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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Wowza is a great software for work
What do you like best about the product?
It has the On-prem feature which helped us conveniently to do our day today work. As a news broadcast company our day to today would have been so hard if we couldn't find wowza as our main partner for broadcasting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times on prem login didna't work correctly. But only the user login. Server worked pretty well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Live broadcasting. Since Sri lanka is a very poor country in tech. So we definitely needed a good software for our broadcasting. Wowza solved us that problem. Thanks to wowza we are doing our job properly.
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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.
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.
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