TV Station setup on our RTMP Server for Streaming

After you order a TV Station you will receive an email with the link to the rtmp server for tv streaming and login information, login to the control panel click on the overview icon  and enter your service overview:

Click on the image to see the full picture.

There are a number of links on the right menu, configure, restart, stop, reporting, TV Station, File manager, and player links.

I suggest you don’t make any changes to the configuration, the important buttons are “File Manager” where you upload your video files, and “TV Station” where you create a playlist and schedule when to start its date and time and when to stop it. You should create 2 or 3 playlists.

Reporting will give you information on the videos seen, traffic, connections, and so on. On the top menu, there are some links that provide information on how many viewers you have online which countries and the bandwidth used.

Click on File Manager to upload or drag your videos to the server. Videos must be in flv or mp4 format. You can use FTP software to upload the videos, but the but click on the video and dragging it to the server is probably easier.

Now go back to Service Overview and click “TV Station”

on the TV station page, you create a playlist and schedule the date and time to start and the date and time to stop. Add the videos and save the playlist, after that you need to restart the service so changes take effect.

When adding the videos you will see on the left the videos uploaded “Available Media” and you need to move the ones you want to the right “Build Your Playlist” some videos may have an exclamation mark, which means the bitrate on the video is higher than the allowed on your package, you better delete this videos from the server and convert them again with the correct bitrate.

after you move the videos you want to your playlist, save it then restart the server, now at the scheduled time your videos will start streaming, we suggest that you create at least 3 or 4 playlists.

Go back to the service and click Media Player so you can grab the jwplayer code to paste it on your site.

But the TV Station is not only schedule playlists, but you can also interrupt and make a live broadcast, on the service overview at the bottom there is the RTMP for the FMLE or Wirecast, whatever encoder you use, the stream name, username, and the password. For instructions on how live streaming is done see this post.

For further instructions on how to use our wowza control panel check the links below:

1- Live streaming

2- TV Station

3- Ondemand Streaming

4- IP Camera Re-Streaming

RTMP Server in the era of HTTP video streaming

Given the growing popularity and support of HTTP video streaming, it may be tempting to consider Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) streaming obsolete. But in many cases, working with RTMP server is still very meaningful. As soon as Macromedia first pronounced RTMP with Flash Player 6 in 2002, the brand new Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX (FCS) required to stream the evolving Flash Video (FLV) format, stream was live or VOD.

However, for FCS, licensing costs were high (up to $5,000 per server), and as a result, CDN costs were high than other proprietary streaming formats. Some manufacturers in the industry have called RTMP streaming costs a “Flash tax”. But Flash Player has been a ubiquitous introduction to desktop browsers for well over a decade, much larger than other plug-ins. Though, streaming server technology has traditionally been harder for web developers to implement, and simpler HTTP delivery has mostly been easier and more cost-effective. In 2003, Macromedia enabled Flash Player 7 to support HTTP delivery of FLV files, allowing integrators to use standard web server technology to deploy online video.

So in many ways, RTMP as a VOD transport delivery has not been a requirement for web video for more than a decade. As a video solution architect, I think of business requirements as the leader in most audio video decisions. And still, in 2014, RTMP is the de facto standard for the following use cases:

Publishing live streams from software/hardware encoders: Almost all streaming devices support RTMP to publish to CDN providers and streaming servers. Some native mobile applications also use RTMP libraries to publish live video from their mobile camera.

Near-instant search/playback: One of the benefits of RTMP streaming is its enhanced search capability. With real-time streaming, the player can search anywhere in the video with less buffering than HTTP delivery. However, to enjoy this feature, you need a Flash Player on your desktop and as such, it is not possible in mobile browsers. HTML5 browsers use HTTP domain requests to facilitate faster searching of VOD files.

Content Protection: RTMP Server can facilitate different levels of content protection, from obfuscation to true DRM. RTMP streams are not stored for playback on a desktop browser.

Adaptive Streaming: One of the preferred uses of RTMP is adaptive streaming playback, where we provide the video player with more bitrates and content resolutions, providing the best resolution at the current network speed. Some HTTP adaptive streaming technologies, such as HLS and MPEG-DASH, allow similar delivery, but RTMP may be more responsive to switching one bitrate to another. Unfortunately, there is no standard for HTTP adaptive streaming between HTML5 video-enabled browsers. As such, the Flash-based display of adaptive streaming is still a requirement for adaptive streaming.

