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      • Wowza Video REST API and SDKs
        • Wowza Streaming Engine REST API
          • Overview
            • Query the Wowza Streaming Engine REST API
            • Change the authentication method
            • Add HTTP headers to responses
          • Start building
            • Create and manage a live streaming application
          • Examples
            • Manage nDVR stores
            • Create and manage live sources
            • Get server logs
            • Manage Media Cache
            • Manage SMIL files
            • View stream statistics
            • Create and manage stream files
            • Create and manage stream recorders
            • Create and manage stream targets
            • Manage server users
            • Send a stream from Wowza Streaming Engine to a Wowza CDN HLS target
            • Stream to Facebook Live
            • Send a stream from Wowza Streaming Engine to Wowza Video Legacy for transcoding
            • Send a stream from Wowza Streaming Engine for transcoding in Wowza Video
            • Send adaptive bitrate streams to Akamai using a single stream target
            • Send Apple HLS content to Amazon S3 using Wowza REST APIs
          • Reference
            • Access reference documentation
            • Access reference documentation with Postman
            • Use reference documentation with Swagger Codegen
        • Wowza Streaming Engine Java API
          • Overview
            • About the Wowza Streaming Engine Java API
            • Extend Wowza Streaming Engine using the Wowza IDE
            • Use Wowza IDE with Transcoder
            • Use Java modules
            • Use HTTP providers
            • Use event listeners
          • Start building
            • Create an HTTP provider
          • Examples
            • Control access to Apple HLS streaming
            • Control access to MPEG-DASH streaming
            • Control access to HTTP streams
            • Control access to RTSP/RTP streams
            • Use nDVR recording
            • Control the display of program date and time headers in Apple HLS chunklists for live streams
            • Use Wowza nDVR playlist request
            • Wowza nDVR: Query recording duration
            • Extract MP4-formatted files from DVR streams
            • Select audio and subtitle tracks from a VOD file
            • Add a Media Cache source
            • Add graphic overlays to transcoded live streams
            • Decrypt PlayReady-encrypted VOD content
            • Control HTTP origin session creation
            • Convert timed metadata from AMF to ID3
            • Convert timed metadata from AMF to emsg
            • Do basic server-side publishing with the Stream class
            • Do scheduled adaptive bitrate streaming using the stream class
            • Do server-side redirect of RTMP connections from one application to another
            • Switch between RTP and MPEG-TS when streaming RTSP
            • Expose an attribute or method of a custom application module through JMX/JConsole
            • Get the video frame rate from a live stream
            • Insert keyframes into a transcoded stream
            • Load-balance NVIDIA accelerated transcoding across GPUs
            • Log play statistics on a timer
            • Control which streams get transcoded
            • Modify or fix SDP data sent from IP cameras
            • Monitor MPEG-TS ingestion to process additional data streams
            • Use generic Stream Target class to prepare Apple HLS streams for ad insertion
            • Override publish to remap a stream name
            • Redirect an HTTP or RTSP session through server-side code
            • Set up a JMX command line interface to Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Switch streams
            • Listen for stream events and codec information
            • Control aliasing of stream names
            • Publish server-side live streams
            • Resolve SMIL file requests
            • Resolve SMIL file requests with captions
            • Start RTP and MPEG-TS streams
            • Start and stop MediaCaster streams
            • Monitor and control connections made via MediaCaster
            • Create pseudo-live streams using files
            • Send Apple HLS streams to a generic destination
            • Control MPEG-DASH fragment IDs and timecodes
            • Specify the A/V synchronization method when re-streaming RTSP streams
            • Intercept and block incoming UDP packets for an RTP or MPEG-TS stream
            • Push a native RTP or MPEG-TS stream
            • Start and stop VHost using JMX
            • Access MPEG-TS SCTE-35 tags for HLS streaming
          • Module examples
            • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
              • Convert speech to text with Azure AI Speech ServicesNew
              • Convert speech to text with OpenAI WhisperNew
            • Insert ad markers for SSAI deliveryNew
            • Add an audio track to a video-only stream
            • Validate Akamai server connections with Akamai G2O authorization
