Live Streams

Operations related to live streams. A live stream is a single, linear video broadcast. You broadcast a live stream by receiving encoded source video into the Wowza Video service and letting Wowza Video transcode the stream and deliver it to viewers. A live stream is essentially a one-stop method for creating a transcoder, output renditions, stream targets, and associated players.

Create a live stream

This operation creates a live stream.

Request
Request Body schema: application/json
required

Provide the details of the live stream to create in the body of the request.

required
object (live_stream)
broadcast_location
required
string (broadcast_location)

The location of your stream. Choose a location as close as possible to your video source.

Enum: "asia_pacific_australia" "asia_pacific_india" "asia_pacific_japan" "asia_pacific_singapore" "asia_pacific_s_korea" "asia_pacific_taiwan" "eu_belgium" "eu_germany" "eu_ireland" "south_america_brazil" "us_central_iowa" "us_east_s_carolina" "us_east_virginia" "us_west_california" "us_west_oregon"
encoder
required
string

The video source for the live stream. Choose the type of camera or encoder you're using to connect to the Wowza Video transcoder. If your specific device isn't listed, choose ipcamera, other_rtmp, or other_rtsp.

Enum: "wowza_clearcaster" "wowza_gocoder" "wowza_streaming_engine" "media_ds" "axis" "epiphan" "file" "hauppauge" "jvc" "live_u" "matrox" "newtek_tricaster" "osprey" "sony" "telestream_wirecast" "teradek_cube" "vmix" "x_split" "ipcamera" "other_rtmp" "other_rtsp" "other_webrtc" "other_udp" "other_srt"
name
required
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

aspect_ratio_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_width, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 720.

aspect_ratio_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_height, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 1280.

billing_mode
string

The billing mode for the stream.

Default: pay_as_you_go.

pay_as_you_go — Billed as a single event. A single event is use-based and you incur charges for the time spent streaming.

twentyfour_seven — Billed as a 24x7 channel. A 24x7 channel is unlimited stream time for one channel. This billing mode doesn't incur overages, since it's unlimited.

Enum: "pay_as_you_go" "twentyfour_seven"
closed_caption_type
string

The type of closed caption data being passed from the source. The default, none, indicates that no data is being provided. cea indicates that a CEA closed captioning data stream is being provided. on_text indicates that an onTextData closed captioning data stream is being provided. both indicates that both CEA and onTextData closed captioning data streams are being provided.

Example: "closed_caption_type": "none"

Enum: "none" "cea" "on_text" "both"
delivery_method
string

The type of connection between the video source and the transcoder. The default, push, instructs the source to push the stream to the transcoder. pull instructs the transcoder to pull the video from the source. cdn uses a stream source to deliver the stream to the transcoder.

Default: push

Example: "delivery_method": "pull"

Enum: "pull" "cdn" "push"
delivery_protocols
Array of strings

An array of direct delivery protocols enabled for this live stream. By default, rtmp, rtsp, webrtc, and wowz are enabled.

Example: See response body sample

description
string

An optional description of the live stream.

disable_authentication
boolean

Authentication is required by default for RTMP and RTSP push connections from a video source to Wowza Video. Specify true to disable authentication with the video source.

Example: "disable_authentication": false

object (hosted_page_request_object_create)

Configuration of the hosted page.

low_latency
boolean

For streams whose target_delivery_protocol is hls-https. If true, turns off incoming and sort packet buffers and delivers smaller video packets to the player, which can reduce latency as long as networks can handle the increased overhead. The default is false.

Example: "low_latency": false

password
string

A password for authenticating an RTMP or RTSP push connection. Can contain only uppercase and lowercase letters; numbers; and the period (.), underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters. No other special characters can be used.

Example: "password": 68332313

object (player_request_object_create)

The player object is deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface.

Any values you send using the player object will be ignored.

The following fields have been moved outside of the player object and reside within the live_stream object where you can still access them through the API:

  • logo_image
  • logo_position
  • video_poster_image
  • width
player_id
string

(Available from version 2.0) The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the player configuration to use for this stream.

When you pass a player configuration ID, Wowza Video uses that player configuration to customize and style the player. If you don't pass a value, the default player configuration for the account is used.

Create and edit player configurations in the user interface. The ID is on the General tab for the player configuration.

Default: Default player configuration

Example: 2205b4e8-b160-43c2-868d-d88698a4e850

logo_image
string

A Base64-encoded string representation of a GIF, JPEG, or PNG logo file that appears partially transparent in a corner of the player throughout playback. Logo file must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "logo_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

logo_position
string

The corner of the player in which you want the player logo to appear. The default is top-left.

Example: "logo_position": "top-right"

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
video_poster_image
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG poster image that appears in the player before the stream begins. Poster image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "video_poster_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of a fixed-size player. The default is 640.

Example: "width": 640

recording
boolean

If true, creates a recording of the live stream. The recording starts when the live stream starts and stops automatically when the live stream stops.

Recordings created from a live stream capture up to eight hours of content. If a live stream runs for longer than eight hours, the most recent eight hours are recorded. To record more than eight hours of a single broadcast, stop the live stream and start it again to create multiple recordings.

Default: false

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true recording value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

Example: "recording": true

reference_id
string

A unique, alphanumeric ID returned in transcoder webhook payloads. Setting a reference_id is useful if you have an ID in your system or application you want to associate with transcoder events that trigger webhooks. Maximum 70 characters. Can only contain: a-z A-Z 0-9 !@#$%^&*()-_+=:;,.?~|

You can't use brackets or quotation marks.

See Wowza Video Webhook Event Reference Documentation to learn about webhooks.

Available from version 1.7.

Example: "reference_id": "mySystemID_01"

save_asset
boolean

If true, saves an MP4 recording and a VOD asset in Asset Management. The default is false. You can't set save_asset for a live stream created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management.

Note: If this value is true, recording and/or vod_stream are set to false. You need a Wowza Video subscription to access Asset Management.

Available from version 1.8.

Example: "save_asset": true

object

Configuration of stream security. These settings only apply to Wowza CDN on Fastly stream targets, not Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, or custom targets.

source_url
string

For the delivery_method pull or encoder file.

For pull, enter the URL of an IP camera or video encoder using an RTMP and RTSP pull connection to Wowza Video. Consult the camera or encoder documentation for the URL syntax.

For file, enter the source file URL, including the protocol (http, https, gs, s3).

Example: "source_url": "xyz.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:Movie.mov"

target_delivery_protocol
string

The type of stream being delivered from Wowza Video. The default and only valid value is hls-https.

Example: "target_delivery_protocol": "hls-https"

Value: "hls-https"
transcoder_type
string

The type of transcoder, either transcoded for streams that are transcoded into adaptive bitrate renditions or passthrough for streams that aren't processed by the transcoder.

Note: passthrough isn't supported in the asia_pacific_singapore region.

Default: transcoded.

Enum: "transcoded" "passthrough"
use_stream_source
boolean

If true, uses a stream source to deliver the stream to Wowza Video. The default, false, pushes directly to Wowza Video.

Example: "use_stream_source": false

username
string

A user name for authenticating an RTMP or RTSP push connection. Can contain only uppercase and lowercase letters; numbers; and the period (.), underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters. No other special characters can be used.

Example: "username": "client2"

vod_stream
boolean

If true, creates a VOD stream after the live stream ends. The default is false. VOD streams require a Fastly stream target with HLS as a delivery protocol.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true vod_stream value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

Example: "vod_stream": true

watermark
boolean

Embeds an image into the transcoded stream for copyright protection. Specify true to embed a watermark image.

Example: "watermark": true

watermark_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image height.

Example: "watermark_height": 80

watermark_image
string

A Base64-encoded string representation of a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that is embedded in all bitrate renditions of the stream. Watermark image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "watermark_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

watermark_opacity
integer <int32>

The opacity, or percentage of transparency, of the watermark. 0 is fully transparent; 100 is fully opaque.

Example: "watermark_opacity": 75

Enum: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
watermark_position
string

The corner of the video frame in which you want the watermark to appear. The default is top-left.

Example: "watermark_position": "top-left"

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
watermark_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image width.

Example: "watermark_width": 100

countdown
boolean

Enables or disables a countdown timer.

countdown_at
string <date-time>

The month, day, year, and time of day that the countdown timer should stop displaying to the viewer. Specify YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

For example, if you set the countdown_at for 2024-12-15T17:00:00:000Z and the countdown_timezone as America/New_York, the viewer would see their current time minus the time remaining until the date and time you set. So, if there's 5 hours to go until 1700 NYC time for the viewer, the viewer sees 5:00:00 on the player indicating there are 5 hours left, then the timer counts down from there. The countdown starts as soon as the streamer configures it.

Required when countdown is true.

Example: "countdown_at": "2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"

countdown_timezone
string

The time zone the countdown timer runs in. Required when countdown is true.

