Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
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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.
Works as Advertised
What do you like best about the product?
Quality, no glitches. Lots of options and encoding possibilities
What do you dislike about the product?
Can get expensive if you are used to You Tube free methods. However, price points are very manageable of you plan you usage carefully.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to have embedded behind a paywall for special events
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.
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.
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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.
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