            • Send connection and stream statistics to Google Analytics
            • Mix audio and video from different live sources
            • Blacklist a stream in session
            • Filter audio-only rendition in Apple HLS auto-generated multi-bitrate playlist
            • Duplicate streams to another application instance
            • Control which streams get recorded by the nDVR recorder
            • Control Stream class streams dynamically
            • Monitor bandwidth of published streams
            • Limit the number of viewers of a stream
            •  Start recording streams automatically
            • Load and lock an appinstance
            • Loop a pre-roll until a live stream starts
            • Access content locally before trying a remote source
            • Store SMIL files and VOD assets in different locations
            • Select multiple tracks from a VOD file
            • Control which streams get packetized for HTTP streaming
            • Control access to your application by checking referer domain
            •  Upload recorded media to an Amazon S3 bucket
            • Schedule streaming
            • Resolve edge server stream requests to origin servers
            • Disconnect clients after a specified time period
            • Control which streams get transcoded
            • Take timed thumbnail snapshots of a transcoded stream
            • Move live stream recordings
            • Publish securely from an RTMP encoder that does not support authentication
            • Integrate user authentication with external systems
            • Enable geographic locking
            • Get HTTP and RTP performance statistics
          • HTTP provider examples
            • Get connection counts for server, applications, application instances, and streams
            • Generate thumbnail images of live streams
            • Get detailed server info
            • Make an HTML page with graphics and scripts
            • Create a WebSocket server
            • Generate a SMIL file
            • Set a default custom HTTP response code
            • Inject timed metadata using a Wowza Streaming Engine HTTP provider
          • Reference
            • Java API reference documentation
        • Wowza Flowplayer developer documentation
        • Wowza Streaming Engine
          • Wowza Streaming Engine with Wowza Video
          • Get started
            • Understanding Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Wowza Streaming Engine Free Trial
            •  Install and configure Wowza Streaming Engine
            •  Get started as a Wowza Streaming Engine Manager administrator
            • Find your way around Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
            • Wowza Streaming Engine technical specifications
          • Software updates
            • Latest software updates
            • Known issues with Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Wowza Streaming Engine 4.9.4 Release Notes
            • Wowza Streaming Engine release history
            • Deprecated features in Wowza Streaming Engine
            •  Update Wowza Streaming Engine
          • Connect live sources
            • Connect a live source
            •  Set up live streaming using an RTMP-based encoder
            • Set up live streaming using an RTSP/RTP-based encoder
            • Set up live streaming using a native RTP encoder
            •  Set up WebRTC streaming with Wowza Streaming Engine
            •  Ingest and publish an SRT stream with Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Publish and play a live stream with an MPEG-TS encoder
            • Publish and play an Apple HLS live stream
            • Live stream using FFmpeg with Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Use SHOUTcast/Icecast as a live stream encoder
            • Use Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera controls
          • Re-stream
            • About re-streaming with MediaCaster
            • Create and use .stream files
            •  Re-stream video from an IP camera (RTSP/RTP re-streaming)
            • Re-stream using FFmpeg
            • Re-stream audio from SHOUTcast/Icecast
            • Re-stream an unprotected stream from Adobe Media Server or a CDN
            • Start streams at server startup
            • Reset a MediaCaster stream with JConsole
          • Configure and manage live streams
            • Enable username/password authentication for RTMP and RTSP publishing
            • Manage timecodes
            • Set up low latency applications for RTMP streaming
            • Specify per-stream settings in .stream files
            • Monitor a live application for .sdp and .stream files
            • Listen for a multicast stream on a particular network interface
            • Debug encoder multi-bitrate keyframe alignment
            • Import AC-3 elementary streams
            • Enable the MP4A-LATM media type for AAC audio
            • Configure the location of streaming files
          • Streaming protocols and formats
            • Understanding protocols and formats
            • About HTTP streaming and packetization
