as SharedObjects. Generally you can just ignore the applications folder. You only have to be sure a folder with the same name as your application is created there.

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I understand the code in the “examples”-folder as the part of the applications that should normally be on the www-server such as appache. When a user goes to the webbpage of the application, by using flash or some other method get the stream from the mediastream from the wowsa server and display it on the page. Have I understood this right?

That’s right.

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I’m trying to make a stream from my webcam to display on my webpage. I get the error message

Connection failed: Try rtmp://[server-ip-address]/live

Do you have any idea what I am possibly doing wrong? Thank you for any help.

Test that you can access Wowza on port 1935 by entering the following URL into your browser on the remote machine:

http://[Wowza-server-IP]:1935

If Wowza is running you should see the Wowza version number.

Then, just follow this tutorial to stream from FMLE: Wowza RTMP Tutorial

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Test that you can access Wowza on port 1935 by entering the following URL into your browser on the remote machine:

http://[Wowza-server-IP]:1935

If Wowza is running you should see the Wowza version number.

Then, just follow this tutorial to stream from FMLE: Wowza RTMP Tutorial

Thank you for your answer. Wowsa is working and I can access the stream at localhost, but I can not display the stream from a remote computer. Is it so that the “Wowsa IP adress” is the same as the same as the IP of my computer or is it something else? If it is something else how should figure out what it is? I have only seen references to “Wowza IP adress” without ever seeing a description what “Wowza IP adress” is so I have assumed it is the same as my normal IP when connecting from remote…

I also get a 5 sec. delay from the encoder to the display on the webserver (on localhost). Do you possibly got some idea why that might be?