Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.3+4Linux/Unix, HAQM Linux 2023 - 64-bit HAQM Machine Image (AMI)
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Good, solid, reliable software
What do you like best about the product?
It always works. The application has never crashed, and can always be counted on being available. Being a self-contained Java application, it's never affected by OS updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being a Java application, it is a bit heavy on memory usage. Licensing has room for improvement. A "perpetual license" requires an annual renewal fee if you want updates. Updates are advertised and available whether you pay the annual fee or not, and if you don't, they threaten to shut down your software remotely unless you catch up on fees. They are now more transparent about this, but functionally it's still the same process. Lastly, the software dials home to the mothership and won't run if the license is in use somewhere else. This is a somewhat understandable approach, except it's impossible to have a hot disaster recovery server on standby. In the event of a disaster, a DR server has to be manually configured with the correct version and configuration of Wowza.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming Engine allows us to distribute our live streams, as well as video on demand, as wide as possible through scalable cloud servers with high bandwidth connections.
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Wowza Streaming - GoTo Choice for High-Quality
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine is dependable and adaptable streaming engine that provides high quality live and ondemand content across an variety of devices. Whether you are conducting a corporate webcast and a live event, or an OTT platform. It has a variety of capabilities to make streaming easy.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup might be challenging for new users, so be prepared for a learning curve. This is not most cost effective choice and especially for smaller-scale applications. Web RTC ultra low latency requires further settings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compatibility across several devices and platforms.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
It provides low latency high quality video streaming with bitrate adjustments.
What do you like best about the product?
It is best solution for CCTV live streaming with various CCTV brands, which provides highly video transmissions features for clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
The implementation cost is very and more technical knowledge is required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had a requirement to stream Live video streaming for different brand of cctv , Wowza was able to provide that feature and fulfilled the requirement with low latency video experiance.
Wowza In Action | Is It Worth Your Efforts?
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about the product is that it's capability to support low latency streaming which helps for real time interactions. The product also excels in scalability and performance to handle high volume streaming of live-broadcasting, VOD and 24/7 streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing of the product is costly according to my point of view. And also Wowza requires considerable amount of server resources which leads to high infrastructure cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza has helped to address several challenges in the streaming industry such as; reliable, low latency and scalable solutions for businesses. One another they have addresses is its capability to provide smooth high quality streaming across multiple devices. Wowza also makes it easier to deliver content efficiently regardless of the audience's location.
Hassle free way to stream
What do you like best about the product?
Fast and easy way to stream
Secure way to stream
Integration with various apps for streaming
Secure way to stream
Integration with various apps for streaming
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing mechanism should be more streamline
Please introduce a channel base business model
Please introduce a channel base business model
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This make my job easy to stream my contents to mobiles.
Power house for Video Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza offers single console management for Metadata Management, Video Clipping, Auto Captioning and for Permissions & Access which makes it easy to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up wowza requires more technical ability compared to other platforms. Also deploying wowza on prem requires heavy resources which can be costly. Wowza is more suited for SMB market since it is bit more price heavy than the other solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Wowza we can get low latency streaming which benefits us for live interactive events. Also Wowza is compatible with multiple device bitrate streaming and multiple formats such as DASH, WebRTC, HLS, RTMP. Also Wowza helps us customize the platform as for our need and built streaming applications as per our requirement.
Wowza is a cloud based, and on-premises hosted live streaming platform with next-gen capabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Adaptive bitrate video streaming feature can provide a high-quality on-demand video streaming experience for users.
What do you dislike about the product?
high technical knowledge is required when deploying the on-premises hosted Wowza solution and license cost is bit of higher for small scale users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of customer is running a lottery related business and they need to live stream their lottery selection process for their client. Wowza on-premises hosted solution was able to successfully be fulfilled their requirement and on-demand streaming can be adjusted the video quality according to the bitrate which is an amazing features for this customer.
High quality video transmission solution with low latancy
What do you like best about the product?
Wowzah provides cloud based and on-prem-based live video transmission features, and the quality will be adjusted according to the bit rate, which is a best feature. Customer support is very high quality.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial deployment process requires a high technical knowledge and takes more time to deploy the on-premises setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of our customers had requirements to transmit their factory CCTV traffic to their head office premises, there were 75 security cameras on their factory side. We had to transmit the huge CCTV Live stream traffic to their head office monitoring team. Wowza was able to successfully fulfil this requirement.
consistent high quality, manual and document are well maintained and easy to find new function
What do you like best about the product?
easily transcode from RTMP to HLS (h.264) and robustly works over EC2 so we can easily and consistently provide LIVE streaming service. without Wowza, we can not provide our service.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
What do you dislike about the product?
The DVR feature has a serious bug (CPU/memory usage gradually increases and eventually system crashes) when using Wowza for long DVR HLS live streaming of 21 video streams and is still unresolved after reporting it to wowza 5 years ago!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
How to transcode function from RTMP to HLS with low cost and high consistency and stability.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
Reliable performance from an intermediate user
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to setup a specialized local streaming capability within my organization using wowza documentation and forum posts with very little hassle or troubleshooting needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the more technical elements of the software were way over my head. The good news is wowza has people who can assist with this stuff!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to rebroadcast a COTS streaming capability to an internal service for recording and viewing. Wowza was able to handle the routing and recording of these rtsp streams seamlessly.
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