With Wowza ClearCaster in Universal mode, you can broadcast to a wide variety of destinations including the Wowza Streaming Cloud service; a Wowza Streaming Engine instance; video-sharing websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter; and other RTMP-based destinations.
Flowics graphics can be integrated with Wowza ClearCaster in Universal mode. Here you will find the step by step guide of this integration.
A. Universal Manager
- Go to https://universal.clearcaster.wowza.com/
- From the drop down click on Universal Manager
B. Create Broadcast
1. Click on Broadcast in the menu bar
2. Click Create Broadcast
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In the Create Broadcast dialog, enter the following settings:
- Broadcast Name - Enter a name for the broadcast.
- ClearCaster - Select the ClearCaster appliance registered to your Wowza account and in universal mode that you want to use for the broadcast.
- Destination - Select the destination to which you want to publish your broadcast.
- Encoding Template - Select one of the encoding templates that are pre-tuned specifically for your destination or special broadcast configuration.
- Server URL - Enter the protocol followed by the URL for your destination. For example, rtmp://mycompany.com/live/stream.
- Enter Server Authentication - If your destination requires source authentication, such as Wowza Streaming Engine by default, enter the user name and password.
- Stream Name/Key - Enter the name of the stream or the stream key value if needed by your destination.
- Record Broadcast - Check this box if you want to record this broadcast each time it goes live.
- Enable Engineering View - Check this box if you want to use the engineering view on your external monitor attached to the ClearCaster appliance to monitor the broadcast.
Note: If you don't see a destination or encoding template that meets your needs, contact Wowza Support to request a custom destination with custom encoding templates.
C. Output - Custom graphics
- In the Graphics field from the dialog box we saw in point B, choose custom.
- Then grab the Flowics output URL and paste it.
- Finally click on create Broadcast
D. Go Live
After you have created your broadcast click on go Live