            • Enable CORS for HTTP-based connections
            • Apple HLS
              • Configure Apple HLS packetization
              • Improve playback of lower-latency Apple HLS streams
              • Create Apple App Store compliant streams (audio only rendition)
              • Secure HLS streaming using DRM encryption
              • Change the EXT-X-VERSION for HLS streaming
              • Add custom playlist headers to Apple HLS manifests
              • Use alternative audio or video tracks with Apple HLS streams
              • Troubleshoot Apple HLS playback
              • Debug AAC or MP3 timecode issues with Apple HLS packetization
              • Turn off the Alternate Track button in Apple iOS devices
              • Create keyframe (I-frame) only playlists for Apple HLS streams
              • Packetize Apple HLS audio using TS chunks
              • Secure Apple HLS with AES-128 external encryption
              • Test AES encryption for Apple HLS streams
              • Control streaming session ID appended to encryption URLs in chunklist responses
              • Find Apple iOS device supported profile and level information
              • Turn off data event processing for HLS streams
              • Switch between absolute and relative URLs in HLS playlists
              • Insert a pre-roll or VOD playlist for iOS
              • Play HLS streams on Apple iOS devices
              • Enable the AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH attribute in HLS playlists
              •  Enable player-side ad insertion
              • Disable Gzip encoding for HLS streams
            • MPEG-DASH
              • Stream over MPEG-DASH
              • Configure MPEG-DASH packetization
              • Use alternative audio or video tracks with MPEG-DASH streams
              • Secure MPEG-DASH streaming using Common Encryption (CENC)
              • Secure WebM MPEG-DASH streams using Common Encryption
              • Debug MPEG-DASH streaming
            • CMAF
              • About CMAF workflows
              • Stream using CMAF
              • Configure CMAF live streaming packetization
              • Debug CMAF streaming
              • Create adaptive bitrate CMAF streams
              • Deliver HLS live streams using CMAF and HEVC/H.265
              • Deliver LL-HLS live streams
              • Deliver LL-HLS streams using Amazon EC2 and CloudFront
              • Manage CMAF playback
              • Stream using a CMAF live stream repeater
              • View CMAF HLS stream playlists
              • Control CMAF HLS media playlist attributes
              • Secure CMAF MPEG-DASH streams using Common Encryption (CENC)
              • Secure CMAF HLS streams using Common Encryption (CBCS) in Wowza Streaming Engine
            • WebRTC
              • About WebRTC workflows
              •  Set up WebRTC streaming with Wowza Streaming Engine
              • Ingest RTSP, SRT, or RTMP streams for playback with WebRTC
              •  Use WebRTC example pages with Wowza Streaming Engine
              • Record WebRTC streams with Wowza Streaming Engine
              • Control access to WebRTC publishing and playback
              • Tune Wowza Streaming Engine for WebRTC optimal performance
              • Turn on an RTP jitter buffer and packet loss logging (RTP and MPEG-TS) in Wowza Streaming Engine
            • RTSP/RTP
              • Set up an application for RTSP/RTP streaming
              • Insert data into MPEG-TS streams
              • Insert ID3 data events into MPEG-TS streams
              • Troubleshoot RTSP/RTP playback
              • Generate and control MPEG-TS output for set-top boxes
              • Control video and audio PID and streamIDs for outgoing MPEG-TS
              • Play streams on RTSP/RTP players
              • Use secure RTP
            • RTMP
              •  Set up live streaming using an RTMP-based encoder
          • Adaptive bitrate streaming
            • Stream adaptive bitrate content
            • Set up adaptive bitrate streaming with MediaStreamNameGroups
            • Configure I-slice keyframe interpretation
            • Understanding SMIL file syntax
          • Use Transcoder
            • About Transcoder
            •  Set up and run Transcoder
            • Transcoder performance benchmark
            • Capture Transcoder benchmark statistics
            • Stream adaptive bitrate content
            • Replace missing video frames to ensure a consistent frame rate
            • Verify Transcoder hardware acceleration availability
            • Transcoder overlay image requirements
            • Stream using HEVC/H.265 transcoding
            • Transcode live streams to WebM for MPEG-DASH playback
            • Use video encoding parameters with Transcoder
            • Use video decoding parameters with Transcoder
            • Use audio encoding parameters with Transcoder
            • Transcode only the audio channel of an incoming stream
            • Configure B-frame generation
            • Reduce the frame rate in a transcoded stream
            • Fix a missing frame rate issue
            • Decode AAC and MP3 mono audio to stereo
