RTMP Hosting for live streaming with Churches

RTMP Hosting with Media servers from Hosting Marketers.

With pandemic of coronavirus and the lockdown causing so much suffering specially the older people it is necessary in fact obligatory for churches to step up and start streaming live their churches events. How it is possible that some churches still are not streaming on Sundays? and what about mosques?

Don’t the muslims have the right to have their Friday Khutbah? It is different from seeing on TV with streaming live from Mecca, to stream the live event on their neighbour mosque and seeing their Imam is a consultation and more then ever a real need in times like this.

We not living in somewhere 200 years ago, we are in 2020 and with modern technologies it is easier than at any time to add an IP camera to a mosque or a church with a $50 camera and start streaming live to their people.

That is why Hosting Marketers has step up and with a simple control panel you can go live in 3 minutes.

With easy steps and personalized support, we’ll be there every step of the way to ensure your church is set up to live stream your services.

RTMP Hosting From Hosting Marketers

Order our Live Streaming Server demo account and test our services. Or better still email us your requirements and your phone number and we will call you, we will help step by step on setting up your church services. Email us with your phone number here.

Since 2009 we help live streaming church services in 57 countries.

CAPTURE
Capture your church live service with a video camera or mobile device.

CONNECT
Connect your video to a computer.

BROADCAST
Broadcast your video to your church website (if you don’t have one we can create a web site for your Church) and major social platforms, Facebook Live, YouTube, Vimeo and more.

hosting marketers, office, they hosting with rtmp and rtmp hosting since 2005

Hosting Marketers uses the rtmp server which is a protocol to stream video, media and live events in the internet between browsers. This offering of them uses the RTMP Hosting which is from wowza.

Lets first explain what is a media server. A media server in this case the rtmp hosting provided by Hosting Marketers a web host which is online since 2005, differently from a normal server which is used mainly to host web sites is used to handle media events, audio, video streaming, video chat and so on.

Than Hosting Marketers with their RTMP solutions implement a way that connect to the input which could be a video camera or a microphone and then connect to the output which is a flash player so the user sitting behind a desktop or a laptop can hear or see the video with the stream.

RTMP Server in the era of HTTP video streaming

Given the growing popularity and support of HTTP video streaming, it may be tempting to consider Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) streaming obsolete. But in many cases, working with RTMP server is still very meaningful. As soon as Macromedia first pronounced RTMP with Flash Player 6 in 2002, the brand new Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX (FCS) required to stream the evolving Flash Video (FLV) format, stream was live or VOD.

However, for FCS, licensing costs were high (up to $5,000 per server), and as a result, CDN costs were high than other proprietary streaming formats. Some manufacturers in the industry have called RTMP streaming costs a “Flash tax”. But Flash Player has been a ubiquitous introduction to desktop browsers for well over a decade, much larger than other plug-ins. Though, streaming server technology has traditionally been harder for web developers to implement, and simpler HTTP delivery has mostly been easier and more cost-effective. In 2003, Macromedia enabled Flash Player 7 to support HTTP delivery of FLV files, allowing integrators to use standard web server technology to deploy online video.

So in many ways, RTMP as a VOD transport delivery has not been a requirement for web video for more than a decade. As a video solution architect, I think of business requirements as the leader in most audio video decisions. And still, in 2014, RTMP is the de facto standard for the following use cases:

Publishing live streams from software/hardware encoders: Almost all streaming devices support RTMP to publish to CDN providers and streaming servers. Some native mobile applications also use RTMP libraries to publish live video from their mobile camera.

Near-instant search/playback: One of the benefits of RTMP streaming is its enhanced search capability. With real-time streaming, the player can search anywhere in the video with less buffering than HTTP delivery. However, to enjoy this feature, you need a Flash Player on your desktop and as such, it is not possible in mobile browsers. HTML5 browsers use HTTP domain requests to facilitate faster searching of VOD files.

Content Protection: RTMP Server can facilitate different levels of content protection, from obfuscation to true DRM. RTMP streams are not stored for playback on a desktop browser.

Adaptive Streaming: One of the preferred uses of RTMP is adaptive streaming playback, where we provide the video player with more bitrates and content resolutions, providing the best resolution at the current network speed. Some HTTP adaptive streaming technologies, such as HLS and MPEG-DASH, allow similar delivery, but RTMP may be more responsive to switching one bitrate to another. Unfortunately, there is no standard for HTTP adaptive streaming between HTML5 video-enabled browsers. As such, the Flash-based display of adaptive streaming is still a requirement for adaptive streaming.

Live Streaming Playback: While live streams do not need to be adaptive, compressed video segments apply the same principle to all live streaming playback. For desktop playback within the browser, virtually every live streaming event requires a video player that supports Flash-based rendering and RTMP playback. Apple Safari on iOS natively supports HLS, and luckily, all modern streaming servers, including the Wowza Streaming Engine, support RTMP and HLS compression.

The requirement for a Live Streaming Flash Player will only change if MPEG-DASH appears everywhere as Flash currently. If Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 support is required to install live streaming, then RTMP streaming is still required. Also, if you need a delay close to zero in a live stream, then HTTP streaming will almost certainly not meet your needs while RTMP is capable; HTTP mechanisms require that multiple packets be collected on the server before being sent to the video player.

In summary, if your video workflow involves live streaming or any kind of packaged video installation, RTMP is the key to a successful video experience. HTTP delivery has already replaced most Flash VOD installs on video, but HTTP video can’t handle all RTMP video use cases.

Another important setup on Red5 Server is the Python Hosting offered to all hosting customers, with python cpanel hosting the advantage is cheaper and easier to install and run python scripts on a normal hosting. With Python Hosting and rtmp server the customer can really start a webmasters and increase a number of usages to host python scripts or even video chat or live streaming.

As my university professor used to say the computers language for the next 50 years will be python, fast, easier with multiple modules which allow any developer to start an application running python is a few short hours.

RTMP Hosting

What is RTMP? or what is the use of a RTMP?

RTMP is kind of URL used by media servers, it is a protocol to connect for example a video camera to a media server or a viewer of a streaming event to the media server.

Lets first explain what is a media server. A media server differently from a normal server which is used mainly to host web sites is used to handle media events, audio, video streaming, video chat and so on. and the way they connect to the input which could be a video camera or a microphone and then connect to the output which is a flash player so the user sitting behind a desktop or a laptop can hear or see the video with the stream.

The main media servers are Adobe Media Server, Red5 and Wowza Streaming Engine. All 3 have the RTMP, but the rtmp is used on flash players and it has been decided that flash players are vulnerable to security holes and they use lots of laptop battery so flash players are going slowly out, the new HTML5 Players will not use RTMP.

Red5 the open source version has not yet evolve to support other protocols, while adobe media and wowza have enabled different system to support the HTML5 Player.

An example of a RTMP:

rtmp://209.95.xxx.xxx/videowhisper

RTMP Hosting

Few hosting companies support media servers or RTMP Hosting, first because it is very resource intensive and so needs high end servers but also because not many people are familiar with the management of media servers and if they are it becomes expensive to hire them on a permanent basis.

There is but a few like Red5 Server and Hosting Marketers. Hosting Marketers was the first hosting company offering media servers on they shared plan, it started with Video One costing $9.95 a month and with one RTMP assigned to the account free of any extra fee. The rtmp was from red5, but now for the last 5 years Hosting Marketers is also offering Wowza Hosting which supports RTMP and HTML5 protocols.