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![]() Once you’ve added these details, you’ll land on the home screen, and be greeted by a dashboard of sorts. If you choose the option to Skip Intro, you’ll be taken to a page where you’ll need to enter a username and password, this time for streaming purposes, which doesn’t necessarily need to match the one you entered during the Wowza Config setup. We left the box checked with the option to launch the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager once installation completedĩ:04 AM: After finishing the Wowza Config setup, the default browser automatically launches the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager, which shows a welcome screen and offers an intro for first-time users. We opted to turn off the auto-start feature, whereby the Wowza Streaming Engine automatically starts when the operating system starts, but most installations would leave this checked so that the server is immediately ready. We will come back to this point in a bit, because several things can happen on any Wowza Config setup if the wrong serial number is used, but it’s especially bad on the Macintosh installation version. ![]() Choose open and you’ll be asked a classic Windows Vista question: are you sure? Choose OK and then you’re off and running.ĩ:03 AM: At the end of the installation process, a notification pops up announcing that it has successfully been installed with an additional note that the Wowza Streaming Engine configuration needs to run.Īt this point, the installer will prompt for a serial number and request a username and password. Right click (or control-click) on the image and you’ll be presented with a menu. You’ll know if you run into the same if you get a message that the application can't be opened. Since our version didn’t come from the App Store, we hit the same issue that every OS X Mavericks application hits: the Gatekeeper. Here’s our play by play:ĩ:01 AM: Double-click to launch package. We started a test exactly at 9:01 AM Eastern Time on February 10, the day before Wowza’s media embargo lifted, having downloaded the pre-release bits the night before for the Apple Macintosh operating system (OS X 10.9, or Mavericks). Very fast, if one wants to do a standard configuration. Just how much faster does the new graphical user interface (GUI) make setting up Wowza Streaming Engine, the fourth generation of Wowza Media Server?
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