Use of external publishing point

When comes to "external publishing point", we only accept RTMP protocol for the time being.

Meaning the external publishing point url must start with "rtmp//xxxxxx.xxxx.com/live" (example). You can exclude the "stream name" from the external publishing point url. For example, if your working rtmp stream have a url of "rtmp://mystreamingurl.com/live/stream1" , you just have to insert "rtmp://mystreamingurl.com/live/" for external publishing point url.

Once it is "restream" accross the CDN, it can be viewed in RTMP, HDS, HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, RTSP protocols. The connection flow would be:  Viewer PC ->Closest Streaming Edge ->  External Publishing Point

Known Limitation
(1) wowza only supports re-streaming h264+aac to HLS/HDS.

(2) For HLS/HDS restream, only wowza rtmp origin is supported