Just like its predecessor, Wowza Media Server, The Wowza Streaming Engine is a powerful streaming media server, used for streaming of live and on demand videos, audios, over network to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV sets, game consoles, and other network-connected devices.Its a Java based software and easily deployable on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Unix, Solaris. Depending upon the service provided trans coders are needed and that will not cost much The cost is very low as there is not much requirement for many trans coders. The management of the streams is not so complex as that of hardware streaming or parallel streaming. because there is only a single file is needed which trans codes the video in different protocols and formats According to the bandwidth on the client side the streaming server software streams the video. For on-demand, there can be different renditions batch converted early in different bit rates. By choosing a good streaming server software that provides this trans coding on the fly. It uses one or more trans coders to trans code a single ingest stream to different output formats and different protocols. This type of streaming is different than parallel streaming. Parallel Streaming is best for High end Broadcasts where there will be millions of users, because vast storage is required and the cost is high to provide the best User Experience. So User gets the best quality experience. Because each devices has its own protocols and there is a particular stream for the device. Hence the management of these streams gets complexĪlthough the video and audio is same and sometimes uses same codecs to stream into different formats, which always end up with dozens of renditions of same title in order to deliver the best possible video quality to all desired playback endpoints.The cost of trans coders, servers, content protection systems, and storage for multiple formats is high.

And each trans coder handles the streams for a single protocol ChallengesĮach format is delivered by a different streaming media server from a different vendor, each with its own programming languages and OS requirements. And each trans coder encodes each stream in particular bit rates to provide adaptive bit rates. There are a lot of encoders or trans coders for each protocols. Types Of Stre aming Engine Parallel Streaming A user does not have to wait with streaming media to download a file to play it.In the streaming sector, Wowza Streaming Engine technology is one of the finest. Streaming media is a video or audio functionality being sent across the Internet in compressed manner and played instantly without being saved on the system.

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