User guide

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Getting started
Last updated 8/28/2014
Adobe Media Server includes a Multicast Configurator tool and a Multicast Player. To access these tools from a web
browser, move them to the webroot directory on the instance.
1 Connect to the instance. Follow the steps in Connect to an instance and copy files from a Windows computeror
Connect to an instance and copy files from a Linux/UNIX computer.
2 The following directory contains the multicast tools:
/opt/adobe/ams/tools/multicast/
Move the multicast directory to the following location:
/mnt/webroot/
Using WinSCP to move the /multicast directory to the /mnt/webroot directory
Configure a multicast event
To multicast a live stream, use the Multicast Configurator to configure the streaming event. The Multicast Configurator
generates a Publisher Stream Name that you’ll use to publish a stream from Flash Media Live Encoder. The Multicast
Configurator also generates an F4M (Flash Manifest) file that you’ll use to play the stream in the Multicast Player.
to generate a stream name and a manifest file for the Multicast Player
1 Open the following URL in a web browser:
http://public-dns/multicast/configurator/configurator.html
For example:
http://ec2-174-129-151-131.compute-1.amazonaws.com/multicast/configurator/configurator.html
2 Select Peer to Peer multicast.
Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services does not support Fusion or IP Multicast.
3 Enter the server name (or IP address) and the full path to the multicast application:
rtmfp://public-dns/multicast
4 Enter the name of the live stream. This tutorial uses livestream.
5 Enter a publish password.
The password ensures that only the multicast server can publish a multicast stream into the group. Other peers do
not have the publish password and can only play the stream, not publish a stream.
6 Enter a name for the group. This tutorial uses the default name, ams.multicast.example.