User guide

Getting started

Last updated 8/28/2014

Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services includes an application called livepkgr that packages published streams

for delivery using HTTP Dynamic Streaming.

1 Open Flash Media Live Encoder and enter the following:

• In the Encoding Options panel, from the Preset pop-up menu, choose Multi Bitrate - 3 Streams (1500 Kbps) -

H.264.

• Click the wrench next to Format to open Advanced Encoder Settings. For Keyframe frequency, select 4 seconds.

Note: The Preset changes to Custom when you select this setting.

• For Bit Rate, choose 100, 200, and 350.

• For AMS URL, enter:

rtmp://public-dns/livepkgr

Use the Public DNS value of the instance from the AWS Management Console.

• For Stream, enter:

livestream%i?adbe-live-event=liveevent

• Deselect Save to File.

• Click Start to publish a stream to the livepkgr application on the instance.

2 Go to the Strobe Media Playback page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/smp.adobe/files/ and do the following:

a For Video Source, enter:

http://public-dns/live/events/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent.f4m

For example, if the Public DNS of the instance is ec2-184-72-148-15.compute-1.amazonaws.com, the Video

Source is:

http://ec2-184-72-148-15.compute-1.amazonaws.com/live/events/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent.f4m

b Are you using HTTP Streaming or Flash Access 2.0? Select Yes.

c Click Preview to update the Embed Code.

d Click the Play button to play the video from your Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services instance.

You can select other options in the Strobe Media Playback page. After you change an option, click Preview to update

the embed code.

To embed Strobe Media Playback in your own web page, copy the Preview Embed Code, and paste it into your

HTML page.

On-demand HTTP Dynamic Streaming

Note: This tutorial assumes that you’ve completed the on-demand streaming tutorial and know how to launch an instance

and connect to an instance.