            • Enable double-rate deinterlacing
            • Hardware acceleration
              • Server specifications for NVIDIA acceleration
              • Configure NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding
                • Set up NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Fedora
                • Set up NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Ubuntu
                • Set up NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on CentOS
                • Set up NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Debian
                • Configure NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Amazon EC2
              • Configure Advantech Vega-accelerated encoding for Wowza Streaming Engine on Linux
              • Configure AMD Xilinx accelerated transcoding
                • Introduction to AMD Xilinx acceleration
                • Server specifications for AMD Xilinx acceleration
                • Limitations of AMD Xilinx acceleration
                • Configure an AMD Xilinx accelerated transcoding
            • Migrate from Beamr to MainConcept in Wowza Streaming Engine
          • Distribute live streams
            • Use CDNs and services to distribute live streams
            • Stream to another Wowza Streaming Engine instance
            • Use Wowza CDN
              • Scaling Wowza Streaming Engine with Wowza CDN
              • Pull streams to Wowza CDN
              • Push streams to Wowza CDN
              • Send a stream from Wowza Streaming Engine for transcoding in Wowza Video
              •  Send Apple HLS content to Amazon S3 using Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Stream to the Akamai HD network
            •  Stream to Facebook Live
            • Stream to SHOUTcast and Icecast
            •  Stream to YouTube
            • Use MPEG-TS to distribute live streams
            • Use RTMP to distribute live streams
            • Use RTP to distribute live streams
            • Use SRT to distribute live streams
            • Sample map file entries
            • Debug Stream Targets (push publishing)
            • Change the audio language for MPEG-DASH stream targets
            • Use CMAF to distribute live streams from Wowza Streaming Engine
          • Troubleshoot live streaming
            • Fix unaligned video and audio with a server-side sort buffer
            • Turn on a jitter buffer and packet loss logging
            • Fix UDP packet loss (MPEG-TS/RTP)
            • Fix missing audio (MPEG-TS)
            • Fix missing or garbage video (MPEG-TS)
            • Reconnect to offline streams
            • Reduce interference between incoming multicast streams
            • Reduce delay before video playback starts
            • Simulate UDP packet loss to test streams (MPEG-TS/RTP)
            • Record incoming streams (MPEG-TS/RTP) for debugging
            • Fix common problems with .stream files
            • Fix MPEG-TS audio and video alignment
            • Fix TS packet alignment in UDP packets
            • Capture network traffic
          • On-demand streaming
            •  Set up VOD streaming
            • Publish a video file as a live stream
            • Encode VOD using FFmpeg
            • Include data events in MP4 recordings
            • Optimize the video bitrate
            • Specify a play start time and duration for HTTP streaming
            • Improve audio-on-demand MP3 duration accuracy
          • Closed captions
            • About closed captioning
            • Configure closed captioning for VOD streams
            • Specify a closed captioning language for VOD streams
            • Use external caption files with VOD streams
            • Closed captioning property reference for VOD streams
            • Configure closed captioning for live streams
            • Ingest MPEG-TS DVB Teletext data for closed captions
            • Configure WebVTT closed captioning
            • Upgrade closed captions for live streams in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.9.2
            • Determine the type of captions in a live stream
          • Record
            • About recording
            •  Record live streams
            • Record a live stream on a repeater edge
            • nDVR
              • About live stream nDVR in Wowza Streaming Engine
              • Plan your nDVR workflow
              • nDVR geting started guide
              • Set up and run nDVR
              • Advanced nDVR configuration
          • Players and playback
            • About playing Wowza Streaming Engine streams
            • Use Wowza Flowplayer with Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Play video using the HTML5 video tag
            • Configure VideoLAN VLC to play RTSP/RTP streams
          • Security
            • Security options
            • Configure security using Wowza Streaming Engine Manager
            • Use per-application password files
            • Protect streaming using SecureToken
            • Get the StreamNameAlias AddOn
            • SSL
              • Understanding SSL/TLS
              • Get SSL/TLS certificates from the StreamLock service
