Hi Bryan,
We use Wowza for streaming Islandora objects (MP4 videos over RTMP mostly,
and played in VideoJS), and it's a very smooth system. For public videos
that anyone can see, it works great. For restricted videos, there's
built-in IP restriction in Wowza, which works well out of the box. But we
weren't able to set it up with our proxy server so that off-campus users
can authenticate (because RTMP doesn't go over HTTP, it doesn't get sent
through the proxy). So for our reserves videos, we've installed Wrench,
which is a plugin for Wowza, which works with videoJS (so as to not also
have to use JW Player), that enables token-based authentication. Much as we
prefer to support Open Source software, we did buy a license for Wrench.
Our streaming module, in case you're interested (all Wrench-enabling code
was written by Paul Pound):
https://github.com/roblib/islandora_solution_pack_streaming_media
Example in use: https://bowingdownhome.ca/islandora/object/bdh%3A2628
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Brown, Bryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Florida State University Libraries is looking at different streaming media
> servers we could use for various use cases (mainly as a backend that gets
> called to serve up streaming videos by another application/site), and we've
> settled on Wowza (https://www.wowza.com/) as a potential solution. Before
> we move any further along down this road, I was wondering if anyone on the
> list has used it before and could speak from personal experience about it?
>
> Bryan Brown
> Web Developer
> FSU Libraries
>
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