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  5. Bitmovin vs Wowza

Bitmovin vs Wowza

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Wowza
Wowza
Stacks43
Followers72
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Bitmovin
Bitmovin
Stacks11
Followers42
Votes0

Wowza vs Bitmovin: What are the differences?

What is Wowza? *A customizable live streaming platform *. 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.

What is Bitmovin? Video Infrastructure for the Web. It provides adaptive streaming infrastructure for video publishers and integrators. Fastest cloud encoding and HTML5 Player, play Video Anywhere.

Wowza and Bitmovin can be categorized as "Video Streaming" tools.

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Advice on Wowza, Bitmovin

Kerry
Kerry

Apr 23, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon S3Amazon S3DockerDockerWowzaWowza

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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Anonymous
Anonymous

Jul 29, 2020

Needs adviceonBitmovinBitmovinWowzaWowza

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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Detailed Comparison

Wowza
Wowza
Bitmovin
Bitmovin

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.

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

Cloud Streaming Services; Streaming Server Software
Encoding; Player; Analytics; Mobile SDK; Live Streaming
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PHP
WordPress
WordPress
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JavaScript
Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine
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Ruby
Fastly
Fastly

What are some alternatives to Wowza, Bitmovin?

Zencoder

Zencoder

Zencoder downloads the video and converts it to as many formats as you need. Every output is encoded concurrently, with virtually no waiting—whether you do one or one hundred. Zencoder then uploads the resulting videos to a server, CDN, an S3 bucket, or wherever you dictate in your API call.

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.

GStreamer

GStreamer

It is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

Cloudflare Stream

Cloudflare Stream

Cloudflare Stream makes integrating high-quality streaming video into a web or mobile application easy. Using a single, integrated workflow through a robust API or drag and drop UI, application owners can focus on creating the best video experience.

Vmake

Vmake

Is a video editor designed for talking head videos, making it easier to generate creative video editing ideas.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Convert or transcode media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. Create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console.

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.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video transcoding service with broadcast-grade features. It allows you to easily create video-on-demand (VOD) content for broadcast and multiscreen delivery at scale.

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.

AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes.

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