              • Request an SSL certificate from a certificate authority
              • Create a self-signed SSL certificate
              • Import an existing SSL certificate and private key
              • Configure multiple SSL certificates on one host port
              • Connect to Wowza Streaming Engine Manager over HTTPS
              • Improve SSL configuration
              • Improve SSL performance with Java 9
              • Manage StreamLock certificates
              • Troubleshoot SSL/TLS certificate configuration
            • Digital rights management
              • About digital rights management
              • Use BuyDRM KeyOS DRM (PlayReady)
              • Use BuyDRM KeyOS MultiPack
              • Use BuyDRM map files to protect streams
              • Use EZDRM FairPlay Streaming DRM (HLS)
              • Set up EZDRM Universal DRM (MPEG-DASH)
              • Use Verimatrix VCAS DRM (HLS)
              • Write a custom DRM module
              • Set up castLabs DRMtoday secure video delivery
          • Scaling and load balancing
            • About scaling
            • Repeater (origin-edge) streaming
              • Scale with live stream repeater
              •  Configure a live stream repeater
              • Set up a live stream repeater for use with nDVR
              • Configure Wowza Streaming Engine as an HTTP caching origin
              • Configure Wowza Streaming Engine to track client sessions as an HTTP caching origin
              • Lock multi-bitrate streams on a live stream repeater edge
            • Media Cache
              • Scale with Media Cache
              • Scale VOD streaming with Media Cache
              • Configure Media Cache source properties
              • Purge an item from Media Cache
              • Control item expiration from Media Cache
              • Configure Media Cache for nDVR
              • Optimize Media Cache performance
              • Troubleshoot Media Cache
              • Use the AWS SDK for Java to download content from an Amazon S3 bucket
            • Scale with HTTP Origin applications
            • About load balancing
            • Get the Dynamic Load Balancing AddOn
            • Load test a Wowza Streaming Engine server
          • Cloud deployments
            • About hosting Wowza Streaming Engine in the cloud
            • Deploy with Docker
              • Trial Wowza Streaming Engine with Docker Compose
              • Set up Wowza Streaming Engine on Docker (Linux)
            • Deploy to Amazon
              • About deploying Wowza Streaming Engine on Amazon
              •  Set up Wowza Streaming Engine for Linux on Amazon EC2
              • Update Wowza Streaming Engine on EC2
              • FAQ: Wowza Streaming Engine for Amazon EC2 with CloudFront
              • Integrate a Wowza Streaming Engine EC2 instance with CloudFront
              • Bring your license to CloudFront live HTTP streaming
              • Troubleshoot your CloudFront configuration
              • Use startup packages to configure an Amazon EC2 instance
              • Use Amazon S3 authorization with EC2 instances
            • Deploy to Google
              • Load balance servers on Google Cloud Platform
              • Set up Wowza Streaming Engine for Linux on Google Cloud Marketplace
            • Deploy to Microsoft Azure
              • Set up Wowza Streaming Engine for Linux on Azure
              •  Set up Wowza Streaming Engine for Windows on Azure
          • Server admin
            • Start and stop Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Manage users with the CLI password tool
            • Add a custom property
            • Tune Wowza Streaming Engine for performance
            • Monitor server connections, load, and application statistics
            • Connect to remote instances
            • Troubleshoot Wowza Streaming Engine installation
            • Manually install and troubleshoot Java
            • Create a Java heap dump
            • Create a Java stack trace
            • Troubleshoot licensing errors at startup
            • Configure Wowza Streaming Engine to use a proxy server to reach the license server
            •  Migrate Wowza Streaming Engine to a new server instance
            • Change the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager bind port
            • Enable UDP unicast and multicast port sharing
            • Run Wowza Streaming Engine as a named user (Linux)
            • Modify Wowza Streaming Engine init systems
            • See the Wowza Streaming Engine version number
            • Use JConsole with Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Use SNMP in Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Configure date headers for HTTP responses from HTTP providers
            • Support XFF headers in HTTP streaming requests
            • Collect information to debug connection count problems
            • Use IPv6 networking
            • Prepare config and log files for Support tickets
            • Disable JVM signal-handling
            • Uninstall Wowza Streaming Engine
            • Perform a silent installation of Wowza Streaming Engine
