I am looking for a way to overlay a watermark / logo onto each stream from my server. Both live and on demand.
I am also going to need to know how to insert ads later.
Thanks
There is not an easy way to add watermarking server side with Wowza Pro. To actually insert it into the stream would require decoding and re-encoding the video. Wowza Pro provides the hooks to get access to the video but we do not include video transcoding and overlay features.
Watermarking is very easy to do client side. It is really an integral part of the Flash player. Take a look at the Flash documentation.
Inserting ads can be accomplished by communicating with the Flash player client and telling it to start to play an ad. When the add is finished to play the live stream. Take a look at the IClient.send() or IApplicationInstance.broadcastMsg() server side API.
Charlie
All you need to do is stack an image on top the video frame in the Flash editor. There really is no magic here. I am not sure what else to describe. Your best bet is to get a good Flash book to learn more about the client side of Flash.
Charlie
Thanks alot charlie…
Can you provide more informaiton on client side watermarking. eg. adding a logo onto each stream?
Thanks…
Yossi