Setting up live stream for Wowza via WMSPanel

Many people who enter the business of media streaming start their way with live streaming. They look for easy way to begin streaming and make something that will be the basis for their future streaming platform. This is where Wowza Media Server helps. It has rich feature set and detailed documentation for beginners.

WMSPanel has Wowza server management feature set which allows simplifying the set up of the application by using wizard-like interface and re-using global application templates.

Let's see how live streaming may be set up using these features.

1. Enable Server management for Wowza by going to Control / Server management menu. You'll need to load server configuration first, but that's a single time operation.

2. Click on Create an application and choose Live streamer template from templates list.

Choosing live streaming template.

3. After the application is created, click on its name to make user and password settings. Here's a brief screen shots instruction.

4. Go to server's management page and click on application name.

Applications list.

5. Click on Config application button to go to app configuration page.

New application details and a button to configure it.

6. Click on Set password button to see dialog for setting user and password.

7. Enter user and password with the format that appear in the dialog. Select servers and click on Apply to apply user/password settings to selected servers.

Setting password for Wowza application or instance.

8. Set up your encoder with rtmp://your_server_ip:1935/live or rtsp://your_server_ip:1935/live .

That's it

You can start publishing your live streaming. Beginner users may find a lot of features that might help them to start up faster.

You may also consider WMSPanel server tasks remote management via web console for convenient control of server-side commands. Launch any command, like ffmpeg process, with no need to log in via SSH, just an easy-to-use web interface.

Feel free to contact us if you have any Wowza set up questions

Related documentation

Server management for Wowza, Application templates, MediaCaster and LiveStreamRecord streams control, Wowza application authentication, User permissions management, Paywall for Wowza

Wowza application templates

If you intensively work with Wowza applications, you probably have typical settings which you apply to each new app. Of course there are variations but most parts of configs are taken from some previous settings.

Using WMSPanel Wowza server management feature set you can create applications of any kind with any config. So having some frequently used configs you needed to re-use old apps or keep your configs somewhere else.

Now we've added ability to save your template application configs and just re-use it any time you want. A template is a named XML configuration which is stored within WMSPanel.

First, you need to define templates to use. Go to Control / Application templates menu.

Wowza application templates list.

Here you see the list of app templates. Each template may be cloned or removed. Clicking on Add template or on existing template name you will go to edit dialog with name, description and a convenient XML editor with proper coloring.

Creating Wowza application template.

Having templates defined, you can go to Control / Server management and go managing a required server. Then you click on Create application, you can select which template you can use for it. We've also made a few pre-defined templates so you could start creating your applications easily. You can check GoCoder support description to see example of GoCoder app template.

Create Wowza application from template.

Any existing application may be used for creating a template. Being in application configuration page, click on Save configuration as template button to make it.

Saving configuration as template.

You can create any number of templates and use them within your account along with pre-defined templates created by WMSPanel team. If you think you template should be good for everyone to re-use, please contact us so we could evaluate it and create as a global one.

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Related documentation

Live streaming application template, Server management for Wowza, MediaCaster and LiveStreamRecord streams control, Wowza Transcoder add-on support, Monitoring server CPU and RAM, Wowza GoCoder app template, Paywall for Wowza, Geo and IP range restriction for Wowza, Wowza hotlinking re-publishing and re-streaming protection