From June 2021, the standalone website that hosted comfort and multiview streams for clients to view live feeds from the Bridges is has been migrated to the Eden platform. Any engineers with an admin login can now add a multiview stream for their project without having to rely on the Software Development team.
To add a new multiview or stream presentation to the multiview site, log in at multiview.ctlive.events/admin. We are only going to look at adding a new stream of the existing CT branded site however custom domains can be added by the Software Development team, and once they are configured the process of adding streams is the same.
Select Presentations from the left-hand menu, then click Add New
Fill in the Settings tab, giving your presentation a name which will appear in the header of the viewing page, a summary of the project or stream, set the Project to CT Multiview and finally enable the Publish option.
Next we configure the interactivity of the viewing page. As the site is designed for online events, we need to disable most of the functionality. Go to the Auditorium Controls tab, and copy the settings in the screenshot below.
In the Player Settings tab, upload a suitable poster and holding image. The poster image displays behind the play button when you load the page, the holding image is shown if the stream is not available for any reason. Plain sample images are available to download here. You can leave the other settings as default on this page.
In the Video Playlists tab, select Add New. Set a start and end date. This can be any amount of time required to cover the job and only really affects the event schedule function which we don’t need to use. Set both the Stream URL and the Clear Stream URL as required. Different CDNs have different settings so please refer to the instructions for the various streaming platforms later in this article to finish the configuration of this page. Finally on this tab, select the Tag as ‘No Tag’
Click Add to List to add this new video to the playlist, then click Submit to save.
As it stands, the presentation we have just created is entirely private as we have not given anyone, including our own login, permission to view it. Select Members from the left-hand menu, then Members Details/Roles from the expanded menu item. Click Add Member to create a viewing account for the client. If they have an account already, skip to the next section to add viewing permission to their existing account. You can use the filter to search for their account or email if you think they have one. If adding a new member, the email address doesn’t have to be real, it’s just a username and password for them to log in with.
Once added, or if the member already exists, click the little contact card icon by their name to edit the user. Give permission to view your new presentation by making sure the presentation you just added is enabled for this user at the bottom of this page and click Save to apply.
The viewers then logs in at multiview.ctlive.events
The username you created can be used to log in multiple times, or if they want individual logins that add more users. There is a user import function if the list of unique viewers is very long, but for most cases one shared login should be sufficient.
CDN and Player Setups
Using Wowza on the Eden Platform
To stream to the multiview site using Wowza, log in to the Wowza portal at cloud.wowza.com , select Live Stream and then Add New.
Give your stream a name, and ideally a J-number so we can reference it for billing purposes. Select a region, usually this will the closest point geographically so our ingest stream doesn’t have to get too far across the internet before arriving at Wowza. For events at CT, this is usually Belgium. Click Next
Now select your inout type. It’s likely that you are using Wowza because of the requirement for SRT so select Other SRT from the list of icons.
To stream to the multiview site using Wowza, log in to the Wowza portal at cloud.wowza.com , select Live Stream and then Add New.
Give your stream a name, and ideally a J-number so we can reference it for billing purposes. Select a region, usually this will the closest point geographically so our ingest stream doesn’t have to get too far across the internet before arriving at Wowza. For events at CT, this is usually Belgium. Click Next
Now select your inout type. It’s likely that you are using Wowza because of the requirement for SRT so select Other SRT from the list of icons.
When asked “Do you want to stream directly to Wowza Streaming Cloud CDN?”, answer No so that Wowza will produce multiple bitrate renditions to allow for poor internet connections and older devices. Selecting this enables a further set of options that need to be completed.
Click Next when you are happy and complete the next page which sets up the playback system. All the settings can stay as default as we don’t use these settings within the Eden platform.
Click Next, and select that you don’t want Wowza to host a webpage. All the additional options will then disappear. Click Next.
Review the settings and click Finish.
Scroll down the settings page which you are taken to and copy the HLS playback URL at the bottom of the page.
Return to the Video Playlist tab in your presentation on Eden and copy the HLS URL from Wowza into the stream URL and clear stream URL fields. Even though Eden handles the encryption Wowza uses, we have not enabled it in this instance so the field can stay blank. Select the player type as Wowza and change the tag drop-down to No Tag. Click Add to List, then Save.
Using Dolby.io (Formerly Millicast) on the Eden Platform
To stream an ultra low latency webRTC stream on the Eden platform using Dolby.io, log in to the service at streaming.dolby.io
Log in using the our CT account, details are available from the Software Team.
Click the + icon to add a new stream, change the token label to the name of your stream, ideally including the J-number to help with billing. Leave all the other fields as default and click Okay.
Click on the settings cog icon of the stream you have just created and select the API tab. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the Hosted Player Path.
Return to the Video Playlist tab in your presentation on Eden and copy the URL from Dolby.io into the stream URL and clear stream URL fields. Leave the encryption field blank, select the player type as iframe and change the tag drop-down to No Tag. Click Add to List, then Submit.
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