Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Even on a Mac Mini, WOWZA gets the job done!
What do you like best about the product?
WOWZA is a super reliable, effecient media server empowering our orgaization to deliver lprogramming live and on demand. We have been using WOWZA for over 20 years, starting on an Apple Xserver. Our WOWZA now resides on older Mac Mini (3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5) and is easily able to keep up with the demand for our programming. Maintence is almost non-existant, save for the yealy renewal of our Streamlock certificate. It just works!
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial configuration can be a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it is easy to alter and add functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With our internal WOWZA server, we are able to host an enorous amount of archived programming since we can use cheap, local storage.
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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.
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!
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.
The System Integrators dream!
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.
Good and complete streaming engine. Supports the needs of my software
What do you like best about the product?
Compatibility with industry standards for streaming videos and easy of use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Poor support for RTSP, some protocols features are not implemented, such as Authentication. Lack of support for onvif.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have the need to stream multiple live feeds from drones around the world to a plataform that saves this videos, and reestreams it to my clients video center if needed. Wowza Streaming Engine helps me as a central server were I can send the video, as converts the video stream to a cloud based storage for VOD.
Customisable and Secure Streaming Engine
What do you like best about the product?
It's capability in customisation according to it's customer's need is great. Specially when it comes to developer it has various options which are easy to build the solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the integration solution like flowplayer is bit complex and not as streamlined as it should be. Specially interatice playback feature is need to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza streaming engine is best when it comes to customisation. However it's other features of security and scalability is better in every aspect in this domain.
Useless Redhat Instance with no package upstream. DIY yourself.
Needed to fire an instance up for SRT development. only to find after wasting an hour trying to get gstreamer installed for seperate testing I could not get it installed. Redhat is like the worst Linux ever and terrible to manage. That bad I wasted time trying to install something that didn't exist as its upstream package rep is not in sync with anything else.
Going to have to DIY my own debian and use apt. At least I can install gstreamer without wasting time in my R&D phase being on a timer and all.
It is good
What do you like best about the product?
Full documentation
Great support
Reliable
Easy
Great support
Reliable
Easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes after update. Once. Got problem and roller back
I could not record incomming rtp streams wowza did not catch them and I looked for another solution
I find the API have a parrier of passage. Not one click lunch or something like this.
1 year support only for all life license makes no sence because updates all life will need support...
The log files take tooo much space over time and I am not sure I read about alert to put them somewhere not to fill the disk!
I could not record incomming rtp streams wowza did not catch them and I looked for another solution
I find the API have a parrier of passage. Not one click lunch or something like this.
1 year support only for all life license makes no sence because updates all life will need support...
The log files take tooo much space over time and I am not sure I read about alert to put them somewhere not to fill the disk!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Live streaming
Vod
Target to youtube
Vod
Target to youtube
Disappointing
It's disappointing that Wowza's AMI doesn't support high-throughput networking via Elastic Networking Adapter. From Amazon's documentation on ENA: "Enhanced networking provides higher bandwidth, higher packet-per-second (PPS) performance, and consistently lower inter-instance latencies."
This adapter is available on lots of EC2 instance types, including the new M5 generation, providing 10 Mbit performance. Comparing M4.large to M5.large, the M5 is cheaper, and *way* better network performance: 0.47 Gbit/s on M4.large and 10.04 Gbit/s on M5.large.
Alas, I can't use Wowza's AMI to take advantage of this massive upgrade in performance.
Come on Wowza. Latency matters in streaming!
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