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Wowza
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Wowza is the company blog at wowza.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Wowza Media Streaming Engine Announces Support for WebRTC (Beta)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Wowza, a commercial live-streaming media server, for WebRTC ingest and transcoding, low-latency HLS, and self-hosted streaming. The comments reference the product and its blog posts, not their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build mission critical video streaming infrastructure with flexible video server solutions for live and on demand streaming. Deploy on prem, cloud, edge, or air gapped environments with secure, low latency delivery.
Most-linked posts?
- Wowza Media Streaming Engine Announces Support for WebRTC (Beta)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-20
What Hacker News says?
Wowza Streaming Engine now provides WebRTC support (beta), which is great news since it can ingest WebRTC streams and transcode into any other formats for usage with non-compatible devices. As mentioned in the article already, P2P is quite heavy to scale (one-to-many streaming) so you will likely need centralisation. WebRTC is also fragile in the wild due to NAT. Wowza would split the NAT problem into smaller pieces…
Comment linking /products/capabilities/webrtc-streaming-software
on “A real world guide to WebRTC”Submitted Building a Mobile App for Live Streaming Sports as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAwesome client-side resource! WebRTC is poised to hit the big time now that it is supported by iOS 11. For both of my questions below I will link options from previous discussions[1]; any experience you can share would be appreciated. 1) What is the best option to implement a server that can tie into WebRTC for audio/video/screensharing? https://github.com/mappum/electron-webrtc - simple but bulky Node.js WebRTC via…
Comment linking /products/capabilities/webrtc-streaming-software
on “SIP.js v0.8.0 Supports All Major Browsers and Renegotiation”Submitted Wowza Announces Acquisition of Flowplayer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSoftware for scaling up live-streaming CDN points of presence (POPs) is a pretty crazy domain. For on-demand video, you can think of a CDN as a cache, getting known-ahead-of-time chunks. But what about for live streaming? It's not feasible to stream frame-by-frame directly from your encoding backend to all the viewers of the World Cup, over something like RMTP - you'd want to use a CDN. So typically, you distribute…
Comment linking /blog/hls-latency-sucks-but-heres-how-to-fix-it
on “Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues”Submitted Build React Native Apps: Demo by MEDL Mobile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI earned my bread and butter for well over 15 years with just that: plug-in free video. It's always been a hack and audio is harder than video (though you can hack your way around that as well). So yes, those attempts have been made and it was pretty successful. But, ironically, mass adoption of flash killed it and now that flash is being killed there is nothing left to really replace it (except maybe to revive jpeg…
Comment linking /blog/a-note-on-html5
on “Movement to get rid of Adobe Flash started 3 years ago. Flash is still alive”Submitted Flash is dead, long live THEOPlayer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: Low-Latency HLS (an extension of HLS, invented by Apple) is now part of the IETF HLS specification. [1] https://www.wowza.com/blog/ietf-incorporates-low-latency-hls... [2] https://www.wowza.com/blog/apple-low-latency-hls
Comment linking /blog/apple-low-latency-hls
on “Scalable, Ultra Low Latency and Adaptive WebRTC Streaming”Submitted Developer Meetup: Building a Live Streaming App (Bay Area) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRight, if you want to self-host you can run something like Wowza (paid product, but it's a complete solution) https://www.wowza.com/
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on “Ask HN: Why is there no enterprise grade open-source zoom alternative?”Submitted Wowza Streaming Engine Now Supports WebRTC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is the main one http://www.wowza.com/ -- I'm not sure if it's free anymore judging by the site but suffice to say it's much cheaper than Flash server. There is no CloudFormation stack for it AFAIK but there are existing AMIs.
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on “Scaling a popular internet radio station”Submitted Wowza Media Streaming Engine Announces Support for WebRTC (Beta) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor subscription based services, is there a reason not to just use html5 streaming video with something like http://www.wowza.com/media-server ? This should work fine and circumvent all the flash / silverlight problems whilst still being DRM'd. I know of at least one spotify competitor using this exact setup to fit both the mandatory DRM'd streams from major labels and still allow streaming to flash / silverlight ba…
Comment linking /media-server
on “HTML5 and DRM”Well I don't know what they use but there are a bunch of streaming media servers that can do this. Wowza Streaming Engine [1] is top notch and pretty standard [2] Wowza even has a kind of a demo app [2] that can do the streaming part of what meerkat does and it's been around for at least a couple years. The streaming part of meerkat is not real interesting or novel but the social part clearly is. If it's me and I wa…
Comment linking /products/gocoder
on “Ask HN: What sort of software stack to live-streaming apps like Meerkat use?”
