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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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.
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
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.
Helped me transcode security camera feeds for wall boards and web page embedding
What do you like best about the product?
Fairly simple to setup and get web page capable feeds from rtsp camera feeds. I don't play around too much with multi-media streams, but wowza made it pretty simple to convert sources to formats I could stream on video walls and web pages.
Install the app on a server with access to your feeds, then add your feeds settings (protocol, etc) and the output you want....so it's fairly straight forward.
From there, it was pretty simple to embed into a web page using their JS library and get a feed that my android based device attached to a TV to stream the transcoded video.
Install the app on a server with access to your feeds, then add your feeds settings (protocol, etc) and the output you want....so it's fairly straight forward.
From there, it was pretty simple to embed into a web page using their JS library and get a feed that my android based device attached to a TV to stream the transcoded video.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be nice if I could test my settings immediately in the web app versus needing to jump to another program to test my settings. It could be inside their program already, but I didn't see it after some html player updates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed to be able to present security camera feeds to employees so they could see where customers were, and keep an eye on traffic.
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.
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
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.
PAYG streaming - quick, easy and affordable
What do you like best about the product?
We've used Wowza on and off for many years - the quality of the encoders and the recently updated FlowPlayer are pretty hard to beat, particularly at the price point (you can go down a fantastic rabbithole of customising FlowPlayer to match your site with the FlowPlayer add-ons)
Embedding is as simple as a line of code that is generated by the site when you create your stream (and all the encoding options get auto generated but are stil available to adjust as you see fit - nothing seems to be hidden away here!)
A great recent addition has been improving the speed of download on the saved stream footage - previously an 8-hour day would take almost an hour from request to actually starting a download. Now it's much quicker and I can't say how much more usable this has made Wowza (thank you, you've literally cut hours off our tunr-around times!)
Although the customer service times seem quite slow for PAYG customers, I've never had to wait that long to get help (and in 'critical' time sensitive matters they do seem to reply quickly)
Embedding is as simple as a line of code that is generated by the site when you create your stream (and all the encoding options get auto generated but are stil available to adjust as you see fit - nothing seems to be hidden away here!)
A great recent addition has been improving the speed of download on the saved stream footage - previously an 8-hour day would take almost an hour from request to actually starting a download. Now it's much quicker and I can't say how much more usable this has made Wowza (thank you, you've literally cut hours off our tunr-around times!)
Although the customer service times seem quite slow for PAYG customers, I've never had to wait that long to get help (and in 'critical' time sensitive matters they do seem to reply quickly)
What do you dislike about the product?
Over the past few years, every little annoyance seems to have been ironed out of the platform meaning that my dislike is a little bit of my impatience!
For the PAYG, it'd be nice if they had a tally of current charges outstanding on your account.
The prices for PAYG clearly displayed, they tell you how much data you've used each day but you need to work out the price yourself (I know, basic multiplication, but it'd be nice if they could add this into their fantastic platform
For the PAYG, it'd be nice if they had a tally of current charges outstanding on your account.
The prices for PAYG clearly displayed, they tell you how much data you've used each day but you need to work out the price yourself (I know, basic multiplication, but it'd be nice if they could add this into their fantastic platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Occasionally we need to run multiple streams over conflicting times meaning we run out of available streams on our main provider. Wowza's PAYG has a (seemingly) limitless amount of streams available, customising our FlowPlayer to look 'close enough' to our main streams is easy and to be completely honest, none of our end users could tell that we had 2 separate back-end services providing streams!
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