Has Anyone Been Successful in Streaming From Gstreamer to a Wowza Server in Windows?

[Nicolas Bouillot]

payloading is done during transmission. The audio video encoding can be
done during transmission, as in my previous example, or encoded before.
This second option saves CPU since encoding is done only one time, not
each time a client access the stream.

To do that:
1) Encode the video file to be streamed:
gst-launch filesrc location=<your video file> ! decodebin2 ! x264enc \
bitrate=500 ! ffmux_ipod ! filesink location=encoded_video_file.mp4

2) Encode the audio file:
gst-launch filesrc location=<your audio file> ! decodebin2 ! faac ! \
ffmux_ipod ! filesink location=encoded_audio_file.mp4
 
3) lunch the RTSP server as follow:
./test-launch "( filesrc location=encoded_video_file.mp4 ! qtdemux ! \
h264parse ! rtph264pay name=pay0   \
filesrc location=encoded_audio_file.mp4 ! qtdemux ! aacparse ! \
rtpmp4gpay name=pay1 )"

Also to be more specific, "repacked" means that wowza is not re-encoding
audio and video, but just converting network packet header the
appropriate format during transmission, depending on which protocol the
client access the wowza server (Flash streaming or others).

Nicolas 

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:57 -0500, William Metcalf wrote:
> Nicolas,
> 
> Thank you for your response.  I just have a few questions.  I have not 
> used the gst rtsp server before..  From a little bit of research it 
> seems like I can just create the rtsp server in a gstreamer 
> application.  So I will need to encode my audio and video into aac/h264, 
> then payload them with the respective rtp payloaders, and then I can use 
> the rtsp server to send the payloaded data to the wowza server where it 
> will be repackaged.  Does that sound correct to you?
> 
> Thank you,
> William
> 
> On 7/20/2011 2:40 PM, Nicolas Bouillot wrote:
> > On Linux yes, maybe the following can help for windows. But you need
> > anyway to have your data encoded to h264/aac.
> >
> > With the rtsp server, you can try the following (it worked for me with
> > gst-rtsp-0.10.5):
> > ./test-launch "( audiotestsrc ! audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, \
> > signed=(boolean)true, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)48000, \
> > channels=(int)2 ! queue ! faac ! rtpmp4gpay name=pay0 videotestsrc ! \
> > video/x-raw-yuv, format=(fourcc)I420, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, \
> > framerate=(fraction)15/1 ! queue ! x264enc bitrate=500 ! rtph264pay \
> > name=pay1 )"
> >
> > Then wowza can forward (by repacking) this RTSP stream:
> > http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?4403-Re-streaming-an-RTSP-stream-through-Wowza-Pro-%28RTSP-RTP%29
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:04 -0500, William Metcalf wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I have been reading through various forums on the Internet, and it seems
> >> that many people are having problems using GStreamer to stream a feed to
> >> a Wowza server.  Some posts seem to show that people have been able to
> >> stream a feed and are having problems with syncing issues, but most
> >> posts seem to show that people are having a very tough time trying to
> >> get a feed to stream correctly.  I am just wondering if anybody on the
> >> forum has actually been able to successfully stream video and/or audio
> >> from a gstreamer application to a wowza server, and if so, what elements
> >> you used to accomplish this task.  Also, if you have not been able to
> >> connect gstreamer to wowza successfully, has anybody been able to
> >> connect gstreamer to any other streaming media service such as WMS or Helix?
> >>
> >> Thank you all for your help,
> >> William
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