Encoding video with encoding.com

Encoding can be a hard job. Why not outsource it? Encoding.com takes your video, encodes it and sends it back to you. For small consumers and testing purposes there is a free package available. 

There are different methods to send your video. 

Desktop Application — An Adobe Air application available on both Windows and OSX platforms enables complete upload and management of your encoding projects directly from your desktop. 

Web Interface — The client interface has a section entitled Add Media. This tool will allow you to quickly and easily encode individual videos in to one or more formats through your browser (via upload from hard drive, FTP, SFTP, S3, CloudFiles).

Watch Folder — Also in the client interface, the Watch Folder allows you to specify an FTP/SFTP/S3/CloudFiles directory for encoding.com to "watch" at any frequency for new videos. After each watch interval all new videos added to this folder will be processed using the encoding setting you selected. You can have as many watch folders as you like, making it possible to encode a large video library with little or no setup or integration work. Please see our collection of articles about the Watch Folder for more details. 

XML API is the most flexible method. Custom file naming, multiple output formats and real time encoding status updates are important features available via our API. 

Uploading the file via web interface

Drag and drop uploading via the Desktop Application

After uploading your video you can start encoding.
Basic encoding settings are Audio Codec, Bitrate, Destination Locations, File Size, Framerate, Notifications, Output Type, Source Video Locations and Thumbnails.

Choose your encoding task

Task overview

When the task is finished encoding.com sends the file to the  Network of choice: S3, CloudFiles, FTP, or most commonly, directly to your Content Delivery ce (Akamai, EdgeCast, Highwinds, CloudFront, Level 3, Limelight, CDNetworks, NetDNA, etc.) or you can download it manually.

Possible Third Party integrations are:

Amazon S3 Cloud Storage, CMS Systems (Drupal, etc.), Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Flash Players, Rackspace Cloud Files and Video Platforms can be linked to encoding.com.

Link to encoding.com

Wowza and Red5 same server

Sometimes it is useful to have  Wowza and Red5 on the same server. As both use the same ports, you have to change them in one applicattion.

Wowza default ports:

The following ports are used by default by Wowza Media Server 3 for streaming. You will need to open up these ports on your firewall to enable streaming. 

• TCP 1935: RTMP (all variants), RTSP, Smooth and Cupertino Streaming
• UDP 6970-9999: RTP UDP Streaming
• TCP 8084-8085: JMX/JConsole Monitoring and Administration
• TCP 8086: HTTP Administration

Red5 default ports:

• RTMP: 1935
• RTMPT: 8088
• HTTP servlet engine port: 5080
• Debug proxy port: 1936

Here is how to do change ports in Red5:

The first file we need to modify is the server properties file located in the conf directory:
red5/conf/red5.properties

• Locate the http.port key and change it to 80 (or whatever you want)instead of 5080
• Locate the proxy.source_port an change it to 1937 (or whatever you need)
• Do not change the rtmpt.port entry, it should be 8088
• Save and close the file
• If you have any webapps do not forget to modify the ports in the red5/webapps/yourapp/config.xml
• restart Red5

Howto Install Wowza Media Server on Centos 6.2

Setup Java:
It is suggested to deploy Wowza Media Server 3 under the most recent 64-bit version of either the Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE) available on your platform running under a 64-bit OS.  On the Windows platform the Java Runtime Environment does not include the server runtime environment (which is explained in the tuning instructions).  This environment is included with the Java Development Kit.  For this reason when running on Windows, installing the JDK is suggested.

Sign up for a license:

For development use  the free Wowza Media Server 3 Developer Edition license for access to the server and all premium AddOns is free. You can have up to 10 Connections with this license. 

If you need more you have to buy a license.

Wowza Server Install:
wget http://www.wowza.com/uploads/installers/WowzaMediaServer-3.0.3.rpm.bin
sudo chmod +x WowzaMediaServer-3.0.3.rpm.bin
sudo ./WowzaMediaServer-3.0.3.rpm.bin

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Install Location:
  /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer
To enter license key:
  cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/bin
  ./startup.sh

To uninstall:
sudo rpm –e WowzaMediaServer-3.0.3

Install the Wowza Examples: 
cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/examples
./installall.sh