Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.3+4Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2023 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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.
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Streaming Engine
What do you like best about the product?
This enables to stream video and audio any device or location. Supports a variety of streaming protocols. It can process massages at scale with high throughput and low latency.
What do you dislike about the product?
It required manual adjustments to thing like streaming parameters.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm working with variety of devices such as laptop, smart phone and tablet. This platform supports those varieties of devices.
Wowza is high quality video streaming solution with next generation features.
What do you like best about the product?
This solution offers on-premise and cloud hosted streaming option which help me to enable low latency streaming experiance for one of major customer. As project manager , i was able to fulfill customer requirments with Wowza which is high quality product , futhermore customer support is next level.
What do you dislike about the product?
When implmenting this solution in our customer envoiremnt , The on-premise impletation process took a long time period to complete the implementaion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
On of our customer required to having solution to live stream their online betting business among the centers island wide. We proposed the wowza as a live streaming solution and we were able to deploy Wowza server in their envviornment which has been able to enable high quality video streaming for thier businness. The Customer feedback was very good for this solution and someone looking a for a video streaming with low latancy this is the ideal solution.
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.
Wowza: The Swiss Army Knife of video streaming server platforms!
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza has the most robust suite of configurable options, allowing maximum flexibility for incoming and outgoing streams. Installation and implementation is always straightforward and the platform integrates with all our streaming providers with ease. Support from the Wowza professionals is top-notch and the product is well documented. We're using the platform installed on our on-premise servers on a daily basis.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are so many options available, even the GUI can be somewhat confusing until you get used to it -- but Wowza has made many improvements over the years and it is always getting better!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessibility features for video is a high priority for us and Wowza puts resources toward making sure their streaming engine supports all the necessary items needed such as closed captions, audio tracks, etc. Wowza also gives us the ability to re-stream to multiple platforms simultaneously without subscribing to a usage-based service.
We use Wowza to stream our live media tours.
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is always available and ready to spin up at a moment's notice.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no indication to the user that there are charges or what the charges are.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza gives the ability for remote producers to see their interviews in real time and that allows them to not have to drive in and be present for the tours.
Powerful platform with excellent API
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza provides us with a solid platform with exactly the features and interfaces (web/API) that my team needs in order to manage streaming from our in-person events. The Wowza team is responsive and helpful. We have been able to easily leverage Wowza to better control and integrate with our event platform and mobile application.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything in particular that sticks out to dislike about the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our event platform does not allow us to automatically start / stop streams at the time for our speakers' sessions at our in-person events. Leveraging Wowza we are able to schedule the start and stop so the streams are routed to the proper destination within our event app.
Good, solid, reliable software
What do you like best about the product?
It always works. The application has never crashed, and can always be counted on being available. Being a self-contained Java application, it's never affected by OS updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being a Java application, it is a bit heavy on memory usage. Licensing has room for improvement. A "perpetual license" requires an annual renewal fee if you want updates. Updates are advertised and available whether you pay the annual fee or not, and if you don't, they threaten to shut down your software remotely unless you catch up on fees. They are now more transparent about this, but functionally it's still the same process. Lastly, the software dials home to the mothership and won't run if the license is in use somewhere else. This is a somewhat understandable approach, except it's impossible to have a hot disaster recovery server on standby. In the event of a disaster, a DR server has to be manually configured with the correct version and configuration of Wowza.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming Engine allows us to distribute our live streams, as well as video on demand, as wide as possible through scalable cloud servers with high bandwidth connections.
Wowza Streaming - GoTo Choice for High-Quality
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine is dependable and adaptable streaming engine that provides high quality live and ondemand content across an variety of devices. Whether you are conducting a corporate webcast and a live event, or an OTT platform. It has a variety of capabilities to make streaming easy.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup might be challenging for new users, so be prepared for a learning curve. This is not most cost effective choice and especially for smaller-scale applications. Web RTC ultra low latency requires further settings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compatibility across several devices and platforms.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
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