Tests Prior to a Live Streaming Event

[mdman1970]

Hello there,
My first post - hope it OK putting some probably rather basic questions into 'Advanced' forum. As a backgroud we are a Video production company wanting to offer Live event streaming as a service - we have decided to concenrate on Flash only streaming. Just have a couple of questions really:

1) Say we where asked to do a live event stream from JoeBloggs Inc offices. Are there any tests (online) that can be run from JoeBloggs Inc office to confirm that we can send the Live RTMP flash stream to our Flash Server ie. we are not firewalled/proxied off? (NB I understand in an ideal world we would have a dedicated/resilient internet connection.

I did find this test : http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewCont...d=tn_16466

Is the above test only proving Flash Player connectivity - or does this also prove RTMP stream push connectivity to Flash servers?

What test would you run onsite to prove we have the ability to push a flash stream? I suppose trying to push a stream is the best test.

Secondly, and here where I show my ignorance probably: can some please explain the output from the test e.g.



RTMP DEFAULT Success <-----what is this, I thought 1935 was deafult port??
RTMP 80 Success <---- I assume we aint going via proxy withis connection, but directly out of nextwork on port 80 and flash server is listening on port 80?
RTMP 443 Success
RTMP 1935 Success <-- confused because of first line ie. default, i thought 1935 was default
HTTP Tunneling DEFAULT Success
HTTP Tunneling 80 Success


Re: the above HTTP tunneling. Is this mainly used for connections via a HTTP proxy on the LAN?

Sat I had flash encoder software on my laptop - can I configure the push stream with : RTMPT://myflashserver.com/livestream

If so how would flashencoder know which proxy server to use? does it take the proxy server address from internet connection settings?


2) We would like to provide Syncornized slides/QA functionality. We will be usi ng WOWZA for flash server . Are there any soutions out there to provide this functionaliity or would we have to get a flash developer invloved to provide a bespoke solution?


Also can anybody recommend a good webcast streaming book - preferably foucsing on flash.


Many thanks, sorry for so many question,

Rich

[DaveJaVu]

Hi Rich,

Hopefully the following will help....

1. Any sucess in the Adobe tests mean you should be able to stream over RTMP according to Adobe. The standard port for RTMP is 1935 - as long as this is open on the network you'll have no issues - personally I just ask the network manager on site to ensure that this is the case!

http://www.flashstreaming.co.uk/blog/pos...nswer.aspx

2. Different ballgame altogether. Do you mean having the ability to display 2 streams side by side (1 Video / 1 powerpoint) on a page or switching between sources? In either case to show powerpoint slides you'll need a scan converter to take vga signal from presenter's laptop and convert this to a video signal that can then be then fed to the encoder.

PM me and I am happy to help!

Regards,

Dave.

[cata12]

Hello you can try a test on BlinkoTV com or Mogulus to proove that you can do flash streaming from a speciffic location. But I would rather try the first option because you can get HD video quality.