Wowza IIS Smooth Streaming & iPad & iPhone..

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello all,

I am looking to get away from Flashplayer for my Vod side of the house and am looking at IIS smooth streaming. But I need it to work with the iPad as well as the iPhone… I would like to setup my wowza server / streaming client to autodapt to the current datarate between the client and the server. Any direction or best player to use would be great…

Can I create a .ism file with multi-rates in the same file and use it on a wowza server?

Thanks,

Mike

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Mike,

The .ism file will work as a smil. Use a smil: prefix.

The multi-bitrate in one file will not work.

The regular Silverlight encode methods, with separate files for each bitrate will work, but we don’t recommend it. The output of that method is fragmented mp4, which Wowza is capable of streaming, but with significant added overhead, including possible spikes at the start of playback. Follow these suggestions for Expression 4 Encoder instead:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content

Richard

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The article I pointed to is what you need. You will have to create your own smil instead of EE generated ism.

Also take a look at these posts. Basic smil file is here:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming

How to add codec and resolution for iOS

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-resolution-and-codec-metadata-to-ios-streams

Richard

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-resolution-and-codec-metadata-to-ios-streams

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Mike

You can use the same. Adding the codec and resolution should ensure that the device will only play items that it is capable of.

Richard

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Richard,

Thanks I am trying to figure out how to give better support to other devices that don’t support flash and also look at something that streams better then flash from the vod and can adapt to different data rates…

Mike

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Richard,

Can I use the same smil file for both iPad and Iphone or do I need to have to seprate ones?

Thanks,

Mike

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Richard,

Thanks… I will use EE to Encode the files and output the different rates… I will have to figure out how to encode them at baseline and main at the sametime to support both the iPad & iPhone device…

Lots to learn yet!! :slight_smile:

Mike