            • XML configuration reference
              • About XML configuration
              • Server.xml reference
              • MediaCache.xml reference
              • Tune.xml reference
              • VHost.xml reference
              • StartupStreams.xml reference
              • Application.xml reference
          • Logging
            • About logging in Wowza Streaming Engine
            • View log messages
            • Troubleshoot error messages
            • Configure VHost and application context logging
            • Enable debug logging
            • Configure log rolling
            • Log to a mySQL database
            • Analyze Wowza Streaming Engine logs
            • Configure a custom location for Wowza Streaming Engine log files
            • Legacy logging
              • Configure VHost and application context logging (legacy)
              • Configure log rolling (legacy)
              • Log to a MySQL database (legacy)
              • Log to a PostgreSQL database
              • Analyze Wowza Streaming Engine logs (legacy)
              • Configure the Log4j file appender (legacy)
              • Configure Wowza Streaming Engine log rolling by time and size (legacy)
        • Wowza Video
          • Wowza Video upgrade
          • Switch between Wowza Video Legacy and the new user experience
          • Overview of UI changes
          • Release notesUpdated
          • About Wowza Video
            • About Wowza Video
            • Free trial
            • Purchase a Wowza Video Pay-as-you-go subscription on AWS Marketplace
            • Known issues and limitations
            • Subscribe to Wowza status notifications
            • Technical specifications
            • Preferred maintenance schedule
            • Get help for Wowza Video
          • Quick start
            • Quick start for an RTMP live stream
          • Account and settings
            • Pay an invoice in Wowza Video
            • Manage users
            • Manage access tokens
            • Manage the image library
          • Guides
            • Videos (VOD)
              • Get started with videos
              • Prepare videos for upload
              • Upload a video
              • Use video metadata
              • Edit a video poster
              • Add an animated preview clip to a video
              • Add chapters, subtitles, and ad positions to a video
              • Add transcriptions to a video
              • Clip and stitch a video
              • Replace a video
              • Share a video
              • Advanced video publishing
              • Playlists
                • Overview of playlists
                • Create a manual playlist
                • Create a dynamic playlist
                • Share a playlist
              • Categories
                • Use categories and subcategories
            • Live stream
              • Quick live stream
              • Go live later
              • Create a fully-configurable live stream
              • Stream a video as live
              • Real-Time Streaming at Scale requirements
              • Stream on a 24x7 channel
              • Live stream in real-time
              • Deliver WebRTC streams to viewers
              • Stream in 4K
              • Deliver WebRTC streams to viewers for HLS playback
              • Live captioning with 3Play Media
              • Include closed captions in a live stream
              • Clip a live stream in Wowza Video
              • Connect to encoders
                • Connect to a SRT encoder
                • Connect to an RTSP encoder
                • Connect to vMix encoding software
                • Connect a Telestream Wirecast encoder
                • Connect to a LiveU encoder
                • Connect to a Teradek encoder
                • Connect to a Matrox Monarch HD encoder
              • Stream to social platforms
                • Stream to Facebook Live's Timeline with Wowza Video
                • Stream to Facebook Live using custom RTMPS
                • Stream to LinkedIn Live with Wowza Video
                • Stream to YouTube Live from Wowza Video
              • More Configurations/Refining your Streams
                • Embed a watermark in a live stream
            • Security
              • Security features for both live streams and videos
              • Live stream only
                • Security features for live streams
                • Add SRT PassPhrase for SRT streams in Wowza Video
                • Protect a Wowza CDN on Fastly stream target with token authentication
                • Secure HLS streams with AES-128 external encryption
                • Test AES encryption for HLS streams
                • Geo-block Wowza CDN on Fastly target
              • Video only
                • Security features for videos
            • Advertising
              • Get started with advertising
              • Create ad tags for advertising
              • Ad schedules
                • About ad schedules
                • Create a video ad serving template (VAST) ad schedule
                • Create a Google Ad Manager dynamic ad insertion ad schedule