Live Streaming Playback: While live streams do not need to be adaptive, compressed video segments apply the same principle to all live streaming playback. For desktop playback within the browser, virtually every live streaming event requires a video player that supports Flash-based rendering and RTMP playback. Apple Safari on iOS natively supports HLS, and luckily, all modern streaming servers, including the Wowza Streaming Engine, support RTMP and HLS compression.

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The requirement for a Live Streaming Flash Player will only change if MPEG-DASH appears everywhere as Flash currently. If Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 support is required to install live streaming, then RTMP streaming is still required. Also, if you need a delay close to zero in a live stream, then HTTP streaming will almost certainly not meet your needs while RTMP is capable; HTTP mechanisms require that multiple packets be collected on the server before being sent to the video player.

In summary, if your video workflow involves live streaming or any kind of packaged video installation, RTMP is the key to a successful video experience. HTTP delivery has already replaced most Flash VOD installs on video, but HTTP video can’t handle all RTMP video use cases.

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What is the difference between HTTP and RTMP streaming? When should we use RTMP streaming?

The port, the door to the outside internet. The http uses port 80 or 443, nowadays https, most sites now have https instead of http . for example http://quora.com

try quora.com:443 it will work

now for the rtmp it uses port 1935

try quora.com:1935 it will not work.

quora is not a rtmp server. the rtmp is used for media servers like live videostreaming.

So if you could use rtmp to broadcast live it would be great because the delay broadcasting and receiving the video transmission on rtmp is good, just 1 or 2 seconds of delay. while if you just use a normal http server for live streaming the delay is much higher sometimes up to 25 seconds.

BUT, most firewalls or browsers will not allow the port 1935 to be open, or the plugin use which is called flash from adobe is not acceptable anymore. that means the viewer using a purely rtmp server will not be able to see the transmission.

But there are still uses for rtmp server, and it is like this, the broadcaster connects from his location to the server with a rtmp and then the rtmp server converts the stream to another protocol called HLS (https live streaming) so we back on port 80 or 443 and then the transmission can be viewed by nearly all devices. You can see a sketch at the site RTMP Server | RTMP to HLS And HTML5 Player and you can even order a free demo and test yourself broadcasting live.

Going back to the ports check http://rtmp-server.com:1935/ it works! they using wowza which is special server for live streaming. you can more on this at their site Wowza Live Streaming Software

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red5 news and red5 servers

Red5 is a media server created with Java language. It is a free open source software but recently a new version Red5 Pro came out developed by the same people, this new version supports streaming to mobiles, Android or iOS, which red5 does not. The Red5 Pro is commercial product and costs $55 per server.

A media server allows Flash based applications connect to it using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The server can send and receive data to and from the connected users who have a flash player installed. The server also allows users to receive and publish streams. This permits video chat applications, live streaming and even ondemand video streaming.

Most common Video chat software’s are:
1- Avchat
2- Videowhisper
3- Prochatrooms
4- Gchats

For live streaming the necessary tool if you already have a server with red5 installed is an encoder, an encoder is the software that will connect your computer to the red5 server using the RTMP, which your server provider will give you.
1- FMLE, it is an free Adobe product and does a good job.
2- Wirecast, it is an expensive commercial product of very high quality, absolutely necessary if you starting a TV station.

Although red5 is a free product many people prefer to use Wowza Streaming Engine or Adobe Flash Media Server which are commercial software’s and can be quite expensive, the FMS costs $4500 per server. The reason is that the developers of red5 although have created a wonderful system did not spend much time with tutorials and instructions on how to install and manage a red5 server, for this reason if you searching for a red5 server we suggest you pick a web host which specializes on red5 servers and red5 shared hosting.

1- Red5 Servers relatively cheap red5 servers starting at $15 a month.
2- Red5 Hosting, Hosting Marketers, a web host for experienced webmasters, it is the oldest hosting company specialized on Video and media servers, they also offer Wowza Streaming Engine on its shared plans. They have a very experienced customer support and a reputation for going out of their way to help customers. They starting plan with Red5 enabled costs $9.95 a month. Most other red5 hosting companies are resellers of Hosting Marketers.

Red5 is a formidable media server, extremely flexible and has the advantage of being a free product with with many people working on developing it, for now the main version does not yet work with mobiles, if that is what you need we suggest that instead of using the Red5 Pro version to use the Wowza instead.

