Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux BYOL)
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Review for Wowza Video
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Video is a very easy platform for something that's very complicated quite often. The customer support is very helpful in times of need as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no downsides to the platform, it's very easy to use and super helpful for quality purposes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza has helped improve quality for Video Hosting's in general. It is very easy to work through and i'm super pleased with the platform.
A Decade and a Half with Wowza: A Testament to Excellence
What do you like best about the product?
I’ve been using Wowza Streaming Engine for over 10 years as part of my business. I sell live streaming services to clients around the world, some use it for church broadcasts, others for music events, or even 24/7 channels, and Wowza has always been the core of it all. What I really like is that it’s stable and reliable. Once it’s set up, it just runs.
That’s important when your clients depend on you and you can’t afford downtime. I also appreciate how flexible it is. I can configure it to fit different streaming setups and integrate it into my own system without being locked into some closed platform. It's not a toy, it's professional-grade, and it’s helped me make a living doing what I do.
That’s important when your clients depend on you and you can’t afford downtime. I also appreciate how flexible it is. I can configure it to fit different streaming setups and integrate it into my own system without being locked into some closed platform. It's not a toy, it's professional-grade, and it’s helped me make a living doing what I do.
What do you dislike about the product?
There’s one thing I really think needs improvement: the license system. As it stands, the license key isn’t tied to a specific IP or server, so if someone gets hold of it, like a hacker, they can use it on their own server. This actually happened to me once, and I ended up with a surprise invoice that wasn’t even from my usage. Thankfully, Wowza support helped me fix it, but still, I shouldn’t have to worry about that. It would make much more sense to allow customers to lock the license to their server IP through the dashboard, like other platforms do.
Also, for people new to streaming, Wowza can feel a bit overwhelming at first. There’s a learning curve. But once you get past that, it’s a powerhouse.
Also, for people new to streaming, Wowza can feel a bit overwhelming at first. There’s a learning curve. But once you get past that, it’s a powerhouse.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before I started using Wowza, delivering stable and high-quality live streams to multiple clients around the world was a constant headache. Streams would drop, formats wouldn’t work, and I had to spend hours troubleshooting. Wowza solved all of that. Now I can focus on running my business instead of fighting with technical issues.
It gives me a reliable platform that can handle everything my clients throw at it, from small live events to full-time streaming channels. I don’t worry about buffering or compatibility issues anymore. My clients stream, their viewers watch, and everything works.
The result? Fewer support tickets, happier customers, and more time for me to grow the business. It’s taken a lot of the pressure off, and that's been a big benefit both financially and in terms of peace of mind.
It gives me a reliable platform that can handle everything my clients throw at it, from small live events to full-time streaming channels. I don’t worry about buffering or compatibility issues anymore. My clients stream, their viewers watch, and everything works.
The result? Fewer support tickets, happier customers, and more time for me to grow the business. It’s taken a lot of the pressure off, and that's been a big benefit both financially and in terms of peace of mind.
Streaming Engine is the foundation of our network
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza Streaming Engine provided robust and dependable streaming output for our live sports network. We were able to install modules that customized file naming and insert ID3 data tags for embed score information.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support could be more accessible and available by phone. Luckily, we needed very little support over the years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The platform is quite good at transmuxing various resolutions and adaptable via JAVA for advanced functions such as insertion of ID3 tags.
We sell Wowza as an on-premises product.
What do you like best about the product?
There are many different streaming services on the Internet, and there is a lot of competition. Many local governments, factories, and production lines in Japan have networks that cannot be connected to the Internet, but WSE can also operate on closed networks. We sell Wowza appliance products to such environments. The product also comes bundled with YMW software for browser-based management and viewing, including a video platform, HTML5 player, and 360-degree panoramic video player. You can use Wowza directly.There are no products that can be guaranteed to work properly under these conditions.
What do you dislike about the product?
We want to perform stable, low-latency live performances in closed network environments such as factories. I would like to see WebRTC's WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol installed in WowzaVideo installed in WSE as well. RTMP has a lot of latency, so it is not suitable for ultra-low latency. WebRTC's browser encoder is not suitable for continuous and stable distribution. I want to sell appliance products that enhance low-latency live streaming.
The same goes for HTML5 streaming. Wowza confirmed that both 8K/HEVC and MPEG-DASH VOD can be viewed live on a Chrome browser, but HLS cannot be streamed as VOD and can only be streamed with CMAF-HLS LIVE. Moreover, the application is exclusive with MPEG-DASH. CMAF settings cannot be saved if edited using the manager. It is still under development. Nginx allows HEVC and VP9 VOD distribution with HLS. We are focusing on delivering 8K quality 360-degree panoramic videos. You can watch it using MetaQuest 3's standard browser, but I feel that Wowza's superiority is weakening.
It's been 13 years since we resold Wowza, but lately we've been feeling a great sense of crisis. I want you to try new challenges at WSE like before. Then, create a flow to expand to WowzaVideo. I would like to convey that the origin of WowzaVideo is WSE. New technology in cloud services has a lot to do with service quality and competitors. WSE can evaluate new technologies at the customer's responsibility. I believe that if we challenge ourselves with that idea, we will be able to promote WSE. Nowadays, prices are going up due to inflation, but the number of resales is not increasing. I think one of the reasons is the lack of innovative technology.
The same goes for HTML5 streaming. Wowza confirmed that both 8K/HEVC and MPEG-DASH VOD can be viewed live on a Chrome browser, but HLS cannot be streamed as VOD and can only be streamed with CMAF-HLS LIVE. Moreover, the application is exclusive with MPEG-DASH. CMAF settings cannot be saved if edited using the manager. It is still under development. Nginx allows HEVC and VP9 VOD distribution with HLS. We are focusing on delivering 8K quality 360-degree panoramic videos. You can watch it using MetaQuest 3's standard browser, but I feel that Wowza's superiority is weakening.
It's been 13 years since we resold Wowza, but lately we've been feeling a great sense of crisis. I want you to try new challenges at WSE like before. Then, create a flow to expand to WowzaVideo. I would like to convey that the origin of WowzaVideo is WSE. New technology in cloud services has a lot to do with service quality and competitors. WSE can evaluate new technologies at the customer's responsibility. I believe that if we challenge ourselves with that idea, we will be able to promote WSE. Nowadays, prices are going up due to inflation, but the number of resales is not increasing. I think one of the reasons is the lack of innovative technology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There is the issue of live streaming within a closed network. We bundle it with HPE products and sell it as an appliance product.
Local government employees can monitor council meetings from their personal computers. This is just one example.
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/wowza/
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/media360/
https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/customer-case-studies/servers-proliant-ymw.html
Problems can be solved by bundling WSE.
Local government employees can monitor council meetings from their personal computers. This is just one example.
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/wowza/
https://www.ymw.co.jp/streaming/media360/
https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/customer-case-studies/servers-proliant-ymw.html
Problems can be solved by bundling WSE.
Wowza Streaming Engine is the answer
What do you like best about the product?
There are very few audio-streaming options in the Mac world, and Wowza works excellent for us, and it scales well with lots of users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Custom solutions are relagated to coders, meaning basic end-users have to spend more money to get solutions, such as simple https links on all browsers for audio.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed an audio streaming platform that scales well with lots of users that is reliable and fast. For the Mac platform, there aren't a lot of options out there and Wowza works for us.
Wowza Streaming Enigne is very good for OTT platforms or video streaming engine.
What do you like best about the product?
Powerful and don't have any latency or delay at all.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am glad to use Wowza, there is not dislike about it absolutely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza Streaming Engine solved broadcasting of vide streaming easily in our platform.
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.
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.
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