Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
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Reliable service
What do you like best about the product?
Reliability... no downtime. Customer service is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a little expensive to have peace of mind.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Wowza to stream our multiple Live Web Cams on our websites.
Empowering Developers with Seamless Video Delivery
What do you like best about the product?
I’ve worked with a variety of streaming platforms, and Wowza Streaming stands out for its exceptional performance and reliability. Whether you're deploying Wowza Streaming Engine on-premises or leveraging Wowza Streaming Cloud, the experience is consistently seamless.
Wowza empowers teams to deliver high-quality video and audio to any device, anywhere in the world. Its flexibility across deployment models and robust support for low-latency streaming make it an ideal solution for both live broadcasts and on-demand content. The platform’s scalability and integration capabilities, especially with cloud services and AI workflows, make it a powerful asset for any organization looking to elevate its streaming strategy.
Wowza empowers teams to deliver high-quality video and audio to any device, anywhere in the world. Its flexibility across deployment models and robust support for low-latency streaming make it an ideal solution for both live broadcasts and on-demand content. The platform’s scalability and integration capabilities, especially with cloud services and AI workflows, make it a powerful asset for any organization looking to elevate its streaming strategy.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial configuration of Wowza Streaming can be complex, especially for beginners. This involves setting up protocols, encoding settings, and server configurations with many choices that can be confusing on the outset. But once you get it working, it pretty much just works.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've utilized Wowza for testing live streaming, particularly during development of AI Vision solutions and found that it was extremely reliable. On the start of any project, I typically head over to the Big Buck Bunny stream and start working with that to test my client code, then begin my buildout of the real solution.
Professional Streaming / VOD workhorse with plenty of features
What do you like best about the product?
It's very stable and it runs nicely on Linux platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Updating installation is not so easy, when you have custom configurations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza handles high amount of different incoming video streams and encodes them with NVIDIA GPU's to smaller bitrates and resolutions. It also provides Video On Demand files. Wowza has also nice REST API to connect other apps to it.
Enterprise Wowza expirience
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is a very robust streaming service that I use on a weekly service and I like that is completely reliable and it had never fail me. I like the easy way to use and that integrates with my software that I use.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like wowza to have closed captions and a chat because it lacks of those features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use wowza video service as my main streaming service to stream all the company meetings and town halls.
For Live streaming services
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza plays major role in streaming my online channels. so far so good. control pannels are user friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Whenever any issue raise. they ask for log. in log we couldnt able figure out the issue. support system is not user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
helps online streaming services. Running online channels and ott platforms
Wowza Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming is a robust and reliable platform that offers a high level of flexibility for live and on-demand video streaming. One of its standout features is the support for multiple streaming protocols like HLS, RTMP, and WebRTC, which makes it adaptable to a wide range of broadcasting needs. The API and SDK support is excellent, allowing for deep customization and integration into custom workflows or apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza can be complex and has a steep learning curve for new users. Setting up advanced configurations often requires a solid understanding of streaming technologies and networking. The documentation is thorough but sometimes difficult to navigate, and support can be slow unless you’re on a premium plan. Additionally, the pricing model may not be ideal for smaller organizations or individual creators, as costs can add up quickly depending on bandwidth and streaming hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza solves the hard, infrastructure-level headaches of modern video delivery—protocol juggling, scaling, security, and observability—so our team can focus on content and product features that actually move the needle. The result has been faster launches, fewer fires to fight, and a noticeably better viewer experience.
Live Stream with Wowza
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza provides a good streaming platforms to the organization. As a company, we conducting multiple Live stream webinars and introductions to security platforms, this has been a great solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have experience when hosting on-premise, the deployment had some challenges and took lot of our time. Also, we experienced when attaching our banner even with correct file format, it notifies as the file format is incorrect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For our webniar sessions, Wowza was a great help. Also, it gives to schedule Advetisment for the sessions and the management of our session took place without missig any details. The quality of the content was really good.
Great for streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use and looks great. Useful for streaming company events
What do you dislike about the product?
I don’t have any bad things to say about wowza streaming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to live stream events on campus.
Developer using Wowza for 9 years
What do you like best about the product?
How it has become more stable with less memory leaks over time
What do you dislike about the product?
Reviewing log files when issues occur or WSE crashes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We ingest camera streams from a variety of churches in different countries and Wowza performs the live streaming and also allows us to record services in those churches.
Rock solid video streaming engine for video on demand
What do you like best about the product?
We've been using Wowza to serve out videos on demand for over 4 years now. Rock solid software with some great security features too. The engine itself is customizable via a Java plugin if you need more advanced features!
What do you dislike about the product?
Very few downsides. Perhaps pricing, depending on how many instances you need to run - but not an issue at our scale.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza is our video player that serves out video on demand to our customers.
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