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 Adobe Adobe
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,
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 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
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