Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
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Wowza Streaming - GoTo Choice for High-Quality
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine is dependable and adaptable streaming engine that provides high quality live and ondemand content across an variety of devices. Whether you are conducting a corporate webcast and a live event, or an OTT platform. It has a variety of capabilities to make streaming easy.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
1.Supports numarous protocols, including HLS, RTMP, WebRTC, and MPEG-DASH, making it extremely adaptable.
2.Scales well for both small and high traffic broadcasts.
3.Realtime interactions benefit from low latency streaming.
4.Security measures such as DRM, token authentication and encryption safeguard .
5.Customizable: Works on prem or in the cloud, with robust API support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup might be challenging for new users, so be prepared for a learning curve. This is not most cost effective choice and especially for smaller-scale applications. Web RTC ultra low latency requires further settings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compatibility across several devices and platforms.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
Issue: Streaming to numerous device (smartphones, tablets, smart TVs) via different protocols might be challenging.
Wowza supports various streaming protocols nad including HLS, RTMP, Web RTC, and MPEG DASH for smooth multimedia delivery to any device.
Latency Challenges in Live Streaming
Issue: Realtime interaction - (sports, gaming and live events) experience latency issues.
Wowza provides low and ultra low latency streaming alternatives, including Web RTC compatibility for realtime encounters.
It provides low latency high quality video streaming with bitrate adjustments.
What do you like best about the product?
It is best solution for CCTV live streaming with various CCTV brands, which provides highly video transmissions features for clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
The implementation cost is very and more technical knowledge is required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had a requirement to stream Live video streaming for different brand of cctv , Wowza was able to provide that feature and fulfilled the requirement with low latency video experiance.
Hassle free way to stream
What do you like best about the product?
Fast and easy way to stream
Secure way to stream
Integration with various apps for streaming
Secure way to stream
Integration with various apps for streaming
What do you dislike about the product?
Licensing mechanism should be more streamline
Please introduce a channel base business model
Please introduce a channel base business model
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This make my job easy to stream my contents to mobiles.
Power house for Video Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza offers single console management for Metadata Management, Video Clipping, Auto Captioning and for Permissions & Access which makes it easy to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up wowza requires more technical ability compared to other platforms. Also deploying wowza on prem requires heavy resources which can be costly. Wowza is more suited for SMB market since it is bit more price heavy than the other solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Wowza we can get low latency streaming which benefits us for live interactive events. Also Wowza is compatible with multiple device bitrate streaming and multiple formats such as DASH, WebRTC, HLS, RTMP. Also Wowza helps us customize the platform as for our need and built streaming applications as per our requirement.
High quality video transmission solution with low latancy
What do you like best about the product?
Wowzah provides cloud based and on-prem-based live video transmission features, and the quality will be adjusted according to the bit rate, which is a best feature. Customer support is very high quality.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial deployment process requires a high technical knowledge and takes more time to deploy the on-premises setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of our customers had requirements to transmit their factory CCTV traffic to their head office premises, there were 75 security cameras on their factory side. We had to transmit the huge CCTV Live stream traffic to their head office monitoring team. Wowza was able to successfully fulfil this requirement.
consistent high quality, manual and document are well maintained and easy to find new function
What do you like best about the product?
easily transcode from RTMP to HLS (h.264) and robustly works over EC2 so we can easily and consistently provide LIVE streaming service. without Wowza, we can not provide our service.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
basic and essential as infrastructure of LIVE origin server.
What do you dislike about the product?
The DVR feature has a serious bug (CPU/memory usage gradually increases and eventually system crashes) when using Wowza for long DVR HLS live streaming of 21 video streams and is still unresolved after reporting it to wowza 5 years ago!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
How to transcode function from RTMP to HLS with low cost and high consistency and stability.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
We can focus on other problems by delegate transcode function to Wowza.
Stream target function is very helpful and adaptable for various client specific needs and conditions of LIVE venue.
Wowza can work over EC2 with GPU, it provide us very high performance consistently with easy access.
Reliable performance from an intermediate user
What do you like best about the product?
I was able to setup a specialized local streaming capability within my organization using wowza documentation and forum posts with very little hassle or troubleshooting needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the more technical elements of the software were way over my head. The good news is wowza has people who can assist with this stuff!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to rebroadcast a COTS streaming capability to an internal service for recording and viewing. Wowza was able to handle the routing and recording of these rtsp streams seamlessly.
Stable, extensible and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
We use wowza streaming engine to stream RTSP streams to webRTC. Wowza peovides all that is needed to securely deliver webRTC streams. It is easy to use, and we are not streaming experts.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have written a custom plugins that is used by the steaming engine, it’s a tad bit difficult to develop them without the wowza IDE.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ultra low latency streams to webRTC browsers using WBRTC.
Very solid and reliable streaming service!
What do you like best about the product?
You get what you pay for, and we've never experienced any hiccups using Wowza
What do you dislike about the product?
Changing contact e-mail addresses can sometimes be a hassle, as organizational admin users are unavailable to change certain addresses themselves. Furthermore, we have not been able to change billing intervals from monthly to yearly ones, which would help save time and paperwork for many involved. These are minor gripes, however.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our need to provide lecture video streams to viewers both within and outside of our institution.
Good streaming server for advanced users
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of using Wowza Streaming server is that is very flexible. It supports all formats and can transcode, resend a record livestreams. We have used it for many use cases. Both 24-7 streaming from fixed cameras to large OB productions from major sport events.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to setup and we miss a built-in transcoding for VOD.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Wowza Streamserver for specialized streaming solutions. Where normal streaming platforms have some limitations we can adjust all settings with Wowza.
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