Setting up a local Wowza development environment

wowza-local-dev-env.md

1. Run local wowza instance (under trial license) via

docker run -d --name wowza --restart always \
  --publish 1935:1935 --publish 8086:8086 --publish 8087:8087 --publish 8088:8088 \
  --entrypoint /sbin/entrypoint.sh \
  wowzamedia/wowza-streaming-engine-linux:4.8.5

2. Visit admin panel located at http://127.0.0.1:8088 (Username: wowza, password: wowza)

3. Install ffmpeg via homebrew

brew install ffmpeg

4. Setup a dummy video source and send to wowza streaming server

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 -b:v 600k -r 25 -s 640x360 -f flv "rtmp://127.0.0.1/live flashver=FMLE/3.0 live=true pubUser=wowza pubPasswd=wowza playpath=stream3"

5. View the stream at http://127.0.0.1:1935/live/stream3/playlist.m3u8 Either direct via Safari, or via http://players.akamai.com/hls/ for other browser

Remark

1. A Wowza developer license can be obtained at https://www.wowza.com/media-server/developers/license (optional, but recommended for more complete feature like transcoding; however Live HTTP Origin requires a paid license)
2. You need to enter the license obtained in admin panel.

Reference

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-wowza-streaming-engine-using-docker