I am currently using Wowza to stream videos. I am currently trying to integrate Wowza, Android, and ChromeCast Device (CCD). According to this document, https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media, Google Cast supports the "MP4 protocol".
So, my question is this: is MP4 a streaming protocol, file format, or both?
In the ChromeCast Android demo applications, they simply pass a URL like this http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4 as metadata to the CCD.
To me, this implies that no server is required to stream the MP4 file. Meaning, I won't even need Wowza as an intermediary party to stream.
Is this understanding correct?
It seems that the client player will then be responsible to interact with the MP4 file directly (e.g. seek, pause, stop, play, etc...).
If you simply have an MP4 file, just pass its url and it should work fine, just like the samples (CastVideos) projects that we have on the Github.