Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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Wowza is a no-issue streaming engine.
What do you like best about the product?
It’s a very reliable platform for both live streaming and VoD, offering a lot of flexibility for encoding, transcoding, and distributing videos. It supports a wide range of protocols—like HLS, RTMP, and WebRTC—along with its cloud integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza offers a lot of features, but this can make the setup process complex for new users who are not familiar with streaming technology. In our case - beginners felt that there is a steep learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza provides a scalable architecture that can handle both high volumes of viewers and large amounts of content. It supports dynamic bandwidth allocation and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR), ensuring that streams are delivered at optimal quality based on the viewer's internet connection and device capabilities.
PAYG streaming - quick, easy and affordable
What do you like best about the product?
We've used Wowza on and off for many years - the quality of the encoders and the recently updated FlowPlayer are pretty hard to beat, particularly at the price point (you can go down a fantastic rabbithole of customising FlowPlayer to match your site with the FlowPlayer add-ons)
Embedding is as simple as a line of code that is generated by the site when you create your stream (and all the encoding options get auto generated but are stil available to adjust as you see fit - nothing seems to be hidden away here!)
A great recent addition has been improving the speed of download on the saved stream footage - previously an 8-hour day would take almost an hour from request to actually starting a download. Now it's much quicker and I can't say how much more usable this has made Wowza (thank you, you've literally cut hours off our tunr-around times!)
Although the customer service times seem quite slow for PAYG customers, I've never had to wait that long to get help (and in 'critical' time sensitive matters they do seem to reply quickly)
Embedding is as simple as a line of code that is generated by the site when you create your stream (and all the encoding options get auto generated but are stil available to adjust as you see fit - nothing seems to be hidden away here!)
A great recent addition has been improving the speed of download on the saved stream footage - previously an 8-hour day would take almost an hour from request to actually starting a download. Now it's much quicker and I can't say how much more usable this has made Wowza (thank you, you've literally cut hours off our tunr-around times!)
Although the customer service times seem quite slow for PAYG customers, I've never had to wait that long to get help (and in 'critical' time sensitive matters they do seem to reply quickly)
What do you dislike about the product?
Over the past few years, every little annoyance seems to have been ironed out of the platform meaning that my dislike is a little bit of my impatience!
For the PAYG, it'd be nice if they had a tally of current charges outstanding on your account.
The prices for PAYG clearly displayed, they tell you how much data you've used each day but you need to work out the price yourself (I know, basic multiplication, but it'd be nice if they could add this into their fantastic platform
For the PAYG, it'd be nice if they had a tally of current charges outstanding on your account.
The prices for PAYG clearly displayed, they tell you how much data you've used each day but you need to work out the price yourself (I know, basic multiplication, but it'd be nice if they could add this into their fantastic platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Occasionally we need to run multiple streams over conflicting times meaning we run out of available streams on our main provider. Wowza's PAYG has a (seemingly) limitless amount of streams available, customising our FlowPlayer to look 'close enough' to our main streams is easy and to be completely honest, none of our end users could tell that we had 2 separate back-end services providing streams!
Wowza is reliable and a necessity for our application.
What do you like best about the product?
We use Wowza as our live streaming solution inside of our application. The reliablibility and flexibility is a necessity for us and Wowza provides seamless integration. It is used daily as our solution for live streaming. We have not had to reach for customer support very often, but when we did, the response was quick and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Off hand, I really can't think of any negatives. We haven't ever experienced any outages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use 3rd party cameras with a proprietary firmware for to show live streaming on construction sites for our customers. This allows our customers to see what is happening on a job site without having to travel to the site, which saves them time and money.
Wowza is a simple software pacakage, s
What do you like best about the product?
Control panel allows a detailed setup of all aspects that involve a live broadcast. Fast and easy integration through API.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the bugs are extremely difficult to debug. We had a recurring issue where the server would suddenly become unresponsive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it at the moment only for playout of VOD files
Solid Streaming Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is a robust streaming platform that frankly just works. It does everyting my organization has needed it to do and hase been rock solid throughout our subscription.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tracking mechanism for where the viewers are originating could be more granular.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza gives us a 24/7 linear streaming feed with minimal support needed
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.
Used for years, always a great experience for our audience.
What do you like best about the product?
We love how simple it is to set up and monitor. It integrates with our streaming software VMix -using just a short code. And for our audience members, the quality of the streams, regardless of device, has been excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside is they did increase the basic monthly fee to use the service a la carte. Not cost prohibitive, but as small K12 school, for what we stream to our parents/etc, it it was an unwanted fee increase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza allows us to stream our live events to our parents and community members who cannot attend. IT's been awesome to receive feedback from grandparents in other states/even countries, to be able to see their grandchild on stage/etc.
Great and reliable streaming service for a fair price
What do you like best about the product?
I choose Wowza Video because of its fair pricing model. It works great for my monthly livestreams for years. I hade some issues before one livestream and the wowza suppot helped me solving it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza had some trouble updating its video portal to the new version. But now everything works fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Offering livestream service for my clients
Live streaming with Wowza
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand and east to implement, good and responsive customer support. Easy to broadcast to different platforms. Useful for both Live streaming and Video on Demand
What do you dislike about the product?
The monitoring section could be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
How we broadcast our live streams
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