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Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)

Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.0

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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6 AWS reviews

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37 reviews
from G2

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    Jerry L.

A great media streaming software and solutions

  • September 06, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I've learned and used it for more than 10 years, and introduced to my clients all the time
What do you dislike about the product?
pricing higher and higher every year. i've not got discount for a long while
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
supporting my client's service platform for a long time


    Computer Games

Easy to set up

  • August 27, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Quite easy to set up, documentation easy to understand
What do you dislike about the product?
No support for captions in multiple languages
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Azure streaming was phased out


    Alessandro C.

Very powerful streaming platform with dozen of possibilities of configurations.

  • August 27, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its flexibility to create various live streaming protocols.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its lack of better analytics and somewhat not clear logs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Wowza instaled on our own server, it is possible to choose to which CDN to deliver them.


    Lino M.

Great web streaming solution with a few missing features

  • August 27, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is great for streaming and offers many services for transmission of audio and video. The quality looks great and it was very easy for my client to embed on their website. Great back end with data.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no backup RTMP or failover if your primary stream goes down.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily embeddable streaming solution that can be white labeled.


    Daniel F.

I've been using Wowza for over 10 years

  • August 27, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wowza had taken the guesswork and mystery out of live streaming while also providing a very rubust and trustworthy streaming platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
At first we really wanted a platform that would provide a player page for the live streaming player. We learned to use javascript to embed the player on a page. They now offer a iFrame experiance to do it, but I would have been great to have the iFrame method 10 years ago.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for a reliable high quality platform for streaming HD video. Also one that gave confidance that video was being delivered, and did not mysterously cut out or have issues that made you explaine to the client why the live stream didn't work.


    Zahid H.

Wowza is Best streaming Engine in the Market

  • August 25, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine is a versatile and robust media server that supports a wide range of streaming protocols and formats, which is one of the features I appreciate most. Its flexibility in handling both live and on-demand streaming makes it suitable for various use cases, from enterprise-level deployments to smaller, custom streaming solutions. Additionally, Wowza's support for adaptive bitrate streaming ensures a smooth experience for viewers across different devices and network conditions.

The comprehensive API and SDKs provided by Wowza also allow developers to create customized streaming workflows, making it a highly adaptable tool. Its low latency capabilities are particularly impressive, especially for applications like live sports or interactive broadcasts where real-time delivery is critical. Lastly, the detailed analytics and monitoring tools offered by Wowza are useful for optimizing and troubleshooting streaming performance
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not happy with their Pricing, IT should be less for Startup Companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its easy to use to I dont need big team to stream my content.


    ron k.

Wowza is a simple, inexpensive way to stream to multiple online platforms with minimal effort.

  • August 25, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wowza has a fairly simple setup for the stream and stream targets. The transcoding options are fairly priced and give us multiple stream resolution options from our incomeoing 1080p stream. We stream to Wowza and Wowza outputs to our Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Rumble, Church Online Platform (2 transcoded resolutions) and and an audio only Phone streaming platform.

We use Wowza 3 times a week presently but in the past we were streaming up to 6 times a week. Wowza's feature set is great for the lower monthly fee options they offer. Once you setup your multiple streaming targets, you can decide if it's full (passthrough) resolution or transcoded down to lower resolutions. They offer video storage, VOD and OTT features we aren't utilizing presently, but they're there if you need them. The few times we've had questions our support emails have been replied to in a timely manner.
Wowza is a straight forward, solid, reliable system for simple to complex streaming needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza just updated their user interface and as they simplified some of the steps for setup, it seems they may have removed some of the target editing options they used to have. I need to investigate further... But I know they listen to user feedback and if there's something that is needed they'll find a way to make it happen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza allows us to stream 1 x 1080p stream from our site to their cloud.wowza streaming. They seemlessly provide the stream output to multiple platforms, with multiple transcoded resolutions as needed.


    Telecommunications

Overall positive experience with Wowza Streaming Engine.

  • August 23, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Reliable streaming engine with smooth performance, customizable options, and excellent scalability for live and on-demand streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface not user friendly, initial setup is complex for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming Engine solves the challenge of delivering high-quality, low-latency video streams to a global audience.


    Facilities Services

The System Integrators dream!

  • August 21, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It was quite simple to setup, the documentation was thorough when necessary. The Customer support portal was easy to use, and had a very quick response time. Very easy to integrate multiple camera vendors in a building.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more out of the box support for other camera vendors, or a guide / trip and tricks on how to get RTSP URLs for other non-supported vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allowed us to get real time interfacing in with our buildings alarm system. The operator receives and alarm on the building management platform and the corresponding CCTV feed is opened on a trigger. This allowed for non-traditional security related alarms to also trigger a CCTV feed.


    Michal K.

Good for Internet / lacks support for legacy systems

  • August 20, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Works well with internet codecs, I like the multiplatformity, quite stable for long run.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking legacy codecs (MPEG1 audio, MPEG2, H.264 CBR). Config thru XML is somehow complex. Java has some limitation on Windows servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
provides access to my media files thru "streaming" (mostly thru HLS)