Wowza to Cloudfront and Set-Top-Box?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hey all, I setup live streaming in AWS using a Cloudformation template. Works great. I’m trying to figure out how to have Wowza also send this stream to a set-top-box without going thru Cloudfront. I will use the Cloudfront HLS stream for my embedded player. Playing the HLS steam in my set-top-box has huge latency. I’m hoping to bypass Cloudfront to lower the latency. My set-top-box plays HLS, RTP, TS or RTMP formats.

I’m open to ideas on how to make this work. Thanks.

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Hi,

You can certainly play direct from the origin server using the protocols mentioned.

RTMP playback is quite simple to implement.

Here’s a guide for RTMP playback.

Daren

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Hi,

If you need to push the stream to the set-top box that’s listening on a multicast IP then you’ll need the Push Publishing function described here..

The function is built-in and supports pushing of RTP and MPEG-TS to supporting multicast networks.

Daren

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Daren, I agree. Playback is quite simple. I need help telling Wowza how to stream to a set-top-box listening on a static IP on port 4001.

Here’s what I’m doing:

Sending a live RTMP stream to Wowza which then goes to Cloudfront and eventually ends up as a HLS stream in my embedded player.

Here’s what I need:

Sending a live RTMP stream to Wowza. Wowza sends one stream to Cloudfront and another stream to a set-top-box listening on IP xxx.xxx.xxx.x:4001

I’m on Wowza Media Server 4. I’ve gone through the documentation. I’m confused on what is the best solution.

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Anyone??

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Here’s an update so folks know how I got this to work. As I said in my original post, I use a Cloudformation template in Amazon Web Serivices(AWS) to create a Wowza livestream to Cloudfront. The template is great because it quickly creates the necessary resources. The Bad: livestreaming had a 20-30 second delay thru Cloudfront and there was no rtmp or rtsp output stream for my set-top-box.

To quickly fix this, I logged into the Wowza instance after creating it using the Cloudformation template. I then deleted the the livecf application and created another application with the same name using the streams I needed (HLS, RTMP). I made sure my encoder was transmitting to Wowza then used the ‘Test Player’ button to get the rtmp link for my set-top-box. This worked great! Now my set-top-box was reading the feed directly from Wowza and bypassing Cloudfront. The live delay was reduced to less than 4 seconds. I still had the delay in Cloudfront which didn’t matter for my needs.