Wowza Streaming Engine is a unified streaming media server software developed by Wowza. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and rich Internet applications over IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV sets, game consoles, and other network-connected devices. The server is a Java application deployable on most operating systems.
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Live streaming: compatible encoding inputs
Name
Description
ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast)
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3
MPEG-TS
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, AC-3 (Dolby® Digital), E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus), ALS (LOAS)
Video: H.265, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2
RTMP
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex
Video: H.264, VP8, VP6, Sorenson Spark®, Screen Video v1 & v2
RTSP/RTP
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex, Opus, Vorbis
Video: H.265, H.264, VP8, VP9
SRT
Video: H.265, H.264
SRT stream targets are only supported on Linux and Windows.
WebRTC
Audio: Opus (recommended), Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) types PCMU and PCMA
Video: H.264, VP8, VP9
Protocols and payloads: applicable transport protocol and payload specifications
ISO/IEC 13818-1
MPEG-TS over RTP
IETF RFC2038
RTP: AAC
IETF RFC3640
IETF RFC3016
ISO/IEC 14496-3
RTP: H.264
IETF RFC3984, QuickTime generic RTP payload format
RTP: MP3
IETF RFC2250
RTSP
IETF RFC2326
Streaming delivery: multi-protocol, multi-client
Adobe Flash® RTMP (RTMPE, RTMPT, RTMPTE, RTMPS)
Adobe® AIR®
Flash Player
RTMP-compatible players
Apple® HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
iPhone®, iPod®, iPad® (iOS 3.0 or later)
Other HLS-compatible players
QuickTime® Player (10.0 or later)
Roku® streaming devices
Safari® (4.0 or later on Mac OS X version 10.6)
Apple® Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (Low-Latency HLS)
MPEG2 Transport Protocol (MPEG-TS)
IPTV set-top boxes
Multicast to any Silverlight-enabled desktop
MPEG-DASH
DASH-HEVC/265, DASH-AVC/264, and DASH-WebM/VP9
3GPP-compatible mobile devices
Other RTSP/RTP-compliant players
Quicktime Player
VideoLAN VLC media player
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari
System requirements
High-load production hardware
Recommended
CPU: 6 cores, 3.00 GHz or better
RAM: 16-32GB Disk: SATA SSD
Network: 10Gbps Ethernet
Java (required)
The current version of Wowza Streaming Engine is compiled using OpenJDK Java SE JRE 17.0.12 and supports Java versions 17 or 21. This version has been officially certified, thoroughly tested, and optimized to run seamlessly with the Java 21 JRE. For more, see Wowza Streaming Engine support for Java.
Minimum recommended production hardware
CPU: Single quad core, 3.00 GHz or better
Network: 1Gbps Ethernet
RAM: 4GB Disk: SATA HDD
Supported operating systems
Linux
Windows®
The operating system version must be capable of running a Java VM.
Transcoder
Decoding (inputs)
Audio: MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MPEG1 Part 1/2, Speex, Opus, G.711, Vorbis
Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MPEG4 Part 2, MPEG2,VP8, VP9
Encoding (outputs)
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, Opus, Vorbis
Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, H.263 (v2), VP8, VP9
Linux: CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, or SuSe are fully supported versions. Other Linux versions that can compile with glib 2.17 or greater are likely to work.
Windows®: Windows server 2012, 2016, 2019; Windows 10
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)
