| Developer(s) | Wowza Media Systems |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.0.1 / October 12, 2011 |
| Operating system | Java-based, platform agnostic: Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Unix, Windows |
| Type | Enterprise and carrier class server software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.wowza.com/video-streaming-server.html |
Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs (rich Internet applications) over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV sets, and other network-connected devices. The server is a Java application deployable on the following operating systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Unix, and Windows. Wowza Media Server can stream to multiple types of playback clients and devices simultaneously, including the Adobe Flash player, Microsoft Silverlight player, Apple QuickTime player and iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), 3GPP mobile phones (Android, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, etc), IPTV set-top boxes (Amino, Enseo, Roku and others), and game consoles such as Wii and PS3).
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Version 1.0.x was released on 19 February 2007.[1] This version was originally offered as an alternative to the Adobe Flash Media Server, and supported streamed video, audio and RIA’s for the Flash Player client playback and interaction based on the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) using content encoded with Spark and VP6 codecs. The original product name was Wowza Media Server Pro.
Version 1.5.x was released on 15 May 2008[2] and added support for H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio, and ingest support for Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS), and ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast) sources for re-streaming to the Flash Player client.
Version 2.0.x was released on 17 December 2009.[3] The product name was changed to Wowza Media Server 2. This version added outbound H.264 streaming support for Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol for iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, etc.), Microsoft HTTP smooth streaming for Silverlight player, RTSP/RTP for QuickTime player and 3GPP mobile devices based on Android, BlackBerry (RIM), Symbian (Symbian Foundation), Palm webOS (now owned by HP), and other platforms, and TV set-top boxes and video game consoles.
Version 3.0.x was released on 7 October 2011. This version added DVR, Live transcoding, and DRM plug-in functionality.