Wowza: Seek certain part of video stream

Question

I have Wowza installed and would like to know if it's possible to stream a certain part of a video, e.g. 0:30 to 0:45 (15 second clip), over RTMP?

Answer 1

A couple of things:

• RTMP is a protocol for streaming, and Wowza supports it
• Seeking mechanisms are not streaming server specific, but protocol specific

So, what you want to do is seek into a video via RTMP. The fact that videos are hosted on Wowza does not matter. What is more of a question is "What player are you using?"

Here are some instructions for doing this with the JW Player, a very popular player.