Hi Bryan, We use Wowza for streaming Islandora objects (MP4 videos over RTMP mostly, and played in VideoJS), and it's a very smooth system. For public videos that anyone can see, it works great. For restricted videos, there's built-in IP restriction in Wowza, which works well out of the box. But we weren't able to set it up with our proxy server so that off-campus users can authenticate (because RTMP doesn't go over HTTP, it doesn't get sent through the proxy). So for our reserves videos, we've installed Wrench, which is a plugin for Wowza, which works with videoJS (so as to not also have to use JW Player), that enables token-based authentication. Much as we prefer to support Open Source software, we did buy a license for Wrench.
Our streaming module, in case you're interested (all Wrench-enabling code was written by Paul Pound): https://github.com/roblib/islandora_solution_pack_streaming_media Example in use: https://bowingdownhome.ca/islandora/object/bdh%3A2628 On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Brown, Bryan <bjbr...@fsu.edu> wrote: > Florida State University Libraries is looking at different streaming media > servers we could use for various use cases (mainly as a backend that gets > called to serve up streaming videos by another application/site), and we've > settled on Wowza (https://www.wowza.com/) as a potential solution. Before > we move any further along down this road, I was wondering if anyone on the > list has used it before and could speak from personal experience about it? > > Bryan Brown > Web Developer > FSU Libraries > -- *Rosemary Le Faive* Digital Infrastructure and Discovery Librarian Robertson Library University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Ave, Charlottetown PE C1A 4P3 Canada tel: 902-566-0533 | fax: 902-628-4305 | email: rlefa...@upei.ca