Click to expand for the full list of valid values
Locations Wowza Video time_zone value
International Date Line West Etc/GMT+12
Midway Island Pacific/Midway
American Samoa Pacific/Pago_Pago
Hawaii Pacific/Honolulu
Alaska America/Juneau
Pacific Time (US & Canada) America/Los_Angeles
Tijuana America/Tijuana
Mountain Time (US & Canada) America/Denver
Arizona America/Phoenix
Chihuahua America/Chihuahua
Mazatlan America/Mazatlan
Central Time (US & Canada) America/Chicago
Saskatchewan America/Regina
Guadalajara America/Mexico_City
Mexico City America/Mexico_City
Monterrey America/Monterrey
Central America America/Guatemala
Eastern Time (US & Canada) America/New_York
Indiana (East) America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Bogota America/Bogota
Lima America/Lima
Quito America/Lima
Atlantic Time (Canada) America/Halifax
Caracas America/Caracas
La Paz America/La_Paz
Santiago America/Santiago
Newfoundland America/St_Johns
Brasilia America/Sao_Paulo
Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
Montevideo America/Montevideo
Georgetown America/Guyana
Puerto Rico America/Puerto_Rico
Greenland America/Godthab
Mid-Atlantic Atlantic/South_Georgia
Azores Atlantic/Azores
Cape Verde Is. Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Dublin Europe/Dublin
Edinburgh Europe/London
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon
London Europe/London
Casablanca Africa/Casablanca
Monrovia Africa/Monrovia
UTC Etc/UTC
Belgrade Europe/Belgrade
Bratislava Europe/Bratislava
Budapest Europe/Budapest
Ljubljana Europe/Ljubljana
Prague Europe/Prague
Sarajevo Europe/Sarajevo
Skopje Europe/Skopje
Warsaw Europe/Warsaw
Zagreb Europe/Zagreb
Brussels Europe/Brussels
Copenhagen Europe/Copenhagen
Madrid Europe/Madrid
Paris Europe/Paris
Amsterdam Europe/Amsterdam
Berlin Europe/Berlin
Bern Europe/Zurich
Zurich Europe/Zurich
Rome Europe/Rome
Stockholm Europe/Stockholm
Vienna Europe/Vienna
West Central Africa Africa/Algiers
Bucharest Europe/Bucharest
Cairo Africa/Cairo
Helsinki Europe/Helsinki
Kyiv Europe/Kiev
Riga Europe/Riga
Sofia Europe/Sofia
Tallinn Europe/Tallinn
Vilnius Europe/Vilnius
Athens Europe/Athens
Istanbul Europe/Istanbul
Minsk Europe/Minsk
Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem
Harare Africa/Harare
Pretoria Africa/Johannesburg
Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad
Moscow Europe/Moscow
St. Petersburg Europe/Moscow
Volgograd Europe/Volgograd
Samara Europe/Samara
Kuwait Asia/Kuwait
Riyadh Asia/Riyadh
Nairobi Africa/Nairobi
Baghdad Asia/Baghdad
Tehran Asia/Tehran
Abu Dhabi Asia/Muscat
Muscat Asia/Muscat
Baku Asia/Baku
Tbilisi Asia/Tbilisi
Yerevan Asia/Yerevan
Kabul Asia/Kabul
Ekaterinburg Asia/Yekaterinburg
Islamabad Asia/Karachi
Karachi Asia/Karachi
Tashkent Asia/Tashkent
Chennai Asia/Kolkata
Kolkata Asia/Kolkata
Mumbai Asia/Kolkata
New Delhi Asia/Kolkata
Kathmandu Asia/Kathmandu
Astana Asia/Dhaka
Dhaka Asia/Dhaka
Sri Jayawardenepura Asia/Colombo
Almaty Asia/Almaty
Novosibirsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Rangoon Asia/Rangoon
Bangkok Asia/Bangkok
Hanoi Asia/Bangkok
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta
Krasnoyarsk Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Beijing Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Asia/Chongqing
Hong Kong Asia/Hong_Kong
Urumqi Asia/Urumqi
Kuala Lumpur Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Singapore Asia/Singapore
Taipei Asia/Taipei
Perth Australia/Perth
Irkutsk Asia/Irkutsk
Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Seoul Asia/Seoul
Osaka Asia/Tokyo
Sapporo Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
Yakutsk Asia/Yakutsk
Darwin Australia/Darwin
Adelaide Australia/Adelaide
Canberra Australia/Melbourne
Melbourne Australia/Melbourne
Sydney Australia/Sydney
Brisbane Australia/Brisbane
Hobart Australia/Hobart
Vladivostok Asia/Vladivostok
Guam Pacific/Guam
Port Moresby Pacific/Port_Moresby
Magadan Asia/Magadan
Srednekolymsk Asia/Srednekolymsk
Solomon Is. Pacific/Guadalcanal
New Caledonia Pacific/Noumea
Fiji Pacific/Fiji
Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka
Marshall Is. Pacific/Majuro
Auckland Pacific/Auckland
Wellington Pacific/Auckland
Nuku'alofa Pacific/Tongatapu
Tokelau Is. Pacific/Fakaofo
Chatham Is. Pacific/Chatham
Samoa Pacific/Apia

Default: Etc/UTC

Example: America/New_York

Responses
201

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
aspect_ratio_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_width, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 720.

aspect_ratio_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_height, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 1280.

asset_id
string

Only applies to live streams created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management. The id for the asset associated with the re-streamed live stream. You can manage this asset in Asset Management.

billing_mode
string

The billing mode for the stream.

Default: pay_as_you_go.

pay_as_you_go — Billed as a single event. A single event is use-based and you incur charges for the time spent streaming.

twentyfour_seven — Billed as a 24x7 channel. A 24x7 channel is unlimited stream time for one channel. This billing mode doesn't incur overages, since it's unlimited.

Enum: "pay_as_you_go" "twentyfour_seven"
broadcast_location
string (broadcast_location)

The location of your stream. Choose a location as close as possible to your video source.

Enum: "asia_pacific_australia" "asia_pacific_india" "asia_pacific_japan" "asia_pacific_singapore" "asia_pacific_s_korea" "asia_pacific_taiwan" "eu_belgium" "eu_germany" "eu_ireland" "south_america_brazil" "us_central_iowa" "us_east_s_carolina" "us_east_virginia" "us_west_california" "us_west_oregon"
closed_caption_type
string

The type of closed caption data being passed from the source. The default, none, indicates that no data is being provided. cea indicates that a CEA closed captioning data stream is being provided. on_text indicates that an onTextData closed captioning data stream is being provided. both indicates that both CEA and onTextData closed captioning data streams are being provided.

Enum: "none" "cea" "on_text" "both"
connection_code
string

A six-character, alphanumeric string that allows certain encoders, including Wowza Streaming Engine and the Wowza GoCoder app, to connect with Wowza Video. The code can be used once and expires 24 hours after it's created.

connection_code_expires_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the connection_code expires.

created_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was created.

delivery_method
string

The type of connection between the video source and the transcoder. The default, push, instructs the source to push the stream to the transcoder. pull instructs the transcoder to pull the video from the source. cdn uses a stream source to deliver the stream to the transcoder.

Enum: "pull" "cdn" "push"
delivery_protocols
Array of strings

An array of direct delivery protocols enabled for this live stream. By default, rtmp, rtsp, webrtc, and wowz are enabled.

description
string

An optional description of the live stream.

object

A list of direct playback URLs for the live stream's delivery protocols. Each protocol has a URL for the source and a URL for each output rendition.

encoder
string

The video source for the live stream. Choose the type of camera or encoder you're using to connect to the Wowza Video transcoder. If your specific device isn't listed, choose ipcamera, other_rtmp, or other_rtsp.

Enum: "wowza_clearcaster" "wowza_gocoder" "wowza_streaming_engine" "media_ds" "axis" "epiphan" "file" "hauppauge" "jvc" "live_u" "matrox" "newtek_tricaster" "osprey" "sony" "telestream_wirecast" "teradek_cube" "vmix" "x_split" "ipcamera" "other_rtmp" "other_rtsp" "other_webrtc" "other_udp" "other_srt"
flowplayer
boolean

Indicates whether or not the player for the live stream is a Wowza Flowplayer player. True indicates the player is a Wowza Flowplayer player. Our new Wowza Video experience uses Wowza Flowplayer. If you are a Wowza Video legacy subscriber, Wowza Flowplayer is also the player used.

False indicates the player is either an original_html5 player or wowza_player. The original HTML and Wowza players are the players available for Wowza Streaming Cloud subscribers.

object (hosted_page_response_object)

Configuration of the hosted page.

id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

low_latency
boolean

For streams whose target_delivery_protocol is hls-https. If true, turns off incoming and sort packet buffers and delivers smaller video packets to the player, which can reduce latency as long as networks can handle the increased overhead. The default is false.

name
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

playback_stream_name
string

The stream name used in the direct playback URL.

object (player_response_object)

The player object is deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface.

Any values you send using the player object will be ignored.

The following fields have been moved outside of the player object and reside within the live_stream object where you can still access them through the API:

  • embed_code
  • hls_playback_url
  • logo_image_url
  • logo_position
  • video_poster_image_url
  • width
player_id
string

(Available from version 2.0) The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the player configuration to use for this stream.

When you pass a player configuration ID, Wowza Video uses that player configuration to customize and style the player. If you don't pass a value, the default player configuration for the account is used.

Create and edit player configurations in the user interface. The ID is on the General tab for the player configuration.

