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Alternatives to Wowza

NGINX, Kurento, Ant Media Server, OBS Studio, and Mux Video are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Wowza.
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What is Wowza and what are its top alternatives?

It offers a customizable live streaming platform to build, deploy and manage high-quality video, live and on-demand. It powers professional-grade streaming for any use case and any device.
Wowza is a tool in the Video Streaming category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Wowza

  • NGINX
    NGINX

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...

  • Kurento
    Kurento

    It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more. ...

  • Ant Media Server
    Ant Media Server

    It is streaming engine software that provides adaptive, ultra low latency streaming by using WebRTC technology with ~0.5 seconds latency. It is both horizontally and vertically scalable. It can run on-premise or on-cloud. ...

  • OBS Studio
    OBS Studio

    It is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. It is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs. It supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more. ...

  • Mux Video
    Mux Video

    It is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make the beautiful video possible for every development team. ...

  • Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
    Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

    Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), and other processing. Kinesis Video Streams automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices. It also durably stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your streams, and allows you to access your data through easy-to-use APIs. ...

  • Bitmovin
    Bitmovin

    It provides adaptive streaming infrastructure for video publishers and integrators. Fastest cloud encoding and HTML5 Player, play Video Anywhere. ...

  • api.video
    api.video

    api.video is an API-first platform which enables developers to build, scale and operate on-demand and live video streaming in their own apps and platforms in minutes, with just a few lines of code. ...

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    Load balancer
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    Scalability
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    Web server
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    Simplicity
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    Easy setup
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    The best of them
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    Supports http/2
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    Enterprise version
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    Great Community
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    Lots of Modules
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    High perfomance proxy server
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    Streaming media delivery
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    Reversy Proxy
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    Streaming media
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    Embedded Lua scripting
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    GRPC-Web
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    Lightweight
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    Fast and easy to set up
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We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.

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We switched to Traefik so we can use the REST API to dynamically configure subdomains and have the ability to redirect between multiple servers.

We still use nginx with a docker-compose to expose the traffic from our APIs and TCP microservices, but for managing routing to the internet Traefik does a much better job

The biggest win for naologic was the ability to set dynamic configurations without having to restart the server

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Kurento

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    Ant Media Server

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        OBS Studio

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            Mux Video

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                Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

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                    We would like to connect a number of (about 25) video streams, from an Amazon S3 bucket containing video data to endpoints accessible to a Docker image, which, when run, will process the input video streams and emit some JSON statistics.

                    The 25 video streams should be synchronized. Could people share their experiences with a similar scenario and perhaps offer advice about which is better (Wowza, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams) for this kind of problem, or why they chose one technology over the other?

                    The video stream duration will be quite long (about 8 hours each x 25 camera sources). The 25 video streams will have no audio component. If you worked with a similar problem, what was your experience with scaling, latency, resource requirements, config, etc.?

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                    Bitmovin

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                        We want to make a live streaming platform demo to show off our video compression technology.

                        Simply put, we will stream content from 12 x 4K cameras ——> to an edge server(s) containing our compression software ——> either to Bitmovin or Wowza ——> to a media player.

                        What we would like to know is, is one of the above streaming engines more suited to multiple feeds (we will eventually be using more than 100 4K cameras for the actual streaming platform), 4K content streaming, latency, and functions such as being to Zoom in on the 4K content?

                        If anyone has any insight into the above, we would be grateful for your advice. We are a Japanese company and were recommended the above two streaming engines but know nothing about them as they literally “foreign” to us.

                        Thanks so much.

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