Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
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Reliable audiobook streaming solution for students
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming has been a dependable platform for delivering our audiobook content to students. The streaming quality is consistent, with minimal buffering, even for large audio files. Its integration options and scalability made it easy to expand our library and serve more listeners without disruptions. The platform’s stability and flexibility have been key to providing a smooth learning experience."
What do you dislike about the product?
While Wowza Streaming works well for our audiobook use case, the initial setup required a steep learning curve, especially for configuring optimal audio-only streaming settings. The documentation is detailed but can feel overwhelming for new users. But Worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Wowza Streaming to deliver high-quality, real-time audio book streaming for students. It ensures reliable, low-latency playback regardless of device or location, helping us provide uninterrupted access to educational content. This improves learning accessibility, reduces the need for physical media, and supports remote and on-demand education delivery.
A reliable media distribution solution
What do you like best about the product?
Snerpa has been using Wowza for years. What we appreciate most is that it is very stable and once set up you can literally forget about it. We use Wowza to distribute video streams from our live webcams as can be seen here. https://www.snerpa.is/allt_hitt/vefmyndavelar/
What do you dislike about the product?
Well, you have to read the fine manual ...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Distributing live streams for multiple users.
Wowza Delivers Seamless Streaming Performance
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming stands out for its flexibility and reliability. I appreciate how it supports a wide range of streaming protocols (HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve can be steep, especially for users who are new to streaming technologies. While the platform is powerful, setting up advanced features like adaptive bitrate streaming or custom transcoding profiles requires technical knowledge and time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming helps us deliver high-quality, low-latency video to a global audience reliably and securely. Before using Wowza, we struggled with stream buffering, latency issues, and lack of protocol support
One of the best streaming solutions on the market
What do you like best about the product?
Honestly, Wowza just works. Once you get it set up, it's incredibly reliable for live streams and on-demand video, handling everything from small events to 24/7 channels without breaking a sweat. It plays nicely with any device or browser, which is a huge relief. I also love the flexibility - whether you run it on your own servers or use their cloud, and the APIs are great for integrating into custom setups. Plus, scaling up doesn't mean paying per stream, which saves us serious money.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting started can be rough - the setup is pretty complex, especially if you're new to streaming. The interface feels a bit dated, especially on mobile, and the licensing has a quirk: your license key isn't locked to your server IP by default, which could let someone else use it (happened to me once - support fixed it, but it was stressful). Direct support also costs extra, and overall, it’s pricey for smaller teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solved our biggest headaches: unreliable streams, buffering, and format issues. Now, we deliver smooth, high-quality video globally without constant troubleshooting. This means happier viewers, fewer support tickets, and more time to focus on growing our business instead of fixing tech fires. For us, it’s all about peace of mind and scalability.
Reliable Platform for No/Low-Latency Video Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming is an excellent platform for seamless integration with web applications. We have successfully used it to enable live video streaming from medical devices to the cloud in real-time. This has allowed medical practitioners to view live videos from anywhere, ensuring accessibility and convenience. The platform delivers on its promise of low or no latency, which is critical for real-time applications, especially in the medical field. Overall, it is a reliable and robust platform for live video streaming.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the platform performs exceptionally well, the integration documentation could be improved. Clearer and more detailed documentation would make the setup process smoother and reduce the learning curve for developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza addresses the challenge of delivering real-time video streams with minimal latency. This is especially critical for applications like medical device video streaming, where delays can impact decision-making and outcomes.
Good to start wowza for all
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful feature is distributing the streaming engines to use and envolve how we can manage the media load according to the situation. Meanwhile i also use wowza as it having good streamline with encryption keys and java managable that its security and privacy.
What do you dislike about the product?
as one of the major factor its user interface , gui complexity and old design to reform the analysis of streaming also installation and configurations are advance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
is its high slowness and poor streaming media functionality and its workflow to work and utilize the media buffering and live tv channels
Great documentation and responsive stream
What do you like best about the product?
As a small company with limited resources we tried alternatives that could not come close to what Wowza offers. It starts with the documentation which is well written and includes very helpful details. When comparing it to other services, it outperformed by a huge margin. The response time is incredible fast and the videos have hardly any loading time until they play.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation had old content included which we could not use and this could be documented a bit better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Wowza internally for meetings and as a video resource for applications. Furthermore, we hold live streams on the website for tutorials and marketing.
We have been utilizing Wowza video for several years
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive user interface and consistent up time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inability to integrate Google Analytics using Wowza Video without Wowza Stream Engine. The currently available analytics baked in are limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reaching a wide audience through streaming. Provides lots of flexibility.
The interface is intuitive, simple and powerful.
What do you like best about the product?
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What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Live broadcast can push multiple streams. Convenient and fast
Solid Streaming Powerhouse
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine has truly transformed the way we handle live streaming. It's incredibly robust and manages high-quality streams effortlessly. The low-latency performance is quite remarkable, and it integrates smoothly with various protocols, which adds to its versatility. However, I have to say, setting it up isn’t the simplest task—it definitely calls for some technical expertise. Still, if you're on the lookout for a dependable, professional-grade streaming solution, Wowza is absolutely worth the investment. Just be ready to tackle a bit of a learning curve!
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing can be a bit high for smaller setups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To run our VOD setup seamlessly, it's been doing an incredible job for over a year.
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