Default: Default player configuration

Note: player_id is not returned in the response if it's not explicitly sent and the default player configuration is used instead.

Example: 2205b4e8-b160-43c2-868d-d88698a4e850

player_type
string

(Available from version 2.0) The type of player associated with the stream. Streams created in legacy Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v1. Streams created in later versions of Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v2.

Knowing the player type is useful if you've migrated streams from legacy Wowza Video. The player for a stream created in the legacy version of Wowza Video isn't editable in the new platform.

Example: wowza_flowplayer_v1

Enum: "wowza_flowplayer_v1" "wowza_flowplayer_v2"
embed_code
string

The HTML code that can be used in an external webpage to host the Wowza Flowplayer.

hls_playback_url
string

The address that can be used to configure playback of the stream using the HLS protocol.

countdown_at
string <date-time>

The month, day, year, and time of day that the countdown timer should stop displaying to the viewer. Specify YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. The response is in UTC time.

For example, if you set the countdown_at for 2024-12-15T17:00:00:000Z and the countdown_timezone as America/New_York, the viewer would see their current time minus the time remaining until the date and time you set. So, if there's 5 hours to go until 1700 NYC time for the viewer, the viewer sees 5:00:00 on the player indicating their's 5 hours left and the timer counts down from there. The countdown starts as soon as the streamer configures it.

Required when countdown is true.

Example: "countdown_at": "2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"

countdown_timezone
string

The time zone the countdown timer runs in.

Required when countdown is true.

Click to expand for the full list of valid values
Locations Wowza Video time_zone value
International Date Line West Etc/GMT+12
Midway Island Pacific/Midway
American Samoa Pacific/Pago_Pago
Hawaii Pacific/Honolulu
Alaska America/Juneau
Pacific Time (US & Canada) America/Los_Angeles
Tijuana America/Tijuana
Mountain Time (US & Canada) America/Denver
Arizona America/Phoenix
Chihuahua America/Chihuahua
Mazatlan America/Mazatlan
Central Time (US & Canada) America/Chicago
Saskatchewan America/Regina
Guadalajara America/Mexico_City
Mexico City America/Mexico_City
Monterrey America/Monterrey
Central America America/Guatemala
Eastern Time (US & Canada) America/New_York
Indiana (East) America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Bogota America/Bogota
Lima America/Lima
Quito America/Lima
Atlantic Time (Canada) America/Halifax
Caracas America/Caracas
La Paz America/La_Paz
Santiago America/Santiago
Newfoundland America/St_Johns
Brasilia America/Sao_Paulo
Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
Montevideo America/Montevideo
Georgetown America/Guyana
Puerto Rico America/Puerto_Rico
Greenland America/Godthab
Mid-Atlantic Atlantic/South_Georgia
Azores Atlantic/Azores
Cape Verde Is. Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Dublin Europe/Dublin
Edinburgh Europe/London
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon
London Europe/London
Casablanca Africa/Casablanca
Monrovia Africa/Monrovia
UTC Etc/UTC
Belgrade Europe/Belgrade
Bratislava Europe/Bratislava
Budapest Europe/Budapest
Ljubljana Europe/Ljubljana
Prague Europe/Prague
Sarajevo Europe/Sarajevo
Skopje Europe/Skopje
Warsaw Europe/Warsaw
Zagreb Europe/Zagreb
Brussels Europe/Brussels
Copenhagen Europe/Copenhagen
Madrid Europe/Madrid
Paris Europe/Paris
Amsterdam Europe/Amsterdam
Berlin Europe/Berlin
Bern Europe/Zurich
Zurich Europe/Zurich
Rome Europe/Rome
Stockholm Europe/Stockholm
Vienna Europe/Vienna
West Central Africa Africa/Algiers
Bucharest Europe/Bucharest
Cairo Africa/Cairo
Helsinki Europe/Helsinki
Kyiv Europe/Kiev
Riga Europe/Riga
Sofia Europe/Sofia
Tallinn Europe/Tallinn
Vilnius Europe/Vilnius
Athens Europe/Athens
Istanbul Europe/Istanbul
Minsk Europe/Minsk
Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem
Harare Africa/Harare
Pretoria Africa/Johannesburg
Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad
Moscow Europe/Moscow
St. Petersburg Europe/Moscow
Volgograd Europe/Volgograd
Samara Europe/Samara
Kuwait Asia/Kuwait
Riyadh Asia/Riyadh
Nairobi Africa/Nairobi
Baghdad Asia/Baghdad
Tehran Asia/Tehran
Abu Dhabi Asia/Muscat
Muscat Asia/Muscat
Baku Asia/Baku
Tbilisi Asia/Tbilisi
Yerevan Asia/Yerevan
Kabul Asia/Kabul
Ekaterinburg Asia/Yekaterinburg
Islamabad Asia/Karachi
Karachi Asia/Karachi
Tashkent Asia/Tashkent
Chennai Asia/Kolkata
Kolkata Asia/Kolkata
Mumbai Asia/Kolkata
New Delhi Asia/Kolkata
Kathmandu Asia/Kathmandu
Astana Asia/Dhaka
Dhaka Asia/Dhaka
Sri Jayawardenepura Asia/Colombo
Almaty Asia/Almaty
Novosibirsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Rangoon Asia/Rangoon
Bangkok Asia/Bangkok
Hanoi Asia/Bangkok
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta
Krasnoyarsk Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Beijing Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Asia/Chongqing
Hong Kong Asia/Hong_Kong
Urumqi Asia/Urumqi
Kuala Lumpur Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Singapore Asia/Singapore
Taipei Asia/Taipei
Perth Australia/Perth
Irkutsk Asia/Irkutsk
Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Seoul Asia/Seoul
Osaka Asia/Tokyo
Sapporo Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
Yakutsk Asia/Yakutsk
Darwin Australia/Darwin
Adelaide Australia/Adelaide
Canberra Australia/Melbourne
Melbourne Australia/Melbourne
Sydney Australia/Sydney
Brisbane Australia/Brisbane
Hobart Australia/Hobart
Vladivostok Asia/Vladivostok
Guam Pacific/Guam
Port Moresby Pacific/Port_Moresby
Magadan Asia/Magadan
Srednekolymsk Asia/Srednekolymsk
Solomon Is. Pacific/Guadalcanal
New Caledonia Pacific/Noumea
Fiji Pacific/Fiji
Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka
Marshall Is. Pacific/Majuro
Auckland Pacific/Auckland
Wellington Pacific/Auckland
Nuku'alofa Pacific/Tongatapu
Tokelau Is. Pacific/Fakaofo
Chatham Is. Pacific/Chatham
Samoa Pacific/Apia

Default: Etc/UTC

Example: America/New_York

countdown
boolean

Enables or disables a countdown timer.

logo_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG logo file that appears partially transparent in a corner of the player throughout playback. Logo file must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

logo_position
string

The corner of the player in which you want the player logo to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
video_poster_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG poster image that appears in the player before the stream begins. Poster image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of a fixed-size player. The default is 640.

recording
boolean

If true, creates a recording of the live stream. The recording starts when the live stream starts and stops automatically when the live stream stops.

Recordings created from a live stream capture up to eight hours of content. If a live stream runs for longer than eight hours, the most recent eight hours are recorded. To record more than eight hours of a single broadcast, stop the live stream and start it again to create multiple recordings.

Default: false.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true recording value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

reference_id
string

A unique, alphanumeric ID returned in transcoder webhook payloads. Setting a reference_id is useful if you have an ID in your system or application you want to associate with transcoder events that trigger webhooks. Maximum 70 characters. Can only contain: a-z A-Z 0-9 !@#$%^&*()-_+=:;,.?~|

You can't use brackets or quotation marks.

See Wowza Video Webhook Event Reference Documentation to learn about webhooks.

Available from version 1.7.

save_asset
boolean

If true, saves an MP4 recording and a VOD asset in Asset Management. The default is false. You can't set save_asset for a live stream created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management.

Note: If this value is true, recording and/or vod_stream are set to false. You need a Wowza Video subscription to access Asset Management.

Available from version 1.8.

object

Configuration of stream security. These settings only apply to Wowza CDN on Fastly stream targets, not Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, or custom targets.

source_connection_information
object

Details that you can use to manually configure and connect a video source to the live stream.

state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "starting" "stopping" "started" "stopped" "resetting"
stream_source_id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the stream source, if a stream source is used.

Array of objects (stream_targets)

An array of unique alphanumeric strings that identify the stream targets used by the live stream.

target_delivery_protocol
string

The type of stream being delivered from Wowza Video. The default and only valid value is hls-https.

Value: "hls-https"
transcoder_type
string

The type of transcoder, either transcoded for streams that are transcoded into adaptive bitrate renditions or passthrough for streams that aren't processed by the transcoder.

Note: passthrough isn't supported in the asia_pacific_singapore region.

Default: transcoded.

