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How to Upgrade the Latest Wowza Streaming Engine Version
Version upgrades are included with maintenance and support contracts. Be sure you have active maintenance and support before upgrading. For more details on the upgrade process, Please note, the upgrade process varies by license type. please contact sales@pledo.co for information on how to upgrade.
Perpetual Edition Licenses
Start the process by signing in and going to the My Support page.with your new REDEMPTION CODE(S) and find the option to upgrade in the Renew or Upgrade drop-down list next to your perpetual license keys.
Subscription Licenses
On February 24, 2014, all Wowza Media Server 3.x subscription customers were emailed complementary Wowza Streaming Engine 4 license keys. If you did not receive your license key, please contact sales@pledo.co to request it.
FAQs
Administration and Management
What is Wowza Streaming Engine Manager?
Wowza Streaming Engine Manager enables you to easily configure, manage, and monitor Wowza Streaming Engine server software from a web browser on your computer, tablet, or phone. Although programmatic and command-line configuration and management of Wowza Streaming Engine is still available, the browser-based manager offers key benefits that enable publishers with a diverse range of technical abilities to have greater control and confidence when streaming video.
Why should I use Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5?
Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5 contains several fixes and enhancements that help to improve the functionality of the media server software.
What administration consoles can I use?
The server can be administered with any Java Management Extension–compatible administration console, such as JConsole (available with the Java JDK) or the open source MC4J JMX browser, free of charge. Wowza Streaming Engine can also be administered from HP OpenView, Tivoli, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, SNMP and many other management platforms.
Installation
What operating systems does Wowza Streaming Engine run on?
Wowza Streaming Engine runs on any platform that supports Java 9 (OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4) or later. Installer packages are available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. For best performance, we recommend using a 64-bit OS.
What are the hardware requirements?
At a minimum, we recommend a quad-core system with at least 8 GB of RAM. To get the most throughput out of Wowza Streaming Engine software we suggest you use RAID 0 or RAID 10 configurations with two or more disks in the array for on-demand streaming. Depending upon your application and load, you may need more or less horsepower.
What operating systems does Wowza Transcoder run on?
Operation of Wowza Transcoder requires 64-bit Windows or Linux. This includes the use of Intel Media SDK, or NVIDIA CUDA and NVIDIA NVENC SDK acceleration technologies.
Integration
Is there a tool for server-side programming?
You can utilize industry-standard development tools to accomplish the server-side programming tasks. Wowza offers the free Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), which greatly simplifies and streamlines the tasks of extending, configuring, and managing the Wowza Media Systems products. The download information for this free development tool can be found on our Wowza IDE page.
Does Wowza Streaming Engine provide back-end system integration?
Our extensible Java API provides a wide variety of system-integration options. Integration options include web services, JNI (Java Native Interface), direct Java integration, XML, remote procedure calls, and others.
Can I use server-side programming with Wowza Streaming Engine?
Yes. Server-side programming is in Java. Wowza Streaming Engine offers an extensive API to give you maximum flexibility. For more information please refer to the Wowza Streaming Engine API Overview page or the Wowza Streaming Engine Rest API page.
What resources are available for developers?
Wowza is committed to supporting our developer community and offers a variety of tools and resources, including a developer license for use in building products and applications on the Wowza platform. Learn more about resources for Wowza developers.
Operations and Support
What live encoders can I use with Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports a wide range of media encoders that use RTMP, RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS, SRT and WebRTC protocols. Encoders can be either unicast or multicast. Learn more information about how to use a variety of encoders and cameras as live sources for Wowza Streaming Engine.
Does Wowza Streaming Engine support newer technologies like H.265, Apple Low-Latency HLS, HEAAC, MPEG-DASH, VP9?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports a wide variety of protocols and codecs. See the complete list of supported protocols, containers and formats.
Do you support restreaming of SHOUTcast or Icecast streams?
Yes. Wowza Streaming Engine supports restreaming of MP3 and AAC SHOUTcast/Icecast streams to all supported player technologies. Learn how to use SHOUTcast/Icecast with Wowza Streaming Engine.
Do I need to use Wowza Transcoder to repackage a stream from one transport protocol to another?
No. The core Wowza Streaming Engine software offers native capability for repackaging (i.e., transmultiplexing) H.264 content from one incoming transport protocol type (for example, RTMP) to a different outgoing transport protocol (for example, HLS). You need to use the transcoding feature only if you need to convert a non-H.264 incoming stream to H.264 streams, and/or change the bitrate or encoding profile of the incoming stream. Learn more about Wowza Transcoder.
How can I get support?
Wowza offers multiple technical-support resources for our user community. Please visit the support area of the website for complete details about support resources, including email, forums, guides, tutorials, and code samples. Also see more information about the Wowza premium support offering.
Why do I need a maintenance and support contract?