                • Create a Server-side ad insertion ad schedule
              • Supported advertising formats and servers
              • Advertising troubleshooting
              • Testing CSAI ad tags in Wowza Video
            • Player
              • About player configurations
              • Create a player configuration
              • Advanced player configurations
              • Player tokens
                • Create or revoke a player token
            • Insights and analytics
              • Analytics
              • View stream health metrics
              • Quality of Experience
                • Quality of Experience metrics
                • Quality of Experience metrics benchmarking
                • Quality of Experience troubleshooting
            • Advanced
              • Transcoders
                • Create a custom transcoder with many outputs and targets
              • Stream targets
                • Add a stream target to a transcoder
                • Configure nDVR in Wowza Video
              • Stream sources
                • About Wowza Video stream sources
                • Control a transcoder with a Wowza stream source
          • Best Practices
            • Encoding best practices for Wowza Video
          • User interface reference
            • Account and Settings
              • User & org info page
              • Plans & products page
              • Billing & payment page
              • Account usage page
              • Invoices page
              • User management page
              • Token management page
              • Org settings page
              • Categories page
              • Image library page
            • Video details page
            • Playlists
              • Playlist setup page
              • Playlist details page
            • Live streams
              • Overview of the live stream setup pages
              • Quick live stream setup page
              • Go live later setup page
              • Stream a video as live setup page
              • Custom stream setup page
              • 24x7 channel setup page
              • Real-time stream setup page
              • Live stream details page
              • Real-time stream details page
            • Advertising
              • Ad tag setup page
              • Ad tag details page
              • Ad schedule setup page
              • Ad schedule details page
            • Players
              • Player configuration setup page
              • Player configuration details page
              • Player token setup page
              • Player token details page
            • Analytics
              • Current analytics page
              • Historic analytics page
              • Quality of Experience
                • Quality of Experience page
                • Video start time details page
                • Rebuffer time details page
                • Rebuffer count details page
            • Advanced
              • Transcoder setup page
              • Transcoder details page
              • Stream target setup page
              • Stream target details page
              • Stream source setup page
              • Stream source details page
        • Wowza Video Legacy
          • Wowza Video upgrade
          • About Wowza Video Legacy
          • Get started (Legacy)
            •  Get started with Wowza Video
            •  Video Series: Streaming with Wowza Video
          • Software updates (Legacy)
            • Wowza Video release notes
            • Known issues and limitations
            • Subscribe to Wowza Status notifications
            • FAQ: Update from Wowza Video Player to Wowza Flowplayer
          • Overview (Legacy)
            • Wowza Video free trial
            • Get help for Wowza Video
            • Decide between a live stream or transcoder workflow
            • Preferred maintenance schedule
            • Wowza Video technical specifications
          • Prepare and connect video sources (Legacy)
            • Encoding best practices
            • Wowza Video WebRTC workflows
            • Connect to Wowza Video
              • Connect a Wowza ClearCaster
              • Connect an Axis network camera
              • Connect an Epiphan Pearl encoder
              • Connect the Hauppauge StreamEez-Pro
              • Connect an IP camera
              • Connect a JVC ProHD camcorder
              • Connect a LiveU Solo encoder
              • Connect the Matrox Monarch HD
              • Connect NewTek TriCaster
              • Connect a MediaDS encoder
              • Connect an Osprey Talon encoder
              • Connect an RTMP encoder
              • Connect an RTSP encoder
              • Troubleshoot problematic or failed RTSP streams for IP cameras
              •  Connect an SRT encoder
              • Connect a UDP encoder
              • Deliver WebRTC streams for HLS playback
              • Deliver WebRTC streams to viewers
              • Connect the Sony SRG-300SE
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        •  About stream targets in Wowza Video Legacy
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