Enum: "transcoded" "passthrough"
updated_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was updated.

use_stream_source
boolean

If true, uses a stream source to deliver the stream to Wowza Video. The default, false, pushes directly to Wowza Video.

vod_stream
boolean

If true, creates a VOD stream after the live stream ends. The default is false. VOD streams require a Fastly stream target with HLS as a delivery protocol.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true vod_stream value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

watermark
boolean

Embeds an image into the transcoded stream for copyright protection. Specify true to embed a watermark image.

watermark_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image height.

watermark_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that is embedded in all bitrate renditions of the stream. Watermark image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

watermark_opacity
integer <int32>

The opacity, or percentage of transparency, of the watermark. 0 is fully transparent; 100 is fully opaque.

Enum: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
watermark_position
string

The corner of the video frame in which you want the watermark to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
watermark_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image width.

401

Unauthorized

422

Unprocessable Entity

post/live_streams
Request samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Fetch all live streams

This operation shows limited details for all of your live streams. For detailed information, fetch a single live stream.

Request
query Parameters
filter
string

Restricts the data that gets returned by filtering on one or more values associated with a field. Construct a filter using a two-part expression that specifies the field on which to filter and the logic to use to filter. Filters use a zero-based index.

For valid filter operators and filter fields, see How to get filtered query results with the Wowza Video REST API.

Example: filter[0][field]=state&filter[0][eq]=stopped

page
integer

Returns a paginated view of results from the HTTP request. Specify a positive integer to indicate which page of the results should be displayed. The default is 1.

For more information and examples, see Get paginated query results with the Wowza Video REST API.

per_page
integer

For use with the page parameter. Indicates how many records should be included in a page of results. A valid value is any positive integer. The default and maximum value is 1000.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
Array of objects (live_streams)
Array
created_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was created.

id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

name
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "starting" "stopping" "started" "stopped" "resetting"
updated_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was updated.

401

Unauthorized

get/live_streams
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "GET" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_streams": [
    ]
}

Fetch a live stream

This operation shows the details of a specific live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
aspect_ratio_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_width, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 720.

aspect_ratio_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_height, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 1280.

asset_id
string

Only applies to live streams created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management. The id for the asset associated with the re-streamed live stream. You can manage this asset in Asset Management.

billing_mode
string

The billing mode for the stream.

Default: pay_as_you_go.

pay_as_you_go — Billed as a single event. A single event is use-based and you incur charges for the time spent streaming.

twentyfour_seven — Billed as a 24x7 channel. A 24x7 channel is unlimited stream time for one channel. This billing mode doesn't incur overages, since it's unlimited.

Enum: "pay_as_you_go" "twentyfour_seven"
broadcast_location
string (broadcast_location)

The location of your stream. Choose a location as close as possible to your video source.

Enum: "asia_pacific_australia" "asia_pacific_india" "asia_pacific_japan" "asia_pacific_singapore" "asia_pacific_s_korea" "asia_pacific_taiwan" "eu_belgium" "eu_germany" "eu_ireland" "south_america_brazil" "us_central_iowa" "us_east_s_carolina" "us_east_virginia" "us_west_california" "us_west_oregon"
closed_caption_type
string

The type of closed caption data being passed from the source. The default, none, indicates that no data is being provided. cea indicates that a CEA closed captioning data stream is being provided. on_text indicates that an onTextData closed captioning data stream is being provided. both indicates that both CEA and onTextData closed captioning data streams are being provided.

Enum: "none" "cea" "on_text" "both"
connection_code
string

A six-character, alphanumeric string that allows certain encoders, including Wowza Streaming Engine and the Wowza GoCoder app, to connect with Wowza Video. The code can be used once and expires 24 hours after it's created.

connection_code_expires_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the connection_code expires.

created_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was created.

delivery_method
string

The type of connection between the video source and the transcoder. The default, push, instructs the source to push the stream to the transcoder. pull instructs the transcoder to pull the video from the source. cdn uses a stream source to deliver the stream to the transcoder.

Enum: "pull" "cdn" "push"
delivery_protocols
Array of strings

An array of direct delivery protocols enabled for this live stream. By default, rtmp, rtsp, webrtc, and wowz are enabled.

description
string

An optional description of the live stream.

object

A list of direct playback URLs for the live stream's delivery protocols. Each protocol has a URL for the source and a URL for each output rendition.

encoder
string

The video source for the live stream. Choose the type of camera or encoder you're using to connect to the Wowza Video transcoder. If your specific device isn't listed, choose ipcamera, other_rtmp, or other_rtsp.

Enum: "wowza_clearcaster" "wowza_gocoder" "wowza_streaming_engine" "media_ds" "axis" "epiphan" "file" "hauppauge" "jvc" "live_u" "matrox" "newtek_tricaster" "osprey" "sony" "telestream_wirecast" "teradek_cube" "vmix" "x_split" "ipcamera" "other_rtmp" "other_rtsp" "other_webrtc" "other_udp" "other_srt"
flowplayer
boolean

Indicates whether or not the player for the live stream is a Wowza Flowplayer player. True indicates the player is a Wowza Flowplayer player. Our new Wowza Video experience uses Wowza Flowplayer. If you are a Wowza Video legacy subscriber, Wowza Flowplayer is also the player used.

False indicates the player is either an original_html5 player or wowza_player. The original HTML and Wowza players are the players available for Wowza Streaming Cloud subscribers.

object (hosted_page_response_object)

Configuration of the hosted page.

id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

low_latency
boolean

For streams whose target_delivery_protocol is hls-https. If true, turns off incoming and sort packet buffers and delivers smaller video packets to the player, which can reduce latency as long as networks can handle the increased overhead. The default is false.

name
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

playback_stream_name
string

The stream name used in the direct playback URL.

object (player_response_object)

The player object is deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface.

Any values you send using the player object will be ignored.

The following fields have been moved outside of the player object and reside within the live_stream object where you can still access them through the API:

  • embed_code
  • hls_playback_url
  • logo_image_url
  • logo_position
  • video_poster_image_url
  • width
player_id
string

(Available from version 2.0) The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the player configuration to use for this stream.

When you pass a player configuration ID, Wowza Video uses that player configuration to customize and style the player. If you don't pass a value, the default player configuration for the account is used.

Create and edit player configurations in the user interface. The ID is on the General tab for the player configuration.

Default: Default player configuration

Note: player_id is not returned in the response if it's not explicitly sent and the default player configuration is used instead.

Example: 2205b4e8-b160-43c2-868d-d88698a4e850

player_type
string

(Available from version 2.0) The type of player associated with the stream. Streams created in legacy Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v1. Streams created in later versions of Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v2.

Knowing the player type is useful if you've migrated streams from legacy Wowza Video. The player for a stream created in the legacy version of Wowza Video isn't editable in the new platform.

Example: wowza_flowplayer_v1

Enum: "wowza_flowplayer_v1" "wowza_flowplayer_v2"
embed_code
string

The HTML code that can be used in an external webpage to host the Wowza Flowplayer.

hls_playback_url
string

The address that can be used to configure playback of the stream using the HLS protocol.

countdown_at
string <date-time>

The month, day, year, and time of day that the countdown timer should stop displaying to the viewer. Specify YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. The response is in UTC time.

For example, if you set the countdown_at for 2024-12-15T17:00:00:000Z and the countdown_timezone as America/New_York, the viewer would see their current time minus the time remaining until the date and time you set. So, if there's 5 hours to go until 1700 NYC time for the viewer, the viewer sees 5:00:00 on the player indicating their's 5 hours left and the timer counts down from there. The countdown starts as soon as the streamer configures it.

Required when countdown is true.

Example: "countdown_at": "2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"

countdown_timezone
string

The time zone the countdown timer runs in.

Required when countdown is true.

