Hosting Marketers will start this week offering Wowza Media server as an addon to the current hosting packages with red5, with a low cost fee of $15 a month extra from the hosting plan selected by the customer we offer a first class Media server far superior to red5 and adobe flash media server. Below is a comparison guide between Wowza and Flash Media Server.
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| Server Pricing and Licensing |
Wowza Media
Server 3 |
Adobe
FMIS 4.5 |
Adobe
FMSS 4.5 |
| 30-Day Trial License |
FREE |
Not Available |
Not Available |
| Monthly License |
$55/server/mo |
Not Available |
Not Available |
| Daily License |
$5/server/day |
Not Available |
Not Available |
| Perpetual License |
$995 |
$4,500 |
$995 |
| Use on Amazon EC2 |
Yes |
Yes |
Not Available |
| Developer License |
FREE |
FREE |
FREE |
| Available Platform Components |
| Integrated Live Transcoder |
Yes* |
No |
No |
| Multi-protocol nDVR |
Yes* |
Partial |
No |
| Multi-platform DRM |
Yes* |
Partial |
No |
* Extra cost option
| Multi-Protocol, Multi-Client Streaming |
| Flash (RTMP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Flash (HTTP Streaming) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Silverlight (Smooth Streaming) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| QuickTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| IPTV (MPEG-TS) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Inbound Live Encoder Support |
| RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RTSP/RTP/MPEG-TS (H.264/AAC; unicast, multicast, TCP, UDP) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| ICY (MP3/AAC; SHOUTcast/icecast) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Multiple Server Streaming |
| Live Stream Repeater Origin-Edge Functionality |
Included |
Included |
No |
| On-demand Dynamic Media Caching (Edge) |
Included |
Included |
No |
| Supported Platforms |
| Windows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Mac OS X |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Linux |
Yes |
Limited |
Limited |
| Solaris |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Unix |
Yes |
No |
No |
| 64-bit Support |
Yes – all platforms |
No |
No |
| IPv6 Support |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) Support |
| RTMP |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RTMPT |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RTMPS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RTMPE |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RTMPTE |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Programming Options |
| Client Side |
ActionScript |
ActionScript |
ActionScript |
| Server Side |
Java¹ |
ActionScript |
No |
¹ Free Wowza IDE tool is available for simplified server-side programming
| Applications Capabilities |
| Video Streaming (live and on-demand) |
|
|
| FLV |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| H.264 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Audio Streaming (live and on-demand) |
|
|
| FLV |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| MP3 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Speex |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Chat (text, audio, video) |
|
|
|
| One-to-One |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| One-to-Many |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Many-to-Many |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recording |
|
|
|
| Remote, b/w independent |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| H.264/AAC to FLV container |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| H.264/AAC to MP4 (QuickTime) container |
Yes |
No |
No |
Simultaneous,
during live stream |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Action Method Format 3 (AMF3) Support |
|
|
| Uni-directional |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Bi-Directional |
Yes |
No |
No |
| SHOUTcast/Icecast2 Re-streaming |
|
|
| MP3 |
Yes |
No |
No |
| AAC |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Remote Shared Objects (RSOs) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Extensibility |
| Plug-in architecture (custom modules) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Application-specific stream types |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Customizable media writers |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Customizable media readers |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Content Management Systems Access |
| File-based storage systems |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Protocol-based storage systems |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Other Features |
| Playlist and ad insertion support |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Dynamic bandwidth detection |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Virtual hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Fast seek |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fast forward/rewind trick play (VP6) |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Slow play |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Dynamic streaming |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Security & Content Protection Options |
| SecureToken anti-ripping protection |
Yes |
No |
No |
| swf Domain/IP address validation |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Encrypted delivery (RTMPS/E/TE) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| AES-128 Encryption (Apple HTTP Streaming) |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| User access controls |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi-platform DRM support |
Yes* |
Partial |
No |
* Extra cost option
| Management |
| WC3 compliant logging |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interface to standards-based management tools |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Management console |
Yes
(via JMX) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Centralized configuration management |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Scalability |
| Live Stream Repeater |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Demand-based load balancing |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Round-robin load balancing |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Local content caching |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
