Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.3+3Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Wowza In Action | Is It Worth Your Efforts?
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about the product is that it's capability to support low latency streaming which helps for real time interactions. The product also excels in scalability and performance to handle high volume streaming of live-broadcasting, VOD and 24/7 streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing of the product is costly according to my point of view. And also Wowza requires considerable amount of server resources which leads to high infrastructure cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza has helped to address several challenges in the streaming industry such as; reliable, low latency and scalable solutions for businesses. One another they have addresses is its capability to provide smooth high quality streaming across multiple devices. Wowza also makes it easier to deliver content efficiently regardless of the audience's location.
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Power house for Video Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza offers single console management for Metadata Management, Video Clipping, Auto Captioning and for Permissions & Access which makes it easy to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up wowza requires more technical ability compared to other platforms. Also deploying wowza on prem requires heavy resources which can be costly. Wowza is more suited for SMB market since it is bit more price heavy than the other solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Wowza we can get low latency streaming which benefits us for live interactive events. Also Wowza is compatible with multiple device bitrate streaming and multiple formats such as DASH, WebRTC, HLS, RTMP. Also Wowza helps us customize the platform as for our need and built streaming applications as per our requirement.
Wowza is a cloud based, and on-premises hosted live streaming platform with next-gen capabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Adaptive bitrate video streaming feature can provide a high-quality on-demand video streaming experience for users.
What do you dislike about the product?
high technical knowledge is required when deploying the on-premises hosted Wowza solution and license cost is bit of higher for small scale users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of customer is running a lottery related business and they need to live stream their lottery selection process for their client. Wowza on-premises hosted solution was able to successfully be fulfilled their requirement and on-demand streaming can be adjusted the video quality according to the bitrate which is an amazing features for this customer.
consistent high quality, manual and document are well maintained and easy to find new function
What do you like best about the product?
easily transcode from RTMP to HLS (h.264) and robustly works over EC2 so we can easily and consistently provide LIVE streaming service. without Wowza, we can not provide our service.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
What do you dislike about the product?
The DVR feature has a serious bug (CPU/memory usage gradually increases and eventually system crashes) when using Wowza for long DVR HLS live streaming of 21 video streams and is still unresolved after reporting it to wowza 5 years ago!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
How to transcode function from RTMP to HLS with low cost and high consistency and stability.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
Reliable performance from an intermediate user
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to setup a specialized local streaming capability within my organization using wowza documentation and forum posts with very little hassle or troubleshooting needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the more technical elements of the software were way over my head. The good news is wowza has people who can assist with this stuff!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to rebroadcast a COTS streaming capability to an internal service for recording and viewing. Wowza was able to handle the routing and recording of these rtsp streams seamlessly.
Wowza it's a professional Streaming solution fitting our needs and at the right price
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza has a super stable service for every streaming dimension and allow us to cover all needs of our business.
It's easy to use, but also allows professional users to set streaming paramters in deep.
The platform is well documented and with a big community support.
It's easy to use, but also allows professional users to set streaming paramters in deep.
The platform is well documented and with a big community support.
What do you dislike about the product?
REST Api documentation it's a little bit poor, and api has a too short lifetime before deprecation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza allow us to manage a variety of business cases, from restricted streaming to a great number of contemporary user with a pricing policy very efficient
Stable, extensible and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
We use wowza streaming engine to stream RTSP streams to webRTC. Wowza peovides all that is needed to securely deliver webRTC streams. It is easy to use, and we are not streaming experts.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have written a custom plugins that is used by the steaming engine, it’s a tad bit difficult to develop them without the wowza IDE.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ultra low latency streams to webRTC browsers using WBRTC.
Very solid and reliable streaming service!
What do you like best about the product?
You get what you pay for, and we've never experienced any hiccups using Wowza
What do you dislike about the product?
Changing contact e-mail addresses can sometimes be a hassle, as organizational admin users are unavailable to change certain addresses themselves. Furthermore, we have not been able to change billing intervals from monthly to yearly ones, which would help save time and paperwork for many involved. These are minor gripes, however.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our need to provide lecture video streams to viewers both within and outside of our institution.
WSE Provides a Good Foundation for Production as Well as Enabling Business Models in Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of getting started and getting up and running. This has come in handy to just stand up a streaming ingest and reflection service in minutes. Once the basics are going, there is so much under the hood, between the API service and the support for virtualized servers to really allow you to tweak and tune to your particular needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not a dislike, it is just a "you should know." Once you start to get into tuning and customizing WSE, it does require a large cross section of skills to do as a one person show or a decent team working together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem statement is one of a streaming ingest point to a number of customers and then proper routing and delivery to a plethora of destinations, whether they be social or other player technologies.
Good streaming server for advanced users
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of using Wowza Streaming server is that is very flexible. It supports all formats and can transcode, resend a record livestreams. We have used it for many use cases. Both 24-7 streaming from fixed cameras to large OB productions from major sport events.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to setup and we miss a built-in transcoding for VOD.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Wowza Streamserver for specialized streaming solutions. Where normal streaming platforms have some limitations we can adjust all settings with Wowza.
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