Click to expand for the full list of valid values
Locations Wowza Video time_zone value
International Date Line West Etc/GMT+12
Midway Island Pacific/Midway
American Samoa Pacific/Pago_Pago
Hawaii Pacific/Honolulu
Alaska America/Juneau
Pacific Time (US & Canada) America/Los_Angeles
Tijuana America/Tijuana
Mountain Time (US & Canada) America/Denver
Arizona America/Phoenix
Chihuahua America/Chihuahua
Mazatlan America/Mazatlan
Central Time (US & Canada) America/Chicago
Saskatchewan America/Regina
Guadalajara America/Mexico_City
Mexico City America/Mexico_City
Monterrey America/Monterrey
Central America America/Guatemala
Eastern Time (US & Canada) America/New_York
Indiana (East) America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Bogota America/Bogota
Lima America/Lima
Quito America/Lima
Atlantic Time (Canada) America/Halifax
Caracas America/Caracas
La Paz America/La_Paz
Santiago America/Santiago
Newfoundland America/St_Johns
Brasilia America/Sao_Paulo
Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
Montevideo America/Montevideo
Georgetown America/Guyana
Puerto Rico America/Puerto_Rico
Greenland America/Godthab
Mid-Atlantic Atlantic/South_Georgia
Azores Atlantic/Azores
Cape Verde Is. Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Dublin Europe/Dublin
Edinburgh Europe/London
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon
London Europe/London
Casablanca Africa/Casablanca
Monrovia Africa/Monrovia
UTC Etc/UTC
Belgrade Europe/Belgrade
Bratislava Europe/Bratislava
Budapest Europe/Budapest
Ljubljana Europe/Ljubljana
Prague Europe/Prague
Sarajevo Europe/Sarajevo
Skopje Europe/Skopje
Warsaw Europe/Warsaw
Zagreb Europe/Zagreb
Brussels Europe/Brussels
Copenhagen Europe/Copenhagen
Madrid Europe/Madrid
Paris Europe/Paris
Amsterdam Europe/Amsterdam
Berlin Europe/Berlin
Bern Europe/Zurich
Zurich Europe/Zurich
Rome Europe/Rome
Stockholm Europe/Stockholm
Vienna Europe/Vienna
West Central Africa Africa/Algiers
Bucharest Europe/Bucharest
Cairo Africa/Cairo
Helsinki Europe/Helsinki
Kyiv Europe/Kiev
Riga Europe/Riga
Sofia Europe/Sofia
Tallinn Europe/Tallinn
Vilnius Europe/Vilnius
Athens Europe/Athens
Istanbul Europe/Istanbul
Minsk Europe/Minsk
Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem
Harare Africa/Harare
Pretoria Africa/Johannesburg
Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad
Moscow Europe/Moscow
St. Petersburg Europe/Moscow
Volgograd Europe/Volgograd
Samara Europe/Samara
Kuwait Asia/Kuwait
Riyadh Asia/Riyadh
Nairobi Africa/Nairobi
Baghdad Asia/Baghdad
Tehran Asia/Tehran
Abu Dhabi Asia/Muscat
Muscat Asia/Muscat
Baku Asia/Baku
Tbilisi Asia/Tbilisi
Yerevan Asia/Yerevan
Kabul Asia/Kabul
Ekaterinburg Asia/Yekaterinburg
Islamabad Asia/Karachi
Karachi Asia/Karachi
Tashkent Asia/Tashkent
Chennai Asia/Kolkata
Kolkata Asia/Kolkata
Mumbai Asia/Kolkata
New Delhi Asia/Kolkata
Kathmandu Asia/Kathmandu
Astana Asia/Dhaka
Dhaka Asia/Dhaka
Sri Jayawardenepura Asia/Colombo
Almaty Asia/Almaty
Novosibirsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Rangoon Asia/Rangoon
Bangkok Asia/Bangkok
Hanoi Asia/Bangkok
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta
Krasnoyarsk Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Beijing Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Asia/Chongqing
Hong Kong Asia/Hong_Kong
Urumqi Asia/Urumqi
Kuala Lumpur Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Singapore Asia/Singapore
Taipei Asia/Taipei
Perth Australia/Perth
Irkutsk Asia/Irkutsk
Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Seoul Asia/Seoul
Osaka Asia/Tokyo
Sapporo Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
Yakutsk Asia/Yakutsk
Darwin Australia/Darwin
Adelaide Australia/Adelaide
Canberra Australia/Melbourne
Melbourne Australia/Melbourne
Sydney Australia/Sydney
Brisbane Australia/Brisbane
Hobart Australia/Hobart
Vladivostok Asia/Vladivostok
Guam Pacific/Guam
Port Moresby Pacific/Port_Moresby
Magadan Asia/Magadan
Srednekolymsk Asia/Srednekolymsk
Solomon Is. Pacific/Guadalcanal
New Caledonia Pacific/Noumea
Fiji Pacific/Fiji
Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka
Marshall Is. Pacific/Majuro
Auckland Pacific/Auckland
Wellington Pacific/Auckland
Nuku'alofa Pacific/Tongatapu
Tokelau Is. Pacific/Fakaofo
Chatham Is. Pacific/Chatham
Samoa Pacific/Apia

Default: Etc/UTC

Example: America/New_York

countdown
boolean

Enables or disables a countdown timer.

logo_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG logo file that appears partially transparent in a corner of the player throughout playback. Logo file must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

logo_position
string

The corner of the player in which you want the player logo to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
video_poster_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG poster image that appears in the player before the stream begins. Poster image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of a fixed-size player. The default is 640.

recording
boolean

If true, creates a recording of the live stream. The recording starts when the live stream starts and stops automatically when the live stream stops.

Recordings created from a live stream capture up to eight hours of content. If a live stream runs for longer than eight hours, the most recent eight hours are recorded. To record more than eight hours of a single broadcast, stop the live stream and start it again to create multiple recordings.

Default: false.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true recording value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

reference_id
string

A unique, alphanumeric ID returned in transcoder webhook payloads. Setting a reference_id is useful if you have an ID in your system or application you want to associate with transcoder events that trigger webhooks. Maximum 70 characters. Can only contain: a-z A-Z 0-9 !@#$%^&*()-_+=:;,.?~|

You can't use brackets or quotation marks.

See Wowza Video Webhook Event Reference Documentation to learn about webhooks.

Available from version 1.7.

save_asset
boolean

If true, saves an MP4 recording and a VOD asset in Asset Management. The default is false. You can't set save_asset for a live stream created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management.

Note: If this value is true, recording and/or vod_stream are set to false. You need a Wowza Video subscription to access Asset Management.

Available from version 1.8.

object

Configuration of stream security. These settings only apply to Wowza CDN on Fastly stream targets, not Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, or custom targets.

source_connection_information
object

Details that you can use to manually configure and connect a video source to the live stream.

state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "starting" "stopping" "started" "stopped" "resetting"
stream_source_id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the stream source, if a stream source is used.

Array of objects (stream_targets)

An array of unique alphanumeric strings that identify the stream targets used by the live stream.

target_delivery_protocol
string

The type of stream being delivered from Wowza Video. The default and only valid value is hls-https.

Value: "hls-https"
transcoder_type
string

The type of transcoder, either transcoded for streams that are transcoded into adaptive bitrate renditions or passthrough for streams that aren't processed by the transcoder.

Note: passthrough isn't supported in the asia_pacific_singapore region.

Default: transcoded.

Enum: "transcoded" "passthrough"
updated_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was updated.

use_stream_source
boolean

If true, uses a stream source to deliver the stream to Wowza Video. The default, false, pushes directly to Wowza Video.

vod_stream
boolean

If true, creates a VOD stream after the live stream ends. The default is false. VOD streams require a Fastly stream target with HLS as a delivery protocol.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true vod_stream value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

watermark
boolean

Embeds an image into the transcoded stream for copyright protection. Specify true to embed a watermark image.

watermark_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image height.

watermark_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that is embedded in all bitrate renditions of the stream. Watermark image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

watermark_opacity
integer <int32>

The opacity, or percentage of transparency, of the watermark. 0 is fully transparent; 100 is fully opaque.

Enum: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
watermark_position
string

The corner of the video frame in which you want the watermark to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
watermark_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image width.

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

get/live_streams/{id}
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "GET" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Update a live stream

This operation updates a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Request Body schema: application/json
required

Provide the details of the live stream to update in the body of the request.

required
object (live_stream)
aspect_ratio_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_width, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 720.

Example: "aspect_ratio_height": 720

aspect_ratio_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_height, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 1280.

Example: "aspect_ratio_width": 1280

encoder
string

The video source for the live stream. Choose the type of camera or encoder you're using to connect to the Wowza Video transcoder. If your specific device isn't listed, choose ipcamera, other_rtmp, or other_rtsp.

Example: "encoder": "other_rtmp"

Enum: "wowza_clearcaster" "wowza_gocoder" "wowza_streaming_engine" "media_ds" "axis" "epiphan" "file" "hauppauge" "jvc" "live_u" "matrox" "newtek_tricaster" "osprey" "sony" "telestream_wirecast" "teradek_cube" "vmix" "x_split" "ipcamera" "other_rtmp" "other_rtsp" "other_webrtc" "other_udp" "other_srt"
name
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

Example: "name": "My Updated Live Stream"

closed_caption_type
string

The type of closed caption data being passed from the source. The default, none, indicates that no data is being provided. cea indicates that a CEA closed captioning data stream is being provided. on_text indicates that an onTextData closed captioning data stream is being provided. both indicates that both CEA and onTextData closed captioning data streams are being provided.

Example: "closed_caption_type": "cea"

Enum: "none" "cea" "on_text" "both"
delivery_method
string

The type of connection between the video source and the transcoder. The default, push, instructs the source to push the stream to the transcoder. pull instructs the transcoder to pull the video from the source. cdn uses a stream source to deliver the stream to the transcoder.

Example: "delivery_method": "pull"

Enum: "pull" "cdn" "push"
delivery_protocols
Array of strings

An array of direct delivery protocols enabled for this live stream. By default, rtmp, rtsp, webrtc, and wowz are enabled.

Example: See response body sample

description
string

An optional description of the live stream.

disable_authentication
boolean

Authentication is required by default for RTMP and RTSP push connections from a video source to Wowza Video. Specify true to disable authentication with the video source.

Example: "disable_authentication": false

object (hosted_page_request_object)

Configuration of the hosted page.

password
string

A password for authenticating an RTMP or RTSP push connection. Can contain only uppercase and lowercase letters; numbers; and the period (.), underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters. No other special characters can be used.

Example: "password": 68332313

object (player_request_object)

The player object is deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface.

Any values you send using the player object will be ignored.

The following fields have been moved outside of the player object and reside within the live_stream object where you can still access them through the API:

  • logo_image
  • logo_position
  • video_poster_image
  • width
  • remove_video_poster_image
  • remove_logo_image
player_id
string

(Available from version 2.0) The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the player configuration to use for this stream.

