Wrench for Wowza Streaming Engine®
Wrench provides flexible authentication and authorization for Wowza Streaming Engine®. It provides creative ways to integrate video streams with your existing system, let it be a Drupal website, and Android application, or anything, using a techie bring-your-own-SQL approach.
Together with secured network transport, it gives you secure solution against unauthorized people accessing your streams.
Features
- User authentication and stream protection via securely generated tokens. How does it work?
- Allows hooking up existing external web service for authorization
- IP checking to prevent users from exchanging your links
- Token expiration check allows you to prevent users from reusing tokens later
- User-Agent black/whitelisting gives you control over the programs you allow to connect to your server
- Client lifecycle SQL hooks allow you to perform on-connect authorization checks, log total play time
- Pay-per-minute and pay-per-view SQL hooks allow you to precisely book and bill stream consumption per stream, per Wowza application and per user
- Concurrent play checking can prevent users from watching your stream concurrently from different devices and locations
- Bring-your-own-SQL approach for smooth integration
- Wordpress and Drupal integration
- Publish stream and pay-per-minute events by POSTing to arbitrary HTTP endpoint with JSON messages
- Protect your IP webcamera stream
- Convenient web user interface for on-the-fly configuration
- Insight into ongoing streaming sessions with disconnect user by name functionality
- WebRTC protocol support