This article describes how to play a video-on-demand (VOD) or live stream from Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software on RTSP/RTP-based players.
Play a VOD .mp4 file
This section describes how to play the default [install-dir]/content/sample.mp4 video file from an application named myApplication. If your video file has a different name or if you're streaming from an application that has a different name, substitute those values in the sample URLs.
For details about how to create a Wowza Streaming Engine application for VOD streaming, see Set up video-on-demand streaming in Wowza Streaming Engine.
Enter the following URL into the RTSP/RTP player:
rtsp://[address]:1935/myApplication/mp4:sample.mp4
To play your own content, copy it to the server [install-dir]/content folder and substitute its file name in place of sample.mp4 in the playback URL.
Note: In a Wowza Streaming Engine, MP4 is the default stream format and you're not required to use the mp4: stream name prefix to play the sample video file. For example: rtsp://[address]:1935/myApplication/sample.mp4
To play content that's not in the content root folder ([install-dir]/content), add the default application instance name to the playback URL. For example, if the sample.mp4 video file is in [install-dir]/myVideos/sample.mp4, the playback URL is:
rtsp://[address]:1935/myApplication/_definst_/myVideos/mp4:sample.mp4
Play a live stream
This section describes how to play a live stream named myStream from an application named myApplication. If your live stream has a different name or if you're streaming from an application that has a different name, substitute those values in the sample URLs.
For details about how to send a stream from your encoder to Wowza Streaming Engine, see Connect live sources.
Enter the following URL into the RTSP/RTP player:
rtsp://[address]:1935/myApplication/myStream
If your live stream has a different name, use it instead of myStream in the playback URL.