Multi Bitrate streaming with red5

It is possible to stream a live event with red5 to different groups of people who have different internet connections with different speeds, for example for a person on dial up to stream to this person a high quality is useless because he will only see buffering, and little of the real video. Using multi bitrate it is possible to stream for dial ups, or high quality.

this is done on the fmle encoder, select more then 1 stream choose the bitrate you want to use and then on the stream name separate the stream names with a semicolon, for example:

low;medi;high

then create 3 different players, if on strobe on the video source use:

RTMP + Stream name

rtmp://server_IP/low

rtmp://server_IP/medi

rtmp://server_IP/high

 

this way you will have 3 players for 3 different group of viewers. More can be read at red5 hosting.

 

 

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Advanced Technologies In Wowza Hosting

Most of the businessmen are utilizing website as the right source to advertise their products in the global world very easily. Storing the videos of your products in the website is really revolving as the best technique to market any type of product. While hosting the video based websites, every website owner should be very clear in choosing the server where their website can be hosted. The wowza server is the highly advanced web server that makes things much easier when it comes to use several web based applications and at the same time wowza hosting a number of different video applications based on various technologies. Every website owner should try to collect information about the particular wowza server that they choose to implement wowza hosting to upload their websites and videos. It is really much important thing to stay updated on the various latest technologies and wowza hosting of such video based sites will revolve as the much easier one when compare to others. Website owner who are in need to make use of different applications that relate to videos can prefer the wowza hosting as the right technique.
There is no doubt that only the wowza hosting will allow the website owners to store numerous videos and other information very easily. Though there are shared wowza hosting is available, only the highly secured shared wowza hosting and dedicated wowza hosting will revolve as the best way to host video based websites. The video streaming will be in successful manner only if the videos are stored in the topmost wowza server . If you visit some topmost wowza hosting provider sites in online, you can get to know more about wowza hosting types and different wowza server s being used to live the website. The wowza hosting services will ensure you many top qualities in hosting the video websites and you can enjoy the best of wowza hosting services with wowza server to attain excellent video streaming services. Understanding the real importance of wowza hosting will make entire things much efficient for people who are willing to attain various video based websites. To host the video sites with good video streaming can be achieved only by choosing the topmost wowza hosting services. In this way, websites give people great support in knowing about various technologies as well as the use of applications and services based on the available technologies.
By finding out the right wowza server providers and wowza hosting service providers, there is chance for every website owner to host any kind of video sites very easily. You will find things much exciting when you find out the topmost wowza server providers in this internet world. It is a true fact that wowza hosting will become the much more advantageous one in the coming years and people are all eyes for those best features. By looking over the online review sites, you can find information about wowza server to improve your understanding very clearly.

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The other superb feature is the use of various codecs for the high quality audio and video streaming. There are lots of codecs that are used by this web host. The main encoders used for audio and video streaming are RTMP, RTP, RTPS and MPEG-TS. There are the best encoders present today. These provide extremely high quality audio and video playbacks.

• The other powerful feature of wowza hosting is on-demand audio and video streaming. This is one prominent feature of the Wowza Media Server. You can get the streaming videos and audios on-demand. There is also the function of live streaming with simulated playlist functionality. This makes the website more powerful than others.

• The other superb feature of the wowza hosting is on-line radio re-streaming. This is possible by the use of SHOUTcast encoders that are available on the website. You will get the best radio experience on the web.

• If you want to communicate with other people while simultaneously listening to your favorite track, wowza has functionality for that too. You can get interactive communications. There are textual, video and conference chats available over the web host. You can easily share your media files with the people around you. You can use this as a potent business tool. There are options such as screen sharing and white boarding too. You can use these methods for interaction with other people.

• There are other things on the website which are meant for complete entertainment. The online games are part of such sources. You can play various online games from the web host. This will provide you excellent source of entertainment.

• You can use the server for individual websites also. Many people are using the Wowza Media Server for their websites. You can use content delivery networks too. The broadcasting of many media content is possible.

These are many of the features offered by the Wowza Media Server. The best part of all these features is that they come all with decidedly less price than other websites. You just have to make an account with the web host. You pay for the required package that you want. The contents will be opened for you. The start of the packages is from as low as $25. You can easily get 10 GB space with this. If you want to try, there is a demo or trial account that can be used for this purpose.