It does take about an hour or two for it to get set up, but you’ll have the certificate and it’ll appear at the bottom, like so. From the StreamLock tab, you can just simply put in your license key for Wowza Streaming Engine, as well as enter the IP address you’ll be referencing and then apply for the certificate. And under my account, go to the StreamLock tab. Now to get your StreamLock certificate, you’ll want to go back to and as long as you’re logged in, from the top you can go straight to my account. I’m just going to grab it right here, right now. I’ll need to enable SSL/ StreamLock and I will need this key store pass. I’ll need the name being StreamLock, the streaming type, the IP address in asterisks port 443.
This is the information right here on how to configure it. The main part that I need directly from this documentation is the configuration of the host port. I’m going to show you how to set this up right now.
You can open up the link there to walk through the process for this as well. One of the first things it suggests you do, is get an SSL/TLS certificate from the Wowza Streaming Engine StreamLock service. You’re going to need to reference this documentation here, deliver Low-Latency HLS live streams using Wowza Streaming Engine.
Once you have it, and I have a vanilla instance of this running right now on a Windows operating system. Using the downloads link at the top, you can get the most recent version for Windows, Mac, or Linux, and you’re going to want to have version 4.8.5.05 or above for this to work. The first thing you’re going to need is to go to and make sure you have the most recent version of Wowza Streaming Engine. I’m going to walk you through the process of setting this up using Wowza Streaming Engine. Apple Low-Latency HLS allows you to stream live with a sub-three-second latency.