Stream Sources

Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) – RTSP, RTMP, MPEG-TS
Flash Media Server (FMS) – RTSP, RTMP, MPEG-TS
Discover Video Multimedia Encoder (DVME) – RTSP, RTMP, MPEG-TS
VLC – RTSP, RTMP, Mpeg-TS
Wowza – RTSP, RTMP, Mpeg-TS
FFMpeg – MPEG-TS, RTSP
BRIA SIP Server – RTSP
IPCamera – RTSP
Wirecast – RTMP

Stream Players

RTMP (Flash) – Adobe Flash Player, JW Player, ffPlay, Flowplayer
RTSP – Android phones (v2.3.5 or later),VLC, QuickTime, ffPlay
MPEG-TS – VLC, ffPlay
HLS – All iOS devices, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, JW Player
HDS – OSMF
MSS – SilverLight
DASH – GPAC, Digital Primates, castLabs DASHas

Akamai

Akamai requires very specific settings when pushing a stream to your account. The pushStream command for pushing to Akamai must look like the following:

pushStream uri=rtmp://AkamaiUserName:AkamaiPass@YOUR.akamaientrypoint.net/EntryPoint localStreamname=YourLocalStream targetStreamName=XX_YY_ZZ@WW emulateUserAgent=FMLE/3.0\ (compatible;\ FMSc/1.0)

AkamaiuserName, AkamaiPass, YOUR.akamaientrypoint.net all must be the values assigned to you by Akamai.

For the targetStreamName, xx, yy, zz are arbitrary strings, but Akamai requires there to be exactly two “_” in the stream name. @ww is a unique number used in combination with username/password to allow/disallow the publish operation. It is mandatory and is provided to you by Akamai.

The EMS can also push to the new RTMP HD publishing points in Akamai. You need to set the parameter sendChunkSizeRequest to 0 for Akamai to accept the connection. The pushStream command for this looks like the following:

pushStream uri=rtmp://AkamaiUserName:AkamaiPass@YOUR.akamaientrypoint.net/EntryPoint localStreamname=YourLocalStream targetStreamName=XX_YY_ZZ@WW emulateUserAgent=FMLE/3.0\ (compatible;\ FMSc/1.0) sendChunkSizeRequest=0

Other CDNs

The EMS allows you to publish your streams to a wide variety of CDNs. These include:

  • YouTubeLive
  • Limelight
  • Twitch.tv
  • EdgeCast
  • And many more!

Often times pushing streams to these CDNs is very simple and only requires you to add your username and password to the RTMP pushStream command (See RTMP section above). For many of these CDNs, you will need to specify emulateUserAgent in your pushStream command. An example pushStream command is as follows:

pushStream uri=rtmp://UserName:Pass@EntryPoint localStreamname=YourLocalStream targetStreamName=UsuallySpecifiedInYourAccount emulateUserAgent=FMLE

Miscellaneous Examples

To play an mpegts stream in VLC, use:

udp://@239.1.1.1:1234

To create a stream out of a file with ffmpeg, use:

$ ffmpeg -re -i myMovie.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mpegts -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb "udp://192.168.1.16:5555/"

To play HLS, send telnet command to EMS:

  1. Create HLS:

     createhlsstream localstreamnames=teststream targetfolder=/var/evo-webroot groupname=testgroup playlisttype=rolling
  2. Verify: Check if .ts files are generated inside targetfolder.
  3. Play: In the browser, type the complete URI of the “targetfolder/groupname” where playlist.m3u8 is located.

PLEASE SEE THE “HOW TO” DOCUMENT FOR MORE EXCELLENT EXAMPLES!