Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.3+3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2023 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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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.
Stable, extensible and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
We use wowza streaming engine to stream RTSP streams to webRTC. Wowza peovides all that is needed to securely deliver webRTC streams. It is easy to use, and we are not streaming experts.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have written a custom plugins that is used by the steaming engine, it’s a tad bit difficult to develop them without the wowza IDE.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ultra low latency streams to webRTC browsers using WBRTC.
It is a good streaming system
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, easy to manage, and very efficient. They are constantly releasing updates to improve its performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe it needs better documentation and support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza allows us to send live broadcasts to various platforms with a fairly simple configuration and administration. A simple interface to control, with a lot of versatility and options to optimize the resources of the transmission and the hardware needed for live broadcasts, both incoming and outgoing.
Has worked reliably for us for many years.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility. Has many customizable options. Using stream targets between applications has been handy. We've used it reliably for many years.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial configuration with GPU acceleration for transcoding has been problematic.
Also wish there was a way to quickly see which applications are active and also be able to terminate a stream that has accidentally be left running w/out needing to change PW on the app.
Also wish there was a way to quickly see which applications are active and also be able to terminate a stream that has accidentally be left running w/out needing to change PW on the app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a live streaming provider, it's perhaps our most vital application coupled with a good CDN.
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What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to set up and use but allows a wide range of customization.
There are plenty of Java plugins for Wowza, and it is quite easy to write your own.
Other systems can easily integrate with Wowza.
It is market standard so it is tested on many devices and problems with streaming even strange ones are rare and rather easily solvable.
There are plenty of Java plugins for Wowza, and it is quite easy to write your own.
Other systems can easily integrate with Wowza.
It is market standard so it is tested on many devices and problems with streaming even strange ones are rare and rather easily solvable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza does not support new streaming technology like AV1.
It does not fully support subtitles for live channels (doable, but requires quite a work and not standard solutions)
Tickets created by support are not visible to the client, so we often report something and have to check if it is implemented in the new version, without proper information from the Wowza team.
It does not fully support subtitles for live channels (doable, but requires quite a work and not standard solutions)
Tickets created by support are not visible to the client, so we often report something and have to check if it is implemented in the new version, without proper information from the Wowza team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming live TV for users.
Great product, easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
Lack of issues with the software allow it to be a seamless experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love it but could be a little more aesthetically pleasing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing an easy, user friendly experience for us and our clients.
Great web streaming solution with a few missing features
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.
Wowza is a simple, inexpensive way to stream to multiple online platforms with minimal effort.
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.
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.
Overall positive experience with Wowza Streaming Engine.
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.
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