Tips for streaming with a Wowza server
Hello everyone! We just got our app working and streaming live video, and I wanted to pass on what we learned in one post so that other people won't have to hunt through as much stuff. Hopefully thi...
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Earlier versions of Wowza software set streams to a bandwidth of 64k in the variant .m3u8 playlist by default.
Since the Roku ignores streams lower than 250k by default, the Roku doesn't recognize these Wowza streams. Setting the minBandwidth parameter to a value lower than 64k is one workaround that resolves these incompatible defaults.
I'm not sure what is implied by Wowza "chunks", but maybe you meant lower bandwidth streams...
--Kevin
Since the Roku ignores streams lower than 250k by default, the Roku doesn't recognize these Wowza streams. Setting the minBandwidth parameter to a value lower than 64k is one workaround that resolves these incompatible defaults.
I'm not sure what is implied by Wowza "chunks", but maybe you meant lower bandwidth streams...
--Kevin
