Wowza Streaming Reviews & Product Details

The best thing that I like is that the flexibility to add our custom code so that we override some of the functions and achieve some output in a different or customised way. For example extracting the HLS, CMAF chunks using their PushPublishHTTPCupertino class so that we can easily upload these chunks to S3 or whatever storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most irritating part is when we reach out to their customer support. Even for a simple issue they keep asking all the config and log files for review. But I don't know if they really spend to review all these files or if they really use these files to reproduce the issue on their side. Basically, dealing with their support person sometimes really becomes tedious. Also it is really difficult to convince them about the bug that we identify in Wowza. Another thing is sometimes it happens that with their new releases they keep adding the bugs in a workflow, which was working fine in their previous versions and that becomes really frustrating. And they keep insisting us to upgrade to their latest versions, which is not possible everytime when we have it running in the production systems. Every now and them we can not spend time to test their latest versions and push it to production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used Wowza Streaming to manage access to our subscriber-only videos, both for live masterclasses and streaming broadcasts.

We particularly appreciated the numerous configuration options, including the creation of secure links to allow only authorized users to view the content. It is a comprehensive solution that allows for the management of both live streams and streaming content, making it ready-to-use and suitable for different purposes.

As with any system of this type, a bit of time investment is required initially for installation and configuration. But once in place, we did not encounter any particular problems: the operation remained stable and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

An added benefit would be the ability to perform automatic updates, as doing them manually takes a bit of time and requires a minimum of know-how. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using Wowza Streaming Engine at our company for 11 years now. With the myriad of things that can go wrong with live streaming - I can't think of a single instance where the issue was trace routed back to Wowza Streaming Engine. Amongst the myriad of variables - from live stream operator knowledge, internet hiccups and outages, gear malfunctions, CDN node outages and the variables that want to play interference with a successful live stream - I can whole heartedly say Wowza is bottom of the barrel in the "blame game". Admittedly we are ona fairly old version of Wowza Streaming Engine as we believe in "if it's not broke don't fix it" and it's been overwhelming solid. We use the software hosted on Azure VM's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it takes a while to load all the way, and navigate around in the interface - even on a smoking Azure VM. That said - as we use an older version of Wowza Streaming Engine - this could have been fixed eons ago. Ultimately it's nothing cripping by any stretch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Wowza Streaming for delivering reliable live streaming services across multiple devices and platforms, which helps us manage and distribute streaming content efficiently. During our upgrade, the platform's support team was very helpful, and the process was smooth and easy. I like how reliable the streaming platform is, offering good performance and flexibility. The support or customer service is great, as they are very helpful whenever something goes wrong. They successfully helped us with a folder mismatch issue during an upgrade, providing clear communication that was very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some configurations are complex and require technical knowledge, especially during setup and upgrade. Initially, it was very difficult to understand after setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wowza is a solid, capable platform for delivering streaming to our customers, and it handles our day to day needs well. It gets the core job done reliably, and it's clear the product keeps maturing over time, with steady improvements showing up along the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation is a real weak spot, especially around High Availability. When we were setting up HA, we struggled to find any real guidance. There was no clear documentation explaining how Wowza actually behaves in an HA setup, so we ended up piecing it together ourselves through trial and error. I'd also love to see Wowza invest in publicly available training videos, something like a full walkthrough of setting the product up from scratch, plus other common scenarios people run into. If resources like that existed, I think more people would feel confident deploying the product instead of getting stuck early.

Troubleshooting is another pain point. Wowza typically runs on a VM, and when something goes wrong it's genuinely hard to investigate quickly. If you open a support ticket, by the time someone responds the issue has often already gone away on its own, so you're left waiting for it to happen again just to grab logs and dig into what's going on.

We also had a couple of issues that never got a real resolution. Support offered workarounds, try this, try that, but we never actually landed on a root cause. There are still a fair number of bugs in the product, though it does feel like it's maturing over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using Wowza Streaming Engine for many years and for our self-hosted live stream it has been a robust and stable solution with no performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First time setup was not easy, but we had our live stream working within a day using the provided easy to follow documentation.

Upgrading Wowza Streaming Engine with the various Java updates and installing the Streamlock certificate was a challenge, but the one and only time I contacted Wowza support the issue was sorted out within 24hrs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use wowza streaming for over 15 years in production and it is working very stable and live streaming is working on all platforms without any problems all that time. Now we have 3 physical servers and largest live stream on one server was with over 2.000 concurrent clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have sometimes lot's of concurrent live streams with small number of clients (up to 100) and we are still looking for smooth solution on how to do load balancing all this streams over 3 physical servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High reliability, simple usage. I know I can rely on it to work for most customers without having to do lots of technical support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It feels like it's behind the times on features. YouTube has been able to do inline DVR forever, but I still can't do this on my streams. I'd love to be able to allow for customers to rewind to earlier in the day, even if it's only an hour or so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is configurable via xml files and runs on a linux platform.

It provides reliable streams at medium and low usage levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The in-place software upgrade is awful. It can result in broken features as old configuration files are not parsed for deprecated or removed settings/syntax and other aspects of on disk storage are not updated to match the expectation of the new software version. Files and directories are named very poorly during the upgrade. Lots of manually discover or repair is required.

Under heavy load the entire server can crash with a out of memory error. There is no obvious attempt to mitigate this problem; all your streams die. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.