Wowza Streaming Engine Specifications

Wowza Streaming Engine is robust, customizable, and scalable server software that powers reliable video and audio streaming to any device. See full technical specifications below.

Streaming Delivery: Multi-Protocol, Multi-Client

Apple® HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) iPhone®, iPod®, iPad® (iOS 3.0 or later)
QuickTime® Player (10.0 or later)
Safari® (4.0 or later on Mac OS X version 10.6)
Roku® streaming devices
Other HLS-compatible players
Apple® Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (Low-Latency HLS) iPhone®, iPod®, iPad® (iOS 3.0 or later)
Other HLS-compatible players
MPEG-DASH DASH-HEVC/265, DASH-AVC/264, and DASH-WebM/VP9
WebRTC Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge
Adobe Flash® RTMP (RTMPE, RTMPT, RTMPTE, RTMPS) Flash Player
Adobe® AIR®
RTMP-compatible players
RTSP/RTP Quicktime Player
Other RTSP/RTP-compliant players
VideoLAN VLC media player
3GPP-compatible mobile devices
MPEG2 Transport Protocol (MPEG-TS) IPTV set-top boxes
Multicast to any Silverlight-enabled desktop

Live Streaming: Compatible Encoding Inputs

RTMP Video: H.264, VP8, VP6, Sorenson Spark®, Screen Video v1 & v2
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex
RTSP/RTP Video: H.265, H.264, VP9, VP8
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, Speex, Opus, Vorbis
MPEG-TS Video: H.265, H.264
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, AC-3 (Dolby® Digital), E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus), ALS (LOAS)
ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast) Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3
SRT Video: H.265, H.264
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MP3, AC-3 (Dolby® Digital), E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus), ALS (LOAS)

Video-on-Demand Streaming: Supported File Formats

Video and audio FLV (Flash Video—.flv)
MP4 (QuickTime container—.mp4, .f4v, .mov, .m4v, .mp4a, .3gp, & .3g2)
.ismv, .isma
MP3 (.mp3)

Protocols and Payloads: Applicable Transport Protocol and Payload Specifications

RTSP IETF RFC2326
RTP: H.264 IETF RFC3984, QuickTime generic RTP payload format
RTP: AAC IETF RFC3640
IETF RFC3016
ISO/IEC 14496-3
RTP: MP3 IETF RFC2250
MPEG-TS ISO/IEC 13818-1
MPEG-TS over RTP IETF RFC2038

System Requirements

Minimum recommended production hardware CPU: Single quad core, 3.00 GHz or better RAM: 4GB Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping) Network: 1Gbps Ethernet
High-load recommended production hardware CPU: Dual quad-core or a single hex-core, 3.00 GHz or better RAM: 16-32GB Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping) Network: 10Gbps Ethernet
Supported operating systems Windows® Linux Mac®
Java (required) Wowza Streaming Engine is built on OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4 and supports Java versions 9-12.

Transcoder

Supported operating systems Linux: CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, or SuSe fully supported versions (other Linux versions that can compile with glib 2.17 or greater are likely to work) Windows®: Windows server 2012, 2016, 2019; Windows 10
Java (required) Wowza Streaming Engine is built on OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4 and supports Java versions 9-12.
Decoding (inputs) Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MPEG4 Part 2, MPEG2, VP9, VP8
Audio: MP3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, MPEG1 Part 1/2, Speex, Opus, G.711, Vorbis
Encoding (outputs) Video: H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, H.263 (v2), VP9
Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC+ v1 & v2, Opus, Vorbis