Multi-Protocol, Multi-Client Streaming

• Adobe Flash® RTMP : Flash Player
• (RTMPE, RTMPT, RTMPTE, RTMPS) : Adobe® AIR® RTMP-compatible players
• Adobe Flash HTTP Streaming (HDS) : HDS-compatible players
• 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
• MPEG-DASH : DASH-264 compatible players
• RTSP/RTP : Quicktime Player, VideoLAN VLC media player, 3GPP-compatible mobile devices, Other RTSP/RTP-compliant players
• Microsoft® Smooth Streaming : Silverlight® or later, Other Smooth Streaming-compatible Players
• MPEG2 Transport Protocol (MPEG-TS) : IPTV set-top boxes

Compatible Live Encoding

• RTMP : Video - H.264, VP6, Sorenson Spark®, Screen Video v1 & v2, Audio: AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, MP3, Speex, Nellymoser Asao
• RTSP/RTP : Video - H.264, H.263, Audio - AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, MP3, Speex
• MPEG-TS : Video - H.264, Audio - AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, MP3, AC-3 (Dolby® Digital), E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus)
• ICY (SHOUTcast/Icecast) : Audio - AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC (aacPlus) v1 & v2, MP3

Supported File Formats

• Video and Audio : FLV (Flash Video - .flv), MP4 (QuickTime container - .mp4, .f4v, .mov, .m4v, .mp4a, .3gp, and .3g2), MP3 (.mp3), PIFF (.ism, .ismc, .ismv, .isma)

Applicable Transport Protocol and Payload Specifications

• RTSP : IETF RFC2326
• RTP:H.264 : IETF RFC