Release test for Wowza Streaming Server plugin for Kulturarvsportalen
Context
The Wowza plugin has the following areas of responsibilities:
Authentification - Validate that a user is allowed to get a file streamed.
Locating streaming files - Locate the folders where the streaming files reside.
Start live streaming processes - Start a VLC process that streams video to a port, that Wowza forwards to a user.
Log usage statistics - Not yet implemented.
These are done in three different settings:
rtmp://<server:port>/kultur - Streaming of a tv program with user authentification.
rtmp://<server:port>/kultur_live - Live streaming of a tv program that is being transcodea with user authentification.
rtmp://<server:port>/kultur_preview - Streaming of a preview video of a tv program.
Prerequisites
In order to execute this test, the following prerequisites must be met:
Address of Ticket Issuer, ie. http://alhena:7880/authchecker-service/tickets
Address of streaming server, ie. rtmp://iapetus:1935
- Source code of Wowza Streaming Server plugin checked out
- Path to Wowza streaming server jar library
- IP-address of client machine
- Shard URL of streaming file.
How to issue tickets
Edit the file <wowza-plugin-src-code>/scripts/getTicket.sh and insert the information needed. Ie.
#Location of Wowza's jar files on local machine WOWZA_LIB=../build-libs/wowza/jars/* TICKET_SERVER=http://alhena:7880/authchecker-service/tickets #IP-address of client machine: USERNAME=172.18.224.234 RESOURCE=http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/doms/shard/uuid:a0639529-124a-453f-b4ea-59f833b47333 ORGANIZATION_ID=au.dk USER_ID=1x1 CHANNEL_ID=tv2news PROGRAM_TITLE=Nyheder PROGRAM_START=2007-03-04T00:00:00+0100 STREAMING_SERVER=rtmp://iapetus:1935 FILENAME=Seinfeld.flv
Execute script that issues a ticket
cd <wowza-plugin-src-code>/scripts ./getTicket.sh
The console window now shows URL and text. The strings can be copy-pasted into the SimpleVideoStreaming browser client.
Tests
Streaming video
Test that streaming a video is succesful
Test that an invalid ticket result in rickroll video
Live Streaming video
Test that live streaming a video is succesful
Test that an invalid ticket result in live rickroll video
Streaming of preview videos
Test streaming of a preview video is succesful
Streaming Statistics
Video streams are logged on start
Live video streams are logged on start