When you pass a player configuration ID, Wowza Video uses that player configuration to customize and style the player. If you don't pass a value, the default player configuration for the account is used.

Create and edit player configurations in the user interface. The ID is on the General tab for the player configuration.

Default: Default player configuration

Example: 2205b4e8-b160-43c2-868d-d88698a4e850

logo_image
string

A Base64-encoded string representation of a GIF, JPEG, or PNG logo file that appears partially transparent in a corner of the player throughout playback. Logo file must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "logo_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

logo_position
string

The corner of the player in which you want the player logo to appear. The default is top-left.

Example: "logo_position": "top-right"

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
video_poster_image
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG poster image that appears in the player before the stream begins. Poster image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "video_poster_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of a fixed-size player. The default is 640.

Example: "width": 640

remove_logo_image
boolean

If true, removes the logo file from the player. The default is false.

Example: "remove_logo_image": true

remove_video_poster_image
boolean

If true, removes the poster image. The default is false.

Example: "remove_video_poster_image": true

recording
boolean

If true, creates a recording of the live stream. The recording starts when the live stream starts and stops automatically when the live stream stops.

Recordings created from a live stream capture up to eight hours of content. If a live stream runs for longer than eight hours, the most recent eight hours are recorded. To record more than eight hours of a single broadcast, stop the live stream and start it again to create multiple recordings.

Default: false

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true recording value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

Example: "recording": true

reference_id
string

A unique, alphanumeric ID returned in transcoder webhook payloads. Setting a reference_id is useful if you have an ID in your system or application you want to associate with transcoder events that trigger webhooks. Maximum 70 characters. Can only contain: a-z A-Z 0-9 !@#$%^&*()-_+=:;,.?~|

You can't use brackets or quotation marks.

See Wowza Video Webhook Event Reference Documentation to learn about webhooks.

Available from version 1.7.

Example: "reference_id": "mySystemID_01"

save_asset
boolean

If true, saves an MP4 recording and a VOD asset in Asset Management. The default is false. You can't set save_asset for a live stream created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management

Note: If this value is true, recording and/or vod_stream are set to false. You need a Wowza Video subscription to access Asset Management.

Available from version 1.8.

Example: "save_asset": true

object

Configuration of stream security. These settings only apply to Wowza CDN on Fastly stream targets, not Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, or custom targets.

source_url
string

For the delivery_method pull or encoder file.

For pull, enter the URL of an IP camera or video encoder using an RTMP and RTSP pull connection to Wowza Video. Consult the camera or encoder documentation for the URL syntax.

For file, enter the source file URL, including the protocol (http, https, gs, s3).

Example: "source_url": "xyz.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:Movie.mov"

target_delivery_protocol
string

The type of stream being delivered from Wowza Video. The default and only valid value is hls-https.

Example: "target_delivery_protocol": "hls-https"

Value: "hls-https"
use_stream_source
boolean

If true, uses a stream source to deliver the stream to Wowza Video. The default, false, pushes directly to Wowza Video.

Example: "use_stream_source": false

username
string

A user name for authenticating an RTMP or RTSP push connection. Can contain only uppercase and lowercase letters; numbers; and the period (.), underscore (_), and hyphen (-) characters. No other special characters can be used.

Example: "username": "client2"

vod_stream
boolean

If true, creates a VOD stream after the live stream ends. The default is false.VOD streams require a Fastly stream target with HLS as a delivery protocol.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true vod_stream value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

Example: "vod_stream": true

watermark
boolean

Embeds an image into the transcoded stream for copyright protection. Specify true to embed a watermark image.

Example: "watermark": true

watermark_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image height.

Example: "watermark_height": 80

watermark_image
string

A Base64-encoded string representation of a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that is embedded in all bitrate renditions of the stream. Watermark image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

Example: "watermark_image": "[Base64-encoded string representation of GIF, JPEG, or PNG file]"

watermark_opacity
integer <int32>

The opacity, or percentage of transparency, of the watermark. 0 is fully transparent; 100 is fully opaque.

Example: "watermark_opacity": 75

Enum: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
watermark_position
string

The corner of the video frame in which you want the watermark to appear. The default is top-left.

Example: "watermark_position": "top-left"

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
watermark_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image width.

Example: "watermark_width": 100

countdown
boolean

Enables or disables a countdown timer.

countdown_at
string <date-time>

The month, day, year, and time of day that the countdown timer should stop displaying to the viewer. Specify YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

For example, if you set the countdown_at for 2024-12-15T17:00:00:000Z and the countdown_timezone as America/New_York, the viewer would see their current time minus the time remaining until the date and time you set. So, if there's 5 hours to go until 1700 NYC time for the viewer, the viewer sees 5:00:00 on the player indicating there are 5 hours left, then the timer counts down from there. The countdown starts as soon as the streamer configures it.

Required when countdown is true.

Example: "countdown_at": "2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"

countdown_timezone
string

The time zone the countdown timer runs in.

Required when countdown is true.

Click to expand for the full list of valid values
Locations Wowza Video time_zone value
International Date Line West Etc/GMT+12
Midway Island Pacific/Midway
American Samoa Pacific/Pago_Pago
Hawaii Pacific/Honolulu
Alaska America/Juneau
Pacific Time (US & Canada) America/Los_Angeles
Tijuana America/Tijuana
Mountain Time (US & Canada) America/Denver
Arizona America/Phoenix
Chihuahua America/Chihuahua
Mazatlan America/Mazatlan
Central Time (US & Canada) America/Chicago
Saskatchewan America/Regina
Guadalajara America/Mexico_City
Mexico City America/Mexico_City
Monterrey America/Monterrey
Central America America/Guatemala
Eastern Time (US & Canada) America/New_York
Indiana (East) America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Bogota America/Bogota
Lima America/Lima
Quito America/Lima
Atlantic Time (Canada) America/Halifax
Caracas America/Caracas
La Paz America/La_Paz
Santiago America/Santiago
Newfoundland America/St_Johns
Brasilia America/Sao_Paulo
Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
Montevideo America/Montevideo
Georgetown America/Guyana
Puerto Rico America/Puerto_Rico
Greenland America/Godthab
Mid-Atlantic Atlantic/South_Georgia
Azores Atlantic/Azores
Cape Verde Is. Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Dublin Europe/Dublin
Edinburgh Europe/London
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon
London Europe/London
Casablanca Africa/Casablanca
Monrovia Africa/Monrovia
UTC Etc/UTC
Belgrade Europe/Belgrade
Bratislava Europe/Bratislava
Budapest Europe/Budapest
Ljubljana Europe/Ljubljana
Prague Europe/Prague
Sarajevo Europe/Sarajevo
Skopje Europe/Skopje
Warsaw Europe/Warsaw
Zagreb Europe/Zagreb
Brussels Europe/Brussels
Copenhagen Europe/Copenhagen
Madrid Europe/Madrid
Paris Europe/Paris
Amsterdam Europe/Amsterdam
Berlin Europe/Berlin
Bern Europe/Zurich
Zurich Europe/Zurich
Rome Europe/Rome
Stockholm Europe/Stockholm
Vienna Europe/Vienna
West Central Africa Africa/Algiers
Bucharest Europe/Bucharest
Cairo Africa/Cairo
Helsinki Europe/Helsinki
Kyiv Europe/Kiev
Riga Europe/Riga
Sofia Europe/Sofia
Tallinn Europe/Tallinn
Vilnius Europe/Vilnius
Athens Europe/Athens
Istanbul Europe/Istanbul
Minsk Europe/Minsk
Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem
Harare Africa/Harare
Pretoria Africa/Johannesburg
Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad
Moscow Europe/Moscow
St. Petersburg Europe/Moscow
Volgograd Europe/Volgograd
Samara Europe/Samara
Kuwait Asia/Kuwait
Riyadh Asia/Riyadh
Nairobi Africa/Nairobi
Baghdad Asia/Baghdad
Tehran Asia/Tehran
Abu Dhabi Asia/Muscat
Muscat Asia/Muscat
Baku Asia/Baku
Tbilisi Asia/Tbilisi
Yerevan Asia/Yerevan
Kabul Asia/Kabul
Ekaterinburg Asia/Yekaterinburg
Islamabad Asia/Karachi
Karachi Asia/Karachi
Tashkent Asia/Tashkent
Chennai Asia/Kolkata
Kolkata Asia/Kolkata
Mumbai Asia/Kolkata
New Delhi Asia/Kolkata
Kathmandu Asia/Kathmandu
Astana Asia/Dhaka
Dhaka Asia/Dhaka
Sri Jayawardenepura Asia/Colombo
Almaty Asia/Almaty
Novosibirsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Rangoon Asia/Rangoon
Bangkok Asia/Bangkok
Hanoi Asia/Bangkok
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta
Krasnoyarsk Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Beijing Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Asia/Chongqing
Hong Kong Asia/Hong_Kong
Urumqi Asia/Urumqi
Kuala Lumpur Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Singapore Asia/Singapore
Taipei Asia/Taipei
Perth Australia/Perth
Irkutsk Asia/Irkutsk
Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Seoul Asia/Seoul
Osaka Asia/Tokyo
Sapporo Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
Yakutsk Asia/Yakutsk
Darwin Australia/Darwin
Adelaide Australia/Adelaide
Canberra Australia/Melbourne
Melbourne Australia/Melbourne
Sydney Australia/Sydney
Brisbane Australia/Brisbane
Hobart Australia/Hobart
Vladivostok Asia/Vladivostok
Guam Pacific/Guam
Port Moresby Pacific/Port_Moresby
Magadan Asia/Magadan
Srednekolymsk Asia/Srednekolymsk
Solomon Is. Pacific/Guadalcanal
New Caledonia Pacific/Noumea
Fiji Pacific/Fiji
Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka
Marshall Is. Pacific/Majuro
Auckland Pacific/Auckland
Wellington Pacific/Auckland
Nuku'alofa Pacific/Tongatapu
Tokelau Is. Pacific/Fakaofo
Chatham Is. Pacific/Chatham
Samoa Pacific/Apia

Default: Etc/UTC

Example: America/New_York

Responses
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Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
aspect_ratio_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_width, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 720.

aspect_ratio_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the video source. Should correspond to a widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) aspect ratio and be divisible by 8. Combined with aspect_ratio_height, makes up the input resolution.

