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 Hot Cloud Storage.

2. Open the Streaming Engine Manager by typing the following into the browser: http://localhost:8088. Log in with the credentials created during installation.

3. Navigate to Server, then Media Cache, then Sources.

4. Click Add Media Cache Source.

5. Select/fill the following details and click Add.

   • Source Type—AmazonS3

   • Base Path—http://s3.wasabisys.com/

   • AWS Access Key ID—Wasabi Access Key

   • AWS Secret Access Key—Wasabi Secret Key

     

6. 4) Navigate to Application.

7. Click Add Application.

8. Select VOD Edge.

9. Provide a name for application. Select the Media Cache source created earlier.

10. Click Save.

    

11. 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.

12. Complete the following 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

      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 Service URLs for Wasabi's Storage Regions.