Larix Screencaster for iOS - live streaming from any app

Softvelum provides a number of solutions for mobile streaming and playback.

Today we introduce Larix Screencaster for iOS.

Larix Screencaster application allows capturing the content of user device and streaming it to the target media server or service. The list of supported protocols includes RTMP/RTMPS, RTSP/RTSPS and SRT, you can stream AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265.

Install Larix Screencaster here.

The setup of streaming is similar to Larix Broadcaster, you can read documentation reference for connectivity details.

As for the screen recording part, Apple requires additional setup:

• How to record the screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch article
• How to record your screen on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch YouTube video
• Larix Screencaster for iOS: setup and launch - its a video on our YouTube channel showing in-app streaming

Watch this video to see an example of Screencaster setup with OBS studio

Please study these sources to perform the setup.

Let us know if you have any questions regarding Larix Screencaster or other mobile solutions.

Larix Screencaster setup and usage

Our team is continuously improving mobile streaming products set.

Using mobile device, you may want to show your screen content to the public in real-time.

This might be your game play process displayed at popular streaming services like Twitch or YouTube.
It can be your mobile device product live presentation on a conference or a webinar.
These scenarios require capabilities to capture your screen and stream it outside the device via some real-time protocol.

Larix Screencaster is a free app for Android. It's capable of streaming screen content in real time to any destination which supports RTSP and RTMP publishing of H.264/AAC stream over TCP. The Screencaster runs in background and can be controlled from notification area.

Besides streaming the content Larix Screencaster allows recording it to MP4.

The application was successfully tested with Nimble Streamer and Wowza Streaming Engine as well as YouTube live streaming. 

The setup is easy and straight-forward:

• Install the app from Google Play
• Go to Settings
• Select best resolution
• Specify the connection URL for your media stream destination
• Start streaming your screen.

The URL has the IP-address or domain name of your media server, Port and Path.
For RTMP it will be like:

rtmp://192.168.5.5:1937/live/stream

Take a look at Larix documentation reference to see how you can set up connection in Larix Broadcaster and Screencaster has similar conectivity.

Larix premium SDK

If you'd like to create similar Android app capable of media streaming, you can use our Larix streaming SDK. You will get Larix source code and a library for further UI customization.

Visit our documentation reference page for more Larix setup information.


Please contact us if you have any questions.

Related documentation

Larix mobile SDK, Installing Nimble Streamer, Transmux RTSP to HLS, RTMP, DASH and more via Nimble Streamer

Dispersa stream monitoring screencast

We've recently released a new screencast which shows how to make manual stream check over and set up streams monitoring.



Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new videos as soon as they are released.

Related documentation

Dispersa streams monitoring, How to set up streams availability monitoring, Adding private checkpoints for Dispersa, WMSPanel YouTube channel, Streams monitoring history

Nimble Streamer overview video

We've shot and released a new video! It's about Nimble Streamer.

Watch this:



This video is available on our Demo page, it's streamed by Nimble itself.

You can also read "The Paranoid’s Guide to Internet Video Streaming" by Thomas Gires to see real-life example of using pay-per-view feature set of Nimble Streamer and WMSPanel.

Screencast for data slices and white label

Hi,

Yes, we have another screen cast out. This on covers the following features of WMSPanel:

• Data slices for sharing data for further reporting;
• White label branded panel with customer domain and logo.

This video does not cover our latest streamed slices yet, please read blog post about how you can track individual streams statistics. You may also specify time zone for a slice.

Read more about WMSPanel streaming reporting.

Did you like the concept? Sign up today for free trial.

Check our YouTube channel for more videos.

Related documentation

Streamed slices for Wowza, End user reporting for Wowza, Daily statistics, High precision reporting, Geo location reporting, Devices and Players report for Wowza, Billing customers using daily stats, User permissions management, Screencast for daily statistics, SSL white label panel, Statistics import API

Daily stats review screen cast

Hi,

Having previous overview screen cast cover Wowza reporting basics of our control panel, we made first detailed description about a day-granulated statistics which include features like:

• Daily stats for connections, bandwidth, traffic and play time
• Duration metrics and chart
• Single day summary
• Geo-location report

See those reports in action:

Please also find the latest features not described in this video:

• Devices and Players report for Wowza.
• Internet service providers (ISP) report.
• Adjust time zone setting for data slices
• Disaster recovery for daily stats in case of networking issues.

Read more on WMSPanel streaming reporting summary page.

Check our YouTube channel for more videos.

Related documentation

End user reporting for Wowza, High precision reporting, Devices and Players report for Wowza, Data slices for statistics, Streamed slices for Wowza, Billing customers using daily stats, White label branded panel, Screencast for data slices and white label, SSL white label panel, Statistics import API, Disaster recovery for Wowza agent

New overview screencast

Greetings!

Time goes by and WMSPanel get more new features. That's why our first screen cast is very outdated and so we decided to make a new introductory video briefly describing our panel functionality.

Check our YouTube Channel to see other videos and subscribe to new upcoming screen casts.

Our first screen cast is out

Greetings!

We are really glad to introduce our first screen cast showing basic capabilities of our reporting and control panel.

One video is worth a thousand words, check it out:

Please welcome to join our WMSPanel YouTube channel for upcoming videos.

If you like what you see there - visit WMSPanel now and sign up to try it.

Related documentation

Screencast for daily statistics, Screencast for data slices and white label