Wowza Streaming Engine With Wasabi

Wowza Streaming Engine can be used to stream your video files on Wasabi Storage. Below are the configuration steps to use it:

1) Download and install Wowza Streaming Engine. Wowza Streaming Engine has a browser based manager which easily allows you to connect Wowza to Wasabi Storage

2) Open the Streaming Engine Manager by typing "http://localhost:8088" into the browser and login with the credentials created during installation

3) Navigate to Server, then Media Cache, then Sources. Click on Add Media Cache Source. Select/Fill the following details and click Add.

Source Type, then AmazonS3

Base Path , then http://s3.wasabisys.com/

AWS Access Key ID, then  Wasabi Access Key

AWS Secret Access Key, then Wasabi Secret Key

4) Navigate to Application, then Add Application, then VOD Edge. Provide a name for application and select the Media Cache source created earlier and click Save.

5) All Set. You can test the configuration by navigating to Home, then Test Players. You can see various players that are supported in a specific browser, and each player has a different code to play the video.

Complete the follwoing to link format to stream a file in various players.

MPEG DASH -> http://:1935//_definst_////manifest.mp4

Apple HLS ->  http://:1935//_definst_////playlist.m3u8

Adobe RTMP -> Server = http://:1935/

                      Stream = /

Adobe HDS ->  http://:1935//_definst_////manifest.f4m

Note that this example uses Wasabi’s us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article.