Default: 1280.

asset_id
string

Only applies to live streams created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management. The id for the asset associated with the re-streamed live stream. You can manage this asset in Asset Management.

billing_mode
string

The billing mode for the stream.

Default: pay_as_you_go.

pay_as_you_go — Billed as a single event. A single event is use-based and you incur charges for the time spent streaming.

twentyfour_seven — Billed as a 24x7 channel. A 24x7 channel is unlimited stream time for one channel. This billing mode doesn't incur overages, since it's unlimited.

Enum: "pay_as_you_go" "twentyfour_seven"
broadcast_location
string (broadcast_location)

The location of your stream. Choose a location as close as possible to your video source.

Enum: "asia_pacific_australia" "asia_pacific_india" "asia_pacific_japan" "asia_pacific_singapore" "asia_pacific_s_korea" "asia_pacific_taiwan" "eu_belgium" "eu_germany" "eu_ireland" "south_america_brazil" "us_central_iowa" "us_east_s_carolina" "us_east_virginia" "us_west_california" "us_west_oregon"
closed_caption_type
string

The type of closed caption data being passed from the source. The default, none, indicates that no data is being provided. cea indicates that a CEA closed captioning data stream is being provided. on_text indicates that an onTextData closed captioning data stream is being provided. both indicates that both CEA and onTextData closed captioning data streams are being provided.

Enum: "none" "cea" "on_text" "both"
connection_code
string

A six-character, alphanumeric string that allows certain encoders, including Wowza Streaming Engine and the Wowza GoCoder app, to connect with Wowza Video. The code can be used once and expires 24 hours after it's created.

connection_code_expires_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the connection_code expires.

created_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was created.

delivery_method
string

The type of connection between the video source and the transcoder. The default, push, instructs the source to push the stream to the transcoder. pull instructs the transcoder to pull the video from the source. cdn uses a stream source to deliver the stream to the transcoder.

Enum: "pull" "cdn" "push"
delivery_protocols
Array of strings

An array of direct delivery protocols enabled for this live stream. By default, rtmp, rtsp, webrtc, and wowz are enabled.

description
string

An optional description of the live stream.

object

A list of direct playback URLs for the live stream's delivery protocols. Each protocol has a URL for the source and a URL for each output rendition.

encoder
string

The video source for the live stream. Choose the type of camera or encoder you're using to connect to the Wowza Video transcoder. If your specific device isn't listed, choose ipcamera, other_rtmp, or other_rtsp.

Enum: "wowza_clearcaster" "wowza_gocoder" "wowza_streaming_engine" "media_ds" "axis" "epiphan" "file" "hauppauge" "jvc" "live_u" "matrox" "newtek_tricaster" "osprey" "sony" "telestream_wirecast" "teradek_cube" "vmix" "x_split" "ipcamera" "other_rtmp" "other_rtsp" "other_webrtc" "other_udp" "other_srt"
flowplayer
boolean

Indicates whether or not the player for the live stream is a Wowza Flowplayer player. True indicates the player is a Wowza Flowplayer player. Our new Wowza Video experience uses Wowza Flowplayer. If you are a Wowza Video legacy subscriber, Wowza Flowplayer is also the player used.

False indicates the player is either an original_html5 player or wowza_player. The original HTML and Wowza players are the players available for Wowza Streaming Cloud subscribers.

object (hosted_page_response_object)

Configuration of the hosted page.

id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

low_latency
boolean

For streams whose target_delivery_protocol is hls-https. If true, turns off incoming and sort packet buffers and delivers smaller video packets to the player, which can reduce latency as long as networks can handle the increased overhead. The default is false.

name
string

A descriptive name for the live stream. Maximum 200 characters.

playback_stream_name
string

The stream name used in the direct playback URL.

object (player_response_object)

The player object is deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface.

Any values you send using the player object will be ignored.

The following fields have been moved outside of the player object and reside within the live_stream object where you can still access them through the API:

  • embed_code
  • hls_playback_url
  • logo_image_url
  • logo_position
  • video_poster_image_url
  • width
player_id
string

(Available from version 2.0) The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the player configuration to use for this stream.

When you pass a player configuration ID, Wowza Video uses that player configuration to customize and style the player. If you don't pass a value, the default player configuration for the account is used.

Create and edit player configurations in the user interface. The ID is on the General tab for the player configuration.

Default: Default player configuration

Note: player_id is not returned in the response if it's not explicitly sent and the default player configuration is used instead.

Example: 2205b4e8-b160-43c2-868d-d88698a4e850

player_type
string

(Available from version 2.0) The type of player associated with the stream. Streams created in legacy Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v1. Streams created in later versions of Wowza Video have a player type of wowza_flowplayer_v2.

Knowing the player type is useful if you've migrated streams from legacy Wowza Video. The player for a stream created in the legacy version of Wowza Video isn't editable in the new platform.

Example: wowza_flowplayer_v1

Enum: "wowza_flowplayer_v1" "wowza_flowplayer_v2"
embed_code
string

The HTML code that can be used in an external webpage to host the Wowza Flowplayer.

hls_playback_url
string

The address that can be used to configure playback of the stream using the HLS protocol.

countdown_at
string <date-time>

The month, day, year, and time of day that the countdown timer should stop displaying to the viewer. Specify YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. The response is in UTC time.

For example, if you set the countdown_at for 2024-12-15T17:00:00:000Z and the countdown_timezone as America/New_York, the viewer would see their current time minus the time remaining until the date and time you set. So, if there's 5 hours to go until 1700 NYC time for the viewer, the viewer sees 5:00:00 on the player indicating their's 5 hours left and the timer counts down from there. The countdown starts as soon as the streamer configures it.

Required when countdown is true.

Example: "countdown_at": "2024-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"

countdown_timezone
string

The time zone the countdown timer runs in.

Required when countdown is true.