Performance and Scalability
Can I load-balance across multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances?
Yes, there is support for load-balancing between multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances. Wowza Streaming Engine also includes a very scalable HTTP-based caching mechanism for multiple-server delivery for on-demand streaming. For more information, please visit the Load Balancing Overview page.
Can I load-balance across multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances?
Yes, there is support for load-balancing between multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances. Wowza Streaming Engine also includes a very scalable HTTP-based caching mechanism for multiple-server delivery for on-demand streaming. For more information, please visit the Load Balancing Overview page.
Do you offer a load-testing tool?
Yes, the Load Test Tool can simulate connections for load testing on Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5 and later. This tool enables you to configure, control, and monitor load tests through a web-based interface.
How can I maximize the server on-demand performance?
A lot of Wowza Streaming Engine software performance is driven by the I/O performance of the underlying server. Wowza Streaming Engine software can go only as fast as the server can deliver content bits from the disk. To get the most throughput out of Wowza Streaming Engine, we suggest you use RAID 0 or RAID 10 configurations with as many disks as possible in the RAID array. In addition, utilization of Media Cache improves performance by caching on-demand content.
Can Wowza Streaming Engine deliver up to 10 Gbps of streaming from a single server?
Our customers have been able to get up to 10 Gbps of streaming performance for both live and on-demand media on multithreaded, multi-CPU machines that were finely tuned at the kernel level. On standard servers with dual quad-core processors and multiple NICs, up to 5 Gbps of streaming performance can be achieved if the server is properly tuned. Tuning guidance is available in our Performance Tuning Guide.
Is Wowza Streaming Engine scalable?
Yes. Wowza Streaming Engine is a highly scalable, tightly coded, multithreaded Java server. The software effectively utilizes CPU (unlimited cores/threads per instance) and memory resources to let you get more connection capacity out of any given hardware. The connection capacity in most cases is limited by the disk I/O or network interface performance.
AddOns
Are AddOns available for Wowza Streaming Engine?
Supported Players Clients and Devices
What transport protocols does Wowza Streaming Engine support?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports Apple HLS for iPhone/iPad and other compatible devices; MPEG-DASH for DASH-AVC/264-compatible players; Silverlight Smooth Streaming; RTSP/RTP for Android, QuickTime, and other 3GPP mobile devices; MPEG-TS for set-top boxes; and Adobe HDS and several variants of RTMP for applications using Flash Player (versions 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11). See specifications for a current list of supported protocols.
With what players does Wowza Streaming Engine work?
What devices can I stream to from Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports streaming to all leading connected device platforms, from computers to mobile phones and tablets, gaming consoles and IPTV/OTT devices, smart TVs, CDNs, Facebook and more. Learn more.
Wowza Streaming Engine Specifications
Administration and Management
What is Wowza Streaming Engine Manager?
Wowza Streaming Engine Manager enables you to easily configure, manage, and monitor Wowza Streaming Engine server software from a web browser on your computer, tablet, or phone. Although programmatic and command-line configuration and management of Wowza Streaming Engine is still available, the browser-based manager offers key benefits that enable publishers with a diverse range of technical abilities to have greater control and confidence when streaming video.
Why should I use Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5?
Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.5 contains several fixes and enhancements that help to improve the functionality of the media server software.
What administration consoles can I use?
The server can be administered with any Java Management Extension–compatible administration console, such as JConsole (available with the Java JDK) or the open source MC4J JMX browser, free of charge. Wowza Streaming Engine can also be administered from HP OpenView, Tivoli, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, SNMP and many other management platforms.
Installation
What operating systems does Wowza Streaming Engine run on?
Wowza Streaming Engine runs on any platform that supports Java 9 (OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4) or later. Installer packages are available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. For best performance, we recommend using a 64-bit OS.
What are the hardware requirements?
At a minimum, we recommend a quad-core system with at least 8 GB of RAM. To get the most throughput out of Wowza Streaming Engine software we suggest you use RAID 0 or RAID 10 configurations with two or more disks in the array for on-demand streaming. Depending upon your application and load, you may need more or less horsepower.
What operating systems does Wowza Transcoder run on?
Operation of Wowza Transcoder requires 64-bit Windows or Linux. This includes the use of Intel Media SDK, or NVIDIA CUDA and NVIDIA NVENC SDK acceleration technologies.
Integration
Is there a tool for server-side programming?
You can utilize industry-standard development tools to accomplish the server-side programming tasks. Wowza offers the free Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), which greatly simplifies and streamlines the tasks of extending, configuring, and managing the Wowza Media Systems products. The download information for this free development tool can be found on our Wowza IDE page.
Does Wowza Streaming Engine provide back-end system integration?
Our extensible Java API provides a wide variety of system-integration options. Integration options include web services, JNI (Java Native Interface), direct Java integration, XML, remote procedure calls, and others.
