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Setup live streams

Live streaming was never this easy. Setup your own live streams for all popular technologies within a few minutes. 

Go to the Manage Live Streams menu and click on Add a live stream to open the live stream setup wizard. The wizard lets you setup Windows Media encoders, Flash Media Encoders, RTP H.264, QuickTime and 3GPP encoders and Icecast encoders. The most common encoders are described here.

New: Icecast support (not shown here) is added to the live streaming wizard so you can setup MP3, AAC and OGG audio streams.

Choose the live streaming format, click next.

Live 3GPP, H.264, QuickTime streams

To setup live RTSP 3GPP mobile, H.264, AAC, MPEG-4 or QuickTime streams, select QuickTime in the Live Streaming Wizard.

The wizard shows the audio and video port and the core and fallback server IP addresses.

In the network settings of your favorite RTSP encoder, select Manual Unicast. Enter the port numbers and core server IP addres. 

Export the SDP file from your RTSP encoder and upload the SDP file via the Live Streaming Wizard. Save the stream by finalizing the wizard.

Click broadcast in your encoder. Congratulations, you have now setup your RTSP live stream. See the Publish section to generate embed codes, preview and publish your live stream.

Tip: every time you change the encoding or server settings, you have to export a new SDP file and upload it to VDO-X. Go to Manage Live Streams, click on broadcast to re-use the broadcast settings and upload a new SDP file.

Tip: when behind a NAT router (broadband modem, office router, wifi), transmit your upstream via TCP instead of UDP. 

Tip: we recommend these RTSP encoders: QuickTime Broadcaster and Wirecast.

Flash live streams from RTMP encoders

To setup a live Flash stream from a RTMP encoder, select Flash / Wowza in the Live Streaming Wizard. and select RTMP.

The wizard shows the core and fallback server URLs plus the stream name. Fill in the publishing point name and click next in the wizard:

Copy the core and fallback URL's and paste them into your favorite RTMP encoder.

Copy the entire stream name and paste this into your favorite RTMP encoder.

Save the stream in VDO-X by finishing the wizard.

Click broadcast in the RTMP encoder:

Congratulations, you have now setup your RTMP FLash live stream. See the Publish section to generate embed codes, preview and publish your live stream.

Tip: in Manage Live Streams, click on broadcast to view the encoder setting details in case you have to re-enter these into your live encoder.

Flash live streams from RTSP encoders

To setup a live Flash stream from a RTSP encoder, select Flash / Wowza in the Live Streaming Wizard and select RTSP.

The wizard shows the core and fallback server URLs plus the stream name. Fill in the publishing point name and click next in the wizard:

In your favorite RTSP encoder, select Automatic Unicast (Announce)

Copy the entire core URL and paste it into the RTSP encoder host name field.

Copy the entire stream name and paste this into the RTSP encoder file name field. 

Enter the provided username and password. When you are behind a NAT router, make sure you enable streaming over TCP.

Save the stream in VDO-X by finishing the wizard.

Click broadcast in the RTSP encoder:

Congratulations, you have now setup your RTSP FLash live stream. See the Publish section to generate embed codes, preview and publish your live stream.

Tip: in Manage Live Streams, click on broadcast to view the encoder setting details in case you have to re-enter these into your live encoder.

Windows Media live PULL streams

To setup a live Windows Media or Silverlight stream, select Windows Media in the Live Streaming Wizard.

To PULL a stream from a Windows Media encoder or server, select pull and enter the entire source HTTP address including the port number. Enter a publishing point name. The wizard shows which IP addresses from our CDN you have to allow in your firewall.

Save the stream by finishing the wizard.

Tip: make sure that you setup port forwards when your encoder is behind a NAT router.

Windows Media live PUSH streams

To setup a live Windows Media or Silverlight stream, select Windows Media in the Live Streaming Wizard.

To PUSH a stream from a Windows Media encoder to our CDN, select push and enter a publishing point name. Click next in the wizard.

In the Windows Media Encoder wizard, select Push and enter the core server URL and the publishing point name provided by VDO-X. Save the stream by finalizing the wizards in Windows Media Encoder and VDO-X.

Click on broadcast in Windows Media encoder. Enter the username and password provided by the VDO-X wizard to authenticate your stream.

Congratulations, you have now setup your Windows Media live stream. See the Publish section to generate embed codes, preview and publish your live stream.

Tip: in Manage Live Streams, click on broadcast to view the encoder setting details in case you have to re-enter these into your live encoder.

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