Newer Wowza version available

[waja]

Looking into https://www.wowza.com/blog/wowza-streaming-engine-version-4.2-has-been-released and https://www.wowza.com/blog/wowza-streaming-engine-version-4.3-has-been-released indicates there are newer versions available.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find *deb.bin files for it.

[sameersbn]

wowza switched to a new installer since version 4.2 which makes it difficult to install unattended. Due to this 4.1 is the last wowza version supported by the image. There will not be any new wowza versions packaged until there is some way to install wowza unattended during the image build process.

[waja]

Okay ... this was the expected answer. But still, there was hope. :-)

[rainabba]

Wowza 4.4.0 is out and required for GPU acceleration.

[stepan-romankov]

4.4.1 is out.Is it possible to upgrade cause 4.3 is already exists?

[mtneug]

#16 and #17 upgrade to Wowza 4.4.0/4.4.1, but we yet have no feedback from @sameersbn.

[stepan-romankov]

Version 4.5 has an important bug fix :

Fixed issue with some live-record recordings being out of lip sync (adjusted codec config timecodes to match first packet in list and fixed timecode of first data packet to match trimmed audio/video)

@sameersbn would you please check @mtneug commits and even upgrade image to 4.5? We really need it!

Thanks in advance.

[sameersbn]

Hi @stepan-romankov @mtneug @waja, Please note that Wowza Media Systems now packages and publishes an official docker image. Instructions for which are well documented in https://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?867-How-to-set-up-Wowza-Streaming-Engine-using-Docker.

I suggest you to evaluate the wowzamedia/wowza-streaming-engine-linux docker image for your usage.

Please close this report if that fixes the issue for you.

[mtneug]

Thanks for the notice @sameersbn.

I suggest you to evaluate the wowzamedia/wowza-streaming-engine-linux docker image for your usage.

Does that mean any Wowza updates will be rejected here? In other words, is this image now deprecated?

[sameersbn]

@mtneug i don't see a good reason for maintaining this image. Do you think this image adds any value over the wowza offering? I would like to know your thoughts.

If this image is something that we wish to continue maintaining, i would like to accept some collaborators and help keep it up to date.

[waja]

Anyone got managed to store configuration permanently? In the past I used /var/lib/wowza for this. wowzamedia/wowza-streaming-engine-linux seems not to offer this.
Basically https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-wowza/blob/master/entrypoint.sh#L48-L93 is missing.

[stepan-romankov]

@waja, Yes we did it for wowza 4.5 (seems path should be adjusted for wowza 4.6):

1. Put Application.xml into ./config/wowza/conf/live
2. Create empty directory ./config/wowza/applications/live/
3. Map volumes like this (we use Docker Compose):

  volumes:
    - ./config/wowza/applications/live/:/var/lib/Wowza/WowzaStreamingEngine-4.5.0/applications/live/
    - ./config/wowza/conf/live:/var/lib/Wowza/WowzaStreamingEngine-4.5.0/conf/live

[waja]

@stepan-romankov as I'm building an image on top of wowzamedia/wowza-streaming-engine-linux to have the Loadbalancer addon included, I added support for /var/lib/wowza back in, which is also done in this image.
Anyway ... I avoided lib/ merged with 560c966, cause you need to take care about the modules yourself on updates, which might not expected.