Can I use server-side programming with Wowza Streaming Engine?
Yes. Server-side programming is in Java. Wowza Streaming Engine offers an extensive API to give you maximum flexibility. For more information please refer to the Wowza Streaming Engine API Overview page or the Wowza Streaming Engine Rest API page.
What resources are available for developers?
Wowza is committed to supporting our developer community and offers a variety of tools and resources, including a developer license for use in building products and applications on the Wowza platform. Learn more about resources for Wowza developers.
Operations and Support
What live encoders can I use with Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports a wide range of media encoders that use RTMP, RTSP/RTP, MPEG-TS, SRT and WebRTC protocols. Encoders can be either unicast or multicast. Learn more information about how to use a variety of encoders and cameras as live sources for Wowza Streaming Engine.
Does Wowza Streaming Engine support newer technologies like H.265, Apple Low-Latency HLS, HEAAC, MPEG-DASH, VP9?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports a wide variety of protocols and codecs. See the complete list of supported protocols, containers and formats.
Do you support restreaming of SHOUTcast or Icecast streams?
Yes. Wowza Streaming Engine supports restreaming of MP3 and AAC SHOUTcast/Icecast streams to all supported player technologies. Learn how to use SHOUTcast/Icecast with Wowza Streaming Engine.
Do I need to use Wowza Transcoder to repackage a stream from one transport protocol to another?
No. The core Wowza Streaming Engine software offers native capability for repackaging (i.e., transmultiplexing) H.264 content from one incoming transport protocol type (for example, RTMP) to a different outgoing transport protocol (for example, HLS). You need to use the transcoding feature only if you need to convert a non-H.264 incoming stream to H.264 streams, and/or change the bitrate or encoding profile of the incoming stream. Learn more about Wowza Transcoder.
How can I get support?
Wowza offers multiple technical-support resources for our user community. Please visit the support area of the website for complete details about support resources, including email, forums, guides, tutorials, and code samples. Also see more information about the Wowza premium support offering.
Why do I need a maintenance and support contract?
Performance and Scalability
Can I load-balance across multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances?
Yes, there is support for load-balancing between multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances. Wowza Streaming Engine also includes a very scalable HTTP-based caching mechanism for multiple-server delivery for on-demand streaming. For more information, please visit the Load Balancing Overview page.
Can I load-balance across multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances?
Yes, there is support for load-balancing between multiple Wowza Streaming Engine instances. Wowza Streaming Engine also includes a very scalable HTTP-based caching mechanism for multiple-server delivery for on-demand streaming. For more information, please visit the Load Balancing Overview page.
Do you offer a load-testing tool?
Yes, the Load Test Tool can simulate connections for load testing on Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5 and later. This tool enables you to configure, control, and monitor load tests through a web-based interface.
How can I maximize the server on-demand performance?
A lot of Wowza Streaming Engine software performance is driven by the I/O performance of the underlying server. Wowza Streaming Engine software can go only as fast as the server can deliver content bits from the disk. To get the most throughput out of Wowza Streaming Engine, we suggest you use RAID 0 or RAID 10 configurations with as many disks as possible in the RAID array. In addition, utilization of Media Cache improves performance by caching on-demand content.
Can Wowza Streaming Engine deliver up to 10 Gbps of streaming from a single server?
Our customers have been able to get up to 10 Gbps of streaming performance for both live and on-demand media on multithreaded, multi-CPU machines that were finely tuned at the kernel level. On standard servers with dual quad-core processors and multiple NICs, up to 5 Gbps of streaming performance can be achieved if the server is properly tuned. Tuning guidance is available in our Performance Tuning Guide.
Is Wowza Streaming Engine scalable?
Yes. Wowza Streaming Engine is a highly scalable, tightly coded, multithreaded Java server. The software effectively utilizes CPU (unlimited cores/threads per instance) and memory resources to let you get more connection capacity out of any given hardware. The connection capacity in most cases is limited by the disk I/O or network interface performance.
AddOns
Are AddOns available for Wowza Streaming Engine?
Supported Players Clients and Devices
What transport protocols does Wowza Streaming Engine support?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports Apple HLS for iPhone/iPad and other compatible devices; MPEG-DASH for DASH-AVC/264-compatible players; Silverlight Smooth Streaming; RTSP/RTP for Android, QuickTime, and other 3GPP mobile devices; MPEG-TS for set-top boxes; and Adobe HDS and several variants of RTMP for applications using Flash Player (versions 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11). See specifications for a current list of supported protocols.
With what players does Wowza Streaming Engine work?
What devices can I stream to from Wowza Streaming Engine?
Wowza Streaming Engine supports streaming to all leading connected device platforms, from computers to mobile phones and tablets, gaming consoles and IPTV/OTT devices, smart TVs, CDNs, Facebook and more. Learn more.