Wowza EC2 instance recording and S3 bucket

Wowza Streaming Engine
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We want to use Wowza to record our streams which captures a webcam. In the past we’ve done so with another provider, but now we use an EC2 instance (54.83.134.13). I’ve managed to see incoming streams using the manager, but how do I set it up in the manager so:

  • It records .mp4 from the incoming rtmp stream (I believe I’ve set that up)

  • The S3 gets the recorded file on completion (or direct)

  • We can play the file over http from the S3 (progressive download, no stream)

    Thanks!

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Hi Dennis,

As a prerequisite, you must mount an S3 bucket to the OS using a system like s3fs. More info here:

Mounting an Amazon S3 bucket on your Amazon Machine Image

The module, ModuleMediaWriterFileMover, will move completed files when a live stream recording is completed:

How to move recordings from live streams (ModuleMediaWriterFileMover)

To playback from S3, use the vods3 application that is included with our pre-built AMI’s:

How to use Amazon S3 with Wowza Media Server

-Tim