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Teltoo

Integration with Wowza Streaming Engine

Configuring Hybrid Fetch (HTTP byte serving) for Wowza Streaming Engine can be done using two approaches Using the manager (GUI) or changing the applications xml settings file Using the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager (GUI) The following are the steps to follow using the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager: Go to your applicationsSelect the application to change the setting This works both with Live and VOD applicationsClick “Edit” on the application's main viewEnable Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) so that CORS HTTP headers are added to all responsesSave the settingsRestart the...

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Hybrid Fetch

Teltoo takes advantage of HTTP byte serving to improve CDN Offload performance This process consists of downloading just a portion of a video segment instead of all of it This allows Teltoo to download a video segment by combining data from the P2P network and the CDN You can see this as a mid-segment source selection  This setting is active by default but requires that the CDN or origin media server be adequately adjusted We have created different guides to activate this on different CDNs or media servers We highly recommend that you keep it always active, and Teltoo will...

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CORS

Your server/CDN hosting the media content must have a CORS configuration that allows the player domain to access the stream content's domain (if they are different) This is a requirement for any HTML5 playback, not a Teltoo-specific requirement  Therefore, you would typically have this configuration already in place However, for reference, if you have an origin server and a CDN, you will need to make sure both support the right CORS headers Activation For wide-open CORS: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: To open CORS, open to your website domain (eg...

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Control Panel Configurations

Global P2P Switch After you integrate Teltoo with your player and add a playlist, it will be ready to use This switch allows you to manually enable or disable peering globally In other words, media segments will not be shared between devices when off, allowing you to activate or deactivate CDN offload  Traffic measurements and analytics of the added playlists will still be tracked at all times, whether the Global P2P Switch is enabled or disabled To disable monitoring, you also need to disable each playlist individually Device activation rules Teltoo provides the...

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