Below is the complex guide how to fix this lack. But this module doesn’t provide all opportunities to build a dynamic schedule channel. Generally schedule streaming for Wowza is a job for StreamPublisher Module from modules collection. SMIL syntax is pretty easy to understand, because it looks like HTML and XML.
Under parameters i mean duration of play, bitrate, resolution and so on. For each content instance you can describe a multimedia type and special parameters. SMIL is a markup language basically used for multimedia presentations. Encrypting abbreviation, SMIL means a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Schedule streams configuration are described in SMIL-files by structure one channel-one file. Shortly, sometimes we need to create a special schedule stream to transmit any special data at any special time.
It’s free only for test and trial versions (it’s not the same things for Wowza). The most disgusting fact – WowzaStreamingEngine is a proprietary software. It’s also informative to look at this product from the view of Java apps structure.
It means that Wowza is cross-platform software for Win, Mac, and, of course, Linux. It used as for cross-platform Web-streaming as sure as for IPTV with set-top boxes (STB). Wowza solutions of streaming issues are pretty flexible. They have a huge documentation, you’re welcome to fill your interest. It could be a live video, VOD (video on demand), audio, so on and so forth. The main destination of Wowza – streaming of multitudinous media formats. But here will be just a short explanation for your understanding what the hell is going on here.
I’d like to explain it step by step through my articles. What’s the point of WowzaStreamingEngine? It’s the same product, Wowza was called that way until 4.0 version. Mostly I worked with WowzaStreamingEngine – unified streaming server software. Up to the end of this summer there will be only streaming server guides. To summarize this term of my life, I’m starting to publish posts about media streaming.
That goal – servers customization for live stream videos transcoding and broadcast.ĭay by day I documented my goals and solutions in articles format. But the main goal was special and quite different. I still was a Linux servers maintainer who tries to explore this awesome OS world as much as possible. I worked last 5 months of this year at the media streaming field.