Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
Wowza Media Systems, Inc. | 4.8.22Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2020 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Professional grade Streaming engine
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is a very robust platform for streaming. For both Live TV & VOD supports a wide range of protocol seamlessly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although they have a robust platform, their pricing modality sucks. In 2019, I purchased a perpetual license that doesn't support any latest patches. I'm somewhat forced to buy a support plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Raw feed transcoding & Ensuring Endmile delivery for OTT Streaming platform. Supports both headend & end-mile sections of a streaming platform.
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Wowza Streaming Engine
What do you like best about the product?
With Wowza Streaming Engine you can make live video and audio streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration with other technologies should be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It offers high-quality video and audio streaming across multiple platforms and devices.
Flexibility with the capability to work with any project.
What do you like best about the product?
High level of flexibility and not complex to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far I have yet to see any downside...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a web portal that people need to preview audio from and Wowza allows up to build and support that player.
Customisable and Secure Streaming Engine
What do you like best about the product?
It's capability in customisation according to it's customer's need is great. Specially when it comes to developer it has various options which are easy to build the solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the integration solution like flowplayer is bit complex and not as streamlined as it should be. Specially interatice playback feature is need to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza streaming engine is best when it comes to customisation. However it's other features of security and scalability is better in every aspect in this domain.
Extremely efficient and easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
It's very flexible. It can be used on various operating systems including Windows and Linux. I have used it along with Windows 2008 and 2012 over an intranet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike. But more information regarding analytics could help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It mainly helped my earlier organization in resolving intranet streaming quality issues.
Amazing streaming service
What do you like best about the product?
It's reliable with multiple custom options for streaming.
It's easy to understand and integrate any project architecture.
It has well documented and help availability
It's easy to understand and integrate any project architecture.
It has well documented and help availability
What do you dislike about the product?
I would recommend to have some more languages support so that it can be used by other development people who are comfortable working in just limited languages..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most common problem is getting a reliable service provider for streaming. So wowza proved to be reliable and easy to understand integration and this benefited integrating it easily.
Easy Setup Video Streaming Application
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza streaming is very easy to set up and Wowza media solutions provide tons of resources that help and guide how to use it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the help support will take a few days to reply to a raised ticket. But other than that I have not found anything to dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Wowza engine for live streaming of events and it has served my purpose for small scale viewership.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking to live stream content to a small audience then Wowza engine is the solution. You can deploy it on a cloud or on a local machine easily and there are a lot of support documents that help and guide you to do that.
Wowza Media Server is the Best
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using Wowza for Streaming for over a decade. The latest Wowza Streaming Engine is the best available so far. The web management feature is really good, there is no more messing around with config files like some of the older versions. This media engine serves just about all the formats that anyone would need, It is stable and a true work horse. If you ever have to ask for support they are on it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say there is a single thing that I do not like about this product. The only thing I would not like to see is is they get purchased by some big company. From what I can tell they focus on their streaming technologies and that is a good thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had to build an in house secure VOD system to sever thousands of videos that were over an hour long. Our front end is written in PHP and the whole system is authenticated through our LMS using LTI. It is secure and encrypted using StreamLink. The Streaming Engine is rock solid and the only time we need to touch it is to upgrade to a newer version.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to host your own streaming engine I would look no further than the Wowza media server. It is solid, fast, efficient , and easy to set up. Documentation is good and their support is stellar.
Useless Redhat Instance with no package upstream. DIY yourself.
Needed to fire an instance up for SRT development. only to find after wasting an hour trying to get gstreamer installed for seperate testing I could not get it installed. Redhat is like the worst Linux ever and terrible to manage. That bad I wasted time trying to install something that didn't exist as its upstream package rep is not in sync with anything else.
Going to have to DIY my own debian and use apt. At least I can install gstreamer without wasting time in my R&D phase being on a timer and all.
It is good
What do you like best about the product?
Full documentation
Great support
Reliable
Easy
Great support
Reliable
Easy
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes after update. Once. Got problem and roller back
I could not record incomming rtp streams wowza did not catch them and I looked for another solution
I find the API have a parrier of passage. Not one click lunch or something like this.
1 year support only for all life license makes no sence because updates all life will need support...
The log files take tooo much space over time and I am not sure I read about alert to put them somewhere not to fill the disk!
I could not record incomming rtp streams wowza did not catch them and I looked for another solution
I find the API have a parrier of passage. Not one click lunch or something like this.
1 year support only for all life license makes no sence because updates all life will need support...
The log files take tooo much space over time and I am not sure I read about alert to put them somewhere not to fill the disk!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Live streaming
Vod
Target to youtube
Vod
Target to youtube
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