Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
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Powerfull,Reliable and Scalable streaming platform
What do you like best about the product?
Low-Latency streaming
Multi-protocol support
Single management Console
Can deep customization and integration with the third-party applications.
Have a smooth Playback.
Customer support is highly satisfying.
Easy to implement and use.
Multi-protocol support
Single management Console
Can deep customization and integration with the third-party applications.
Have a smooth Playback.
Customer support is highly satisfying.
Easy to implement and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
High performance streaming may require significant server resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When using other products latency will be high but, in this platform, it has low latency.
This product support multi-devices so we can easily use this.
And also, it is secure for streaming.
This product support multi-devices so we can easily use this.
And also, it is secure for streaming.
It is a good streaming system
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, easy to manage, and very efficient. They are constantly releasing updates to improve its performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe it needs better documentation and support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza allows us to send live broadcasts to various platforms with a fairly simple configuration and administration. A simple interface to control, with a lot of versatility and options to optimize the resources of the transmission and the hardware needed for live broadcasts, both incoming and outgoing.
A reliable and effective streaming software
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, connectivity with various encoders and CDN platforms, flexibility and variety of streaming protocols and formats.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have an out-of-the-box solution for delivering the video, like a player or webpage you can deliver your streaming to the public.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can send my streaming to a single source and from their distribute it to various platforms, like YouTube, Facebook, RTMP player, website etc.
Wowza is the streaming engine that just makes sense, it gives no headaches, no issues, just results.
What do you like best about the product?
The amount possibilities, Wowza’s API gives us the flexibility to integrate with Amazon S3 for storage and Wowza CDN for reliable, high-quality streaming. As a streaming company, we rely on it to keep everything running smoothly without hassle. We can't see another competitor offering the same as Wowza provides to our company.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a heavy wowza user I don't have much to complain, our company gets what we pay for, but I would say that the pricing structure could be more accommodating for startups and smaller organizations. Luckily our company can cover the bills just fine, but I can't see how that would apply for smaller companies with less budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a livestreaming company serving 700 customers, we heavily depends on Wowza Streaming Engine and Wowza CDN to power our operations reliably. The biggest problem Wowza solves for us is providing a stable, scalable, and feature-rich platform that eliminates the need for extensive in-house development.
Without Wowza, we’d have to build a custom streaming infrastructure from scratch, which would be costly, time-consuming, and require constant maintenance. Instead, we leverage Wowza’s powerful API to automate key processes like recording, scheduling, and content delivery
Without Wowza, we’d have to build a custom streaming infrastructure from scratch, which would be costly, time-consuming, and require constant maintenance. Instead, we leverage Wowza’s powerful API to automate key processes like recording, scheduling, and content delivery
I inherited the WOWZA account at work
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it is a pure streaming service and not something affiliated with social media/major online companies, etc. I'm not an expert and was able to figure out how to use it with OBS software pretty quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm just a digital generalist, not a video expert, so I have nothing to compare WOWZA to. So no complaints.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We host free live events and like to stream them as well.
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.
Great product and customer service
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is ready to use, reliable, and their customer service is prompt and useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really. It's a great streaming service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I need a way to distribute or stream to our website as well as to Roku. Wowza allows us to do that easily.
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.
Wowza review
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to set up and use but allows a wide range of customization.
There are plenty of Java plugins for Wowza, and it is quite easy to write your own.
Other systems can easily integrate with Wowza.
It is market standard so it is tested on many devices and problems with streaming even strange ones are rare and rather easily solvable.
There are plenty of Java plugins for Wowza, and it is quite easy to write your own.
Other systems can easily integrate with Wowza.
It is market standard so it is tested on many devices and problems with streaming even strange ones are rare and rather easily solvable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza does not support new streaming technology like AV1.
It does not fully support subtitles for live channels (doable, but requires quite a work and not standard solutions)
Tickets created by support are not visible to the client, so we often report something and have to check if it is implemented in the new version, without proper information from the Wowza team.
It does not fully support subtitles for live channels (doable, but requires quite a work and not standard solutions)
Tickets created by support are not visible to the client, so we often report something and have to check if it is implemented in the new version, without proper information from the Wowza team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streaming live TV for users.
Wowza is a no-issue streaming engine.
What do you like best about the product?
It’s a very reliable platform for both live streaming and VoD, offering a lot of flexibility for encoding, transcoding, and distributing videos. It supports a wide range of protocols—like HLS, RTMP, and WebRTC—along with its cloud integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza offers a lot of features, but this can make the setup process complex for new users who are not familiar with streaming technology. In our case - beginners felt that there is a steep learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza provides a scalable architecture that can handle both high volumes of viewers and large amounts of content. It supports dynamic bandwidth allocation and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR), ensuring that streams are delivered at optimal quality based on the viewer's internet connection and device capabilities.
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