Click to expand for the full list of valid values
Locations Wowza Video time_zone value
International Date Line West Etc/GMT+12
Midway Island Pacific/Midway
American Samoa Pacific/Pago_Pago
Hawaii Pacific/Honolulu
Alaska America/Juneau
Pacific Time (US & Canada) America/Los_Angeles
Tijuana America/Tijuana
Mountain Time (US & Canada) America/Denver
Arizona America/Phoenix
Chihuahua America/Chihuahua
Mazatlan America/Mazatlan
Central Time (US & Canada) America/Chicago
Saskatchewan America/Regina
Guadalajara America/Mexico_City
Mexico City America/Mexico_City
Monterrey America/Monterrey
Central America America/Guatemala
Eastern Time (US & Canada) America/New_York
Indiana (East) America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Bogota America/Bogota
Lima America/Lima
Quito America/Lima
Atlantic Time (Canada) America/Halifax
Caracas America/Caracas
La Paz America/La_Paz
Santiago America/Santiago
Newfoundland America/St_Johns
Brasilia America/Sao_Paulo
Buenos Aires America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
Montevideo America/Montevideo
Georgetown America/Guyana
Puerto Rico America/Puerto_Rico
Greenland America/Godthab
Mid-Atlantic Atlantic/South_Georgia
Azores Atlantic/Azores
Cape Verde Is. Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Dublin Europe/Dublin
Edinburgh Europe/London
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon
London Europe/London
Casablanca Africa/Casablanca
Monrovia Africa/Monrovia
UTC Etc/UTC
Belgrade Europe/Belgrade
Bratislava Europe/Bratislava
Budapest Europe/Budapest
Ljubljana Europe/Ljubljana
Prague Europe/Prague
Sarajevo Europe/Sarajevo
Skopje Europe/Skopje
Warsaw Europe/Warsaw
Zagreb Europe/Zagreb
Brussels Europe/Brussels
Copenhagen Europe/Copenhagen
Madrid Europe/Madrid
Paris Europe/Paris
Amsterdam Europe/Amsterdam
Berlin Europe/Berlin
Bern Europe/Zurich
Zurich Europe/Zurich
Rome Europe/Rome
Stockholm Europe/Stockholm
Vienna Europe/Vienna
West Central Africa Africa/Algiers
Bucharest Europe/Bucharest
Cairo Africa/Cairo
Helsinki Europe/Helsinki
Kyiv Europe/Kiev
Riga Europe/Riga
Sofia Europe/Sofia
Tallinn Europe/Tallinn
Vilnius Europe/Vilnius
Athens Europe/Athens
Istanbul Europe/Istanbul
Minsk Europe/Minsk
Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem
Harare Africa/Harare
Pretoria Africa/Johannesburg
Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad
Moscow Europe/Moscow
St. Petersburg Europe/Moscow
Volgograd Europe/Volgograd
Samara Europe/Samara
Kuwait Asia/Kuwait
Riyadh Asia/Riyadh
Nairobi Africa/Nairobi
Baghdad Asia/Baghdad
Tehran Asia/Tehran
Abu Dhabi Asia/Muscat
Muscat Asia/Muscat
Baku Asia/Baku
Tbilisi Asia/Tbilisi
Yerevan Asia/Yerevan
Kabul Asia/Kabul
Ekaterinburg Asia/Yekaterinburg
Islamabad Asia/Karachi
Karachi Asia/Karachi
Tashkent Asia/Tashkent
Chennai Asia/Kolkata
Kolkata Asia/Kolkata
Mumbai Asia/Kolkata
New Delhi Asia/Kolkata
Kathmandu Asia/Kathmandu
Astana Asia/Dhaka
Dhaka Asia/Dhaka
Sri Jayawardenepura Asia/Colombo
Almaty Asia/Almaty
Novosibirsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Rangoon Asia/Rangoon
Bangkok Asia/Bangkok
Hanoi Asia/Bangkok
Jakarta Asia/Jakarta
Krasnoyarsk Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Beijing Asia/Shanghai
Chongqing Asia/Chongqing
Hong Kong Asia/Hong_Kong
Urumqi Asia/Urumqi
Kuala Lumpur Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Singapore Asia/Singapore
Taipei Asia/Taipei
Perth Australia/Perth
Irkutsk Asia/Irkutsk
Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Seoul Asia/Seoul
Osaka Asia/Tokyo
Sapporo Asia/Tokyo
Tokyo Asia/Tokyo
Yakutsk Asia/Yakutsk
Darwin Australia/Darwin
Adelaide Australia/Adelaide
Canberra Australia/Melbourne
Melbourne Australia/Melbourne
Sydney Australia/Sydney
Brisbane Australia/Brisbane
Hobart Australia/Hobart
Vladivostok Asia/Vladivostok
Guam Pacific/Guam
Port Moresby Pacific/Port_Moresby
Magadan Asia/Magadan
Srednekolymsk Asia/Srednekolymsk
Solomon Is. Pacific/Guadalcanal
New Caledonia Pacific/Noumea
Fiji Pacific/Fiji
Kamchatka Asia/Kamchatka
Marshall Is. Pacific/Majuro
Auckland Pacific/Auckland
Wellington Pacific/Auckland
Nuku'alofa Pacific/Tongatapu
Tokelau Is. Pacific/Fakaofo
Chatham Is. Pacific/Chatham
Samoa Pacific/Apia

Default: Etc/UTC

Example: America/New_York

countdown
boolean

Enables or disables a countdown timer.

logo_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG logo file that appears partially transparent in a corner of the player throughout playback. Logo file must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

logo_position
string

The corner of the player in which you want the player logo to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
video_poster_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG poster image that appears in the player before the stream begins. Poster image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of a fixed-size player. The default is 640.

recording
boolean

If true, creates a recording of the live stream. The recording starts when the live stream starts and stops automatically when the live stream stops.

Recordings created from a live stream capture up to eight hours of content. If a live stream runs for longer than eight hours, the most recent eight hours are recorded. To record more than eight hours of a single broadcast, stop the live stream and start it again to create multiple recordings.

Default: false.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true recording value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

reference_id
string

A unique, alphanumeric ID returned in transcoder webhook payloads. Setting a reference_id is useful if you have an ID in your system or application you want to associate with transcoder events that trigger webhooks. Maximum 70 characters. Can only contain: a-z A-Z 0-9 !@#$%^&*()-_+=:;,.?~|

You can't use brackets or quotation marks.

See Wowza Video Webhook Event Reference Documentation to learn about webhooks.

Available from version 1.7.

save_asset
boolean

If true, saves an MP4 recording and a VOD asset in Asset Management. The default is false. You can't set save_asset for a live stream created from re-streaming an asset in Asset Management.

Note: If this value is true, recording and/or vod_stream are set to false. You need a Wowza Video subscription to access Asset Management.

Available from version 1.8.

object

Configuration of stream security. These settings only apply to Wowza CDN on Fastly stream targets, not Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, or custom targets.

source_connection_information
object

Details that you can use to manually configure and connect a video source to the live stream.

state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "starting" "stopping" "started" "stopped" "resetting"
stream_source_id
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the stream source, if a stream source is used.

Array of objects (stream_targets)

An array of unique alphanumeric strings that identify the stream targets used by the live stream.

target_delivery_protocol
string

The type of stream being delivered from Wowza Video. The default and only valid value is hls-https.

Value: "hls-https"
transcoder_type
string

The type of transcoder, either transcoded for streams that are transcoded into adaptive bitrate renditions or passthrough for streams that aren't processed by the transcoder.

Note: passthrough isn't supported in the asia_pacific_singapore region.

Default: transcoded.

Enum: "transcoded" "passthrough"
updated_at
string <date-time>

The date and time that the live stream was updated.

use_stream_source
boolean

If true, uses a stream source to deliver the stream to Wowza Video. The default, false, pushes directly to Wowza Video.

vod_stream
boolean

If true, creates a VOD stream after the live stream ends. The default is false. VOD streams require a Fastly stream target with HLS as a delivery protocol.

Note: If save_asset is true, that field overrides a true vod_stream value and the asset is saved in Asset Management.

watermark
boolean

Embeds an image into the transcoded stream for copyright protection. Specify true to embed a watermark image.

watermark_height
integer <int32>

The height, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image height.

watermark_image_url
string

The path to a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image that is embedded in all bitrate renditions of the stream. Watermark image files must be 2.5 MB or smaller.

watermark_opacity
integer <int32>

The opacity, or percentage of transparency, of the watermark. 0 is fully transparent; 100 is fully opaque.

Enum: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
watermark_position
string

The corner of the video frame in which you want the watermark to appear. The default is top-left.

Enum: "top-left" "top-right" "bottom-left" "bottom-right"
watermark_width
integer <int32>

The width, in pixels, of the watermark image. If blank, Wowza Video uses the original image width.

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

patch/live_streams/{id}
Request samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Delete a live stream

This operation deletes a live stream, including all assigned outputs and targets.

Note: You can't remove live streams that have an asset_id. Assets must be removed by sending a DEL request to the /assets endpoint.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
204

No Content

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

delete/live_streams/{id}
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "DELETE" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "Example Response 1": {
    },
  • "Example Response 2": {
    },
  • "Example Response 3": {
    },
  • "Example Response 4": {
    },
  • "Example Response 5": {
    },
  • "Example Response 6": {
    },
  • "Example Response 7": {
    },
  • "Example Response 8": {
    },
  • "Example Response 9": {
    }
}

Start a live stream

This operation starts a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "started" "stopped" "starting" "stopping" "resetting"
401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

put/live_streams/{id}/start
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "PUT" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/start"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Stop a live stream

This operation stops a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "started" "stopped" "starting" "stopping" "resetting"
401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

put/live_streams/{id}/stop
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "PUT" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/stop"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Reset a live stream

This operation resets a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "started" "stopped" "starting" "stopping" "resetting"
401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

put/live_streams/{id}/reset
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "PUT" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/reset"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Regenerate the connection code for a live stream

This operation regenerates the connection code of a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
connection_code
string

A six-character, alphanumeric string that allows certain encoders, including Wowza Streaming Engine and the Wowza GoCoder app, to connect with Wowza Video. The code can be used once and expires 24 hours after it's created.

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

422

Unprocessable Entity

put/live_streams/{id}/regenerate_connection_code
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "PUT" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/regenerate_connection_code"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}

Fetch the thumbnail URL of a live stream

This operation shows the thumbnail URL of a started live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
thumbnail_url
string

The URL to receive the preview thumbnail.

401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

get/live_streams/{id}/thumbnail_url
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "GET" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/thumbnail_url"
Response samples
application/json
{}

Fetch the state of a live stream

This operation shows the current state of a live stream.

Request
path Parameters
id
required
string

The unique alphanumeric string that identifies the live stream.

Responses
200

Success

Response Schema: application/json
required
object (live_stream)
ip_address
string

The IP address of the live stream instance. If the live stream state is anything other than started, the ip_address is 0.0.0.0.

state
string

The state of the live stream.

Enum: "started" "stopped" "starting" "stopping" "resetting"
401

Unauthorized

403

Forbidden

404

Not Found

410

Gone

get/live_streams/{id}/state
Request samples 
// Using cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${WV_JWT}" \
  
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X "GET" \
  "${WV_HOST}/api/v2.0/live_streams/2adffc17/state"
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "live_stream": {
    }
}
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