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- Pro-quality live and on-demand video streaming
- Any media to any device
- Unlimited transcoding for adaptive bitrate streaming
- Flexible and customizable
on-demand videos. Whether deployed in the cloud or on-premises, you can leverage the powerful components and APIs of Wowza Streaming Engine to tailor streaming workflows with security and confidence
Any Media to Any Device
Anywhere, Simplified Wowza Streaming Engine accepts any video format and reliably delivers it in multiple formats and with the highest possible quality to any connected device, anywhere. Platform-agnostic, multi-format, and multi-screen, Wowza Streaming Engine accepts any video format and delivers content to the broadest range of player technologies and screens, including Adobe® Flash® Player; Microsoft® Silverlight® player; Apple® iPhone® , iPad® , iPod touch® , and QuickTime® player; Android™ smartphones and tablets; a variety of smart TVs; and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes.
Flexibility and Control
Every organization has unique needs and requirements, which makes one-size-fits-all streaming solutions too limiting. Dedicated, customizable, and extensible, Wowza Streaming Engine software integrates with third-party systems and includes powerful components, called AddOns, and APIs that let you build solutions that grow and adapt to your evolving streaming needs.
Engaging View Experiences
Wowza Streaming Engine provides tools to that let you enhance your audience’s viewing experience and maximize your reach as a content publisher. You can offer viewers DVR-like features such as play, pause, and rewind; include closed captioning for hearing-impaired viewers; reach global audiences by offering audio in a choice of languages; and offer immersive surround-sound audio.
High Performance and Scalability
Wowza Streaming Engine is multi-threaded software that delivers live and on-demand streaming from standard on-site hardware or through the cloud, letting you make the most of your hardware, networking, and other resources. You can scale out live and on-demand streaming across large regions and audiences, push live video to content delivery networks (CDNs), and choose from unicast or multicast transmission.
Multiple Levels of Content Security
Wowza Streaming Engine offers a wide variety of security options so that you can protect your streams, networks, and audio and video assets. Choices range from standard support for Flash RTMP encrypted streams and HLS AES-128 protection to studio-approved Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Streaming Delivery: Multi-Protocol, Multi-Client
| Adobe Flash® RTMP (RTMPE, RTMPT, RTMPTE, RTMPS) Adobe Flash HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) | Flash Player Adobe® AIR® RTMP-compatible players HDS-compatible players |
| Apple® HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) | iPhone®, iPod®, iPad® (iOS 3.0 or later) QuickTime® Player (10.0 or later) Safari® (4.0 or later on Mac OS X version 10.6) Roku® streaming devices Other HLS-compatible players |
| MPEG-DASH | DASH-HEVC/265, DASH-AVC/264, and DASH-WebM/VP9 |
| Microsoft® Smooth Streaming | Silverlight® 3 or later Other Smooth Streaming-compatible players |
| RTSP/RTP | Quicktime Player Other RTSP/RTP-compliant players VideoLAN VLC media player 3GPP-compatible mobile devices |
| MPEG2 Transport Protocol (MPEG-TS) | IPTV set-top boxes Multicast to any Silverlight-enabled desktop |
Live Streaming: Compatible Encoding Inputs
| RTMP | Video: H.264, VP8, VP6, Sorenson Spark®, Screen Video v1 & v2 Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex, Opus, Vorbis |
| RTSP/RTP | Video: H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8 Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex, Opus, Vorbis |
| MPEG-TS | Video: H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8 Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, AC-3 (Dolby® Digital), E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus), Opus, Vorbis |
| ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast) | Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3 |
Video-on-Demand Streaming: Supported File Formats
| Video and audio | FLV (Flash Video—.flv) MP4 (QuickTime container—.mp4, .f4v, .mov, .m4v, .mp4a, .3gp, & .3g2) .ismv, .isma MP3 (.mp3) |
Protocols and Payloads: Applicable Transport Protocol and Payload Specifications
| RTSP | IETF RFC2326 |
| RTP: H.264 | IETF RFC3984, QuickTime generic RTP payload format |
| RTP: AAC | IETF RFC3640 IETF RFC3016 ISO/IEC 14496-3 |
| RTP: MP3 | IETF RFC2250 |
| MPEG-TS | ISO/IEC 13818-1 |
| MPEG-TS over RTP | IETF RFC2038 |
System Requirements
| Minimum recommended production hardware | CPU: Single quad core, 3.00 GHz or better RAM: 4GB Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping) Network: 1Gbps Ethernet |
| High-load recommended production hardware | CPU: Dual quad-core or a single hex-core, 3.00 GHz or better RAM: 16-32GB Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping) Network: 10Gbps Ethernet |
| Supported operating systems | Windows® (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10; Server 2003, 2008, 2012) Linux (all distributions Mac® OS X 10.8 or later |
| Java (required) | Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8+ or Java Development Kit (JDK) 8+ |
Transcoder
| Decoding (inputs) | Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MPEG4 Part 2, MPEG2, VP9, VP8 Audio: MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MPEG1 Part 1/2, Speex, G.711 |
| Encoding (outputs) | Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, H.263 (v2), VP9 Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, Opus, G.711 |
nDVR
| Live stream caching and playout | Single content cache for simultaneous playout to Flash HDS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Apple HLS clients |
| Live stream time-shifting | Pause, rewind, fast-forward, return to live |
DRM
| Third-party key-management services | BuyDRM™, Verimatrix®, and EZDRM |
| Encryption services ++ Inc. Common Encryption for MPEG-DASH | BuyDRM: Microsoft PlayReady® ++ Verimatrix: Verimatrix® VCAS™ ++, Microsoft® PlayReady® EZDRM: Microsoft PlayReady® |
| Live and on-demand clients PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone Game consoles, set-top boxes, smart TVs | BuyDRM: BuyDRM players and Smooth Streaming clients Verimtarix: ViewRight® web clients and Smooth Streaming clients EZDRM Live: Smooth Streaming clients EZDRM VOD: Discretix SecurePlayer™ and Smooth Streaming clients (note: EZDRM does not support iOS or Android) |
Wowza Streaming Engine™ Perpetual Pro Edition is a lifetime license available for a one-time payment, and includes
- Unlimited connections for one server
- Unlimited Wowza™ Transcoder channels, nDVR, and DRM
- One year of maintenance and support
Maintenance and support provides technical support, updates, upgrades, and bug fixes. Internet connection required for license verification. Offline keys are available upon request.
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