Great Streaming Tools Wowza Media Server - written by Mirjan Stojanovic

Wowza hosting media server is mixed software of servers manufactured by Wowza Media Systems. It is used to stream live and on-demand audio, rich internet applications and video by means of private and public IP networks to different sorts of computers, cell phones, set-top boxes, TV-sets linked to web, and so on. It is a form of Java function and can be run on operating systems such as UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, and Linux.

Moreover it can stream to a number of playback clients and instruments simultaneously which includes iOS devices, Adobe Flash player, Microsft Silverlight player, 3GPP mobile phones, Apple Quick Time player, game consoles such as Wii and PS3, and IPTV set-top boxes.

The original model of Wowza hosting server named 1.0.x was launched in 2007 and was originally meant as a substitute for the Adobe Flash Media Server and utilized to prop up streamed audio, video and RIA for the client playback.

The make 1.5.x was started in 2008 possessing extra support for H.264 video, AAC (advanced audio coding) audio, sustaining for RTSP, RTP, MPEG-TS and ICY means for streaming again to the client of Flash Player.

model 2.0.x was titled as Wowza Media Server 2 and was commenced in 2009. This make renders amenities for example outward H.264 stream propping up for Apple HTTP protocol for iOS instruments for example iPhone as well as iPad, MS HTTP stream for the purpose of Silverlight player, etc.

Just last year i.e. in October 2011 the latest model 3.0.x was launched which has linked Live transcoding, DRM plug-in function and DVR. Out of these different versions, Wowza Media Server 2 is considered a very functional, adjustable and very receptive Flash media for live and on-demand streaming, recording and chat.

Wowza hosting marked with Media Server 2 obtains forever RTMP and bandwidth as presented in the plan and no limitations are there on the quanity of several connections.
Wowza hosting is made use of for live streaming of audio and video using RTMP, MPEG-TS encoders and MPEG, internet radio-restreaming from shoutcast or icecast server and encoders, video webinars, audio or textual chat, live support, online games, content delivery, telecommunications, mobile operators, broadcasters of radio as well as TV, and a number of system providers.

Wowza hosting is advantageous also for autonomous portals and also possesses license to utilize hardware and software products for other firms to buy and sell with the brand name of the company. Media Server 2 also allows automatic incorporation of a vast range of scripts e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, etc.

Wowza Media Server 3 provides streaming of inward as well as outgoing of metadata, video and audio. The server provides a process for fixing customized server-side implementations or categories of streams. These kinds of streams are designed with the property of Stream Type or Streams in the Application.xml file. The media maintained by Wowza hosting server 3 are Flash Video or FLV, QuickTime container or MP4 and MP3 content. By adding an appropriate prefix before the file name, you are also enabled to watch on-demand video. By doing so a stream name is formed. Mostly occurring types of prefixes are smil, mp4, mp3 and flv.