Wowza Stream not Live, why?

Question

i am sending live rtmp stream to wowza server with a live application config but everytime i connect to the stream for watching the live stream, its start from the beginning of the stream. I can see wowza is creating bigger and bigger file in /content directory and this file will everytime be played from the beginning.

How can i say wowza to send it live, like send the last 10 seconds of the file?

Best regards,

Chris

-1 for providing zero details – Alexander Farber Apr 08 '14 at 08:36 — Alexander Farber, Apr 08 '14 at 08:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 13:29

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You'll probably have more luck asking this question on the Wowza forums, where their support team regularly addresses these questions. You'll need to provide more information:

What is your input (camera, flash media encoder, file)?
Can you stream VOD?
A large file building in the content directory sounds like you may be recording the stream. Do you have any add-ons such as the live stream recorder installed?
What url are you using to connect?

answered Apr 19 '12 at 13:29

grant

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I have asked the ppls in the wowza forum. I just put my application.xml in the wrong directory, it should be {wowza dir}/conf/live/application.xml not {wowza dir}/applications/live/application.xml ... now its running fine. thx – Chris Apr 23 '12 at 09:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '12 at 13:53

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Well that answer is simple. You set the wrong stream type in the config.

I guess you set rtp-live-record instead of rtp-live that should fix it.

Kind Regards, Sui

answered Apr 22 '12 at 13:53

Suicide

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '12 at 07:52

Follow these instructions to create a live stream and broadcasting it

Go to the Wowza Media Server Directory. Probably it is /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer

cd applications;mkdir live

Here live is your application name

cd ../conf;mkdir live;cp Application.xml live/

Now edit the Application.xml file

cd live;vim Application.xml

Change the stream type default to live

live

set HTTPStreamers

cupertinostreaming,smoothstreaming,sanjosestreaming

set LiveStreamPacketizers to

cupertinostreamingpacketizer, smoothstreamingpacketizer, sanjosestreamingpacketizer

set Playmethod

none

Now go to your browser and open the player

file:///usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/examples/LiveVideoStreaming/client/live.html

Server : rtmp://;1935/live Stream :

Note * : For live streaming you have to use an encoder ( Adobe Flash media Live Encoder , etc )

Wowza Stream not Live, why?

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