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Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)

Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.9.0

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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3 AWS reviews

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31 reviews
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    Telecommunications

Overall positive experience with Wowza Streaming Engine.

  • August 23, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Reliable streaming engine with smooth performance, customizable options, and excellent scalability for live and on-demand streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface not user friendly, initial setup is complex for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming Engine solves the challenge of delivering high-quality, low-latency video streams to a global audience.


    Facilities Services

The System Integrators dream!

  • August 21, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    Michal K.

Good for Internet / lacks support for legacy systems

  • August 20, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Works well with internet codecs, I like the multiplatformity, quite stable for long run.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lacking legacy codecs (MPEG1 audio, MPEG2, H.264 CBR). Config thru XML is somehow complex. Java has some limitation on Windows servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
provides access to my media files thru "streaming" (mostly thru HLS)


    Cristian C.

"Wowza Video: La Solución Definitiva para Transmisiones en Vivo Escalables y de Baja Latencia"

  • June 07, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Lo que más me gusta de Wowza Video es su combinación de escalabilidad, baja latencia y flexibilidad. Su infraestructura robusta asegura transmisiones fluidas y sin interrupciones, incluso a gran escala. Además, la capacidad de ofrecer transmisión de baja latencia es ideal para eventos en vivo y aplicaciones interactivas, proporcionando una experiencia casi instantánea para los espectadores.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costo: Wowza Video puede resultar costoso, especialmente para pequeñas empresas o proyectos individuales. Sería beneficioso ofrecer opciones de precios más accesibles o escalables para diferentes tipos de usuarios y presupuestos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Video puede manejar grandes volúmenes de tráfico y eventos a gran escala sin comprometer el rendimiento. Esto es especialmente beneficioso para negocios que experimentan niveles variables de demanda de espectadores, asegurando una experiencia de transmisión fluida sin importar el tamaño de la audiencia.


    Marcello M.

Good and complete streaming engine. Supports the needs of my software

  • March 05, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

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.


    Adnan A.

It was nice

  • March 05, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The transcoders for any camera to get your format
What do you dislike about the product?
The support is not real time, you have to wait and there is no chatting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Get the stream from h265 camera video encode and transfer it to h264 to use in webrtc


    Non-Profit Organization Management

Install Latest version of WOWZA on Linux

  • February 29, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
performance and stability, and allow stream video within local network
What do you dislike about the product?
slower response on latest 4.8.26+4 on Stream Target page display (After click enable or disable stream target)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
(internal network) Local broadcast before stream to youtube. Control security and content right


    Dennis J.

Streaming Engine is the foundation of our network

  • December 19, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine provided robust and dependable streaming output for our live sports network. We were able to install modules that customized file naming and insert ID3 data tags for embed score information.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support could be more accessible and available by phone. Luckily, we needed very little support over the years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform is quite good at transmuxing various resolutions and adaptable via JAVA for advanced functions such as insertion of ID3 tags.


    Tomoaki I.

We sell Wowza as an on-premises product.

  • December 08, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
There are many different streaming services on the Internet, and there is a lot of competition. Many local governments, factories, and production lines in Japan have networks that cannot be connected to the Internet, but WSE can also operate on closed networks. We sell Wowza appliance products to such environments. The product also comes bundled with YMW software for browser-based management and viewing, including a video platform, HTML5 player, and 360-degree panoramic video player. You can use Wowza directly.There are no products that can be guaranteed to work properly under these conditions.
What do you dislike about the product?
We want to perform stable, low-latency live performances in closed network environments such as factories. I would like to see WebRTC's WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol installed in WowzaVideo installed in WSE as well. RTMP has a lot of latency, so it is not suitable for ultra-low latency. WebRTC's browser encoder is not suitable for continuous and stable distribution. I want to sell appliance products that enhance low-latency live streaming.
The same goes for HTML5 streaming. Wowza confirmed that both 8K/HEVC and MPEG-DASH VOD can be viewed live on a Chrome browser, but HLS cannot be streamed as VOD and can only be streamed with CMAF-HLS LIVE. Moreover, the application is exclusive with MPEG-DASH. CMAF settings cannot be saved if edited using the manager. It is still under development. Nginx allows HEVC and VP9 VOD distribution with HLS. We are focusing on delivering 8K quality 360-degree panoramic videos. You can watch it using MetaQuest 3's standard browser, but I feel that Wowza's superiority is weakening.
It's been 13 years since we resold Wowza, but lately we've been feeling a great sense of crisis. I want you to try new challenges at WSE like before. Then, create a flow to expand to WowzaVideo. I would like to convey that the origin of WowzaVideo is WSE. New technology in cloud services has a lot to do with service quality and competitors. WSE can evaluate new technologies at the customer's responsibility. I believe that if we challenge ourselves with that idea, we will be able to promote WSE. Nowadays, prices are going up due to inflation, but the number of resales is not increasing. I think one of the reasons is the lack of innovative technology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is the issue of live streaming within a closed network. We bundle it with HPE products and sell it as an appliance product.
Local government employees can monitor council meetings from their personal computers. This is just one example.
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/wowza/
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/media360/
https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/customer-case-studies/servers-proliant-ymw.html
Problems can be solved by bundling WSE.


    Cédric Jack J.

Stable and reliable Live-streaming Service.

  • September 14, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
simple: it is working. everytime when we had problems with other services and the Backup was Wowza - it was working. Try to convince every client to Stream via wowza.
What do you dislike about the product?
would like to have a little bit more statistics about the viewer. more possibility to customiz the hosted page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
stable and reliable. Security apsects.