Trying to verify MPEG TS stream target with VLC

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi

We are testing wowza stream engine 30 day trial right now. Our main goal is to send a live MP4 live stream and retransmit stream out as MPEG TS using MPEG 2 format.

I was able to setup the the incoming steam with no issues. I setup the generic MPEG TS transport stream and says active.

I wanted to test the output stream using VLC on my laptop. I told VLC to open network stream Udp://@:55125.

I get the stream but VLC codec says its still in MP4 format and not MPEG 2. I attached a screen shot of the wowza target stream setup and VLC codec.

How can retransmit an MPEG TS transport stream as MPEG 2 inside Wowza Stream Engine and not MP4?

thanks

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Checking if this is possible…

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Did you try to play this any of the Wowza test players and if so what were the results? Is this just happening with VLC player?

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Also, I am getting a little confused on the “live MP4” in your post @Aaron Varnam vs the screenshot of a live application. Are you trying to send recorded video through a mp4 container and send it out as Mpeg-TS chunks? Can you please confirm your workflow? Thanks.

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Confirmed with our engineers that you can publish the mp4 as a live stream using the Stream Publisher module and then use an MPEG-TS Stream Target to output the MPEG-TS.

If you’re trying to re-stream a video on demand (VOD) asset as a live stream for use with an MPEG-TS stream target, see Schedule streaming with a Wowza Streaming Engine Java module.

Here is some sample code on GitHub for you as well.

As far as it not playing as MPEG-2 on VLC Player, you’ll need to submit a support ticket so we can fully view your config and logs. Thanks @Aaron Varnam

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