Wowza Streaming Engine (Linux PAID)
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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.
Wowza review
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.
Wowza is a no-issue streaming engine.
What do you like best about the product?
It’s a very reliable platform for both live streaming and VoD, offering a lot of flexibility for encoding, transcoding, and distributing videos. It supports a wide range of protocols—like HLS, RTMP, and WebRTC—along with its cloud integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wowza offers a lot of features, but this can make the setup process complex for new users who are not familiar with streaming technology. In our case - beginners felt that there is a steep learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wowza provides a scalable architecture that can handle both high volumes of viewers and large amounts of content. It supports dynamic bandwidth allocation and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR), ensuring that streams are delivered at optimal quality based on the viewer's internet connection and device capabilities.
Great product, easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
Lack of issues with the software allow it to be a seamless experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love it but could be a little more aesthetically pleasing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing an easy, user friendly experience for us and our clients.
LIve streaming events for over a decade
What do you like best about the product?
Self hosted, easy to install, setup and maintain. We have ran Wowza for over a decade streaming hundrends of events multiple times per month, in many different and sometimes remote locations!
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be more difficult to harden, running Java at its core can mean its resource intensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Self hosted live streaming for both internet and external use.
Very powerful streaming platform with dozen of possibilities of configurations.
What do you like best about the product?
Its flexibility to create various live streaming protocols.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its lack of better analytics and somewhat not clear logs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Wowza instaled on our own server, it is possible to choose to which CDN to deliver them.
Great web streaming solution with a few missing features
What do you like best about the product?
Wowza is great for streaming and offers many services for transmission of audio and video. The quality looks great and it was very easy for my client to embed on their website. Great back end with data.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no backup RTMP or failover if your primary stream goes down.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily embeddable streaming solution that can be white labeled.
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