PWI Playlist management Addon for Wowza Streaming Engine
The extension module is designed for TV automation and playout scheduling tasks for Wowza Streaming Engine It allows users to create a dynamic video playlist of MP4 files and live streams. The add-on can broadcast them 24/7 like a regular TV station.
Since the module publishes the stream on the server side, it reduces the number of components usually required for TV automation in encoder software, without subsequent publishing to Wowza Streaming Engine. With a server-side approach, you can easily provide your end users with TV automation services. End users can create their own TV channels via web management console.
Main scenarios
- Low-priority default playlist to loop MP4 files in the specified or random order 24/7
- Scheduled playlists to publish MP4 files or ingest live stream at exact time
- Weekly schedule of playlists
- High-priority playlists to immediately switch to a new MP4 or to live stream
- Playlists dynamic editing at anytime (add/delete/change the order of items)
- Live stream or emergency news file inserts
- Advertisement pauses
- Switching to MP4 files in the case of live stream outage
- Auto-detection of newer files in the directory
- Support of S3 and other cloud storages
- No server or application restart required to schedule or change a playlist
Main features
- Intuitive web management interface
- Rest API for integration of the module with third-party control panels and web portals
- Stream publishing to YouTube, other social nets or CDNs
- Multiple and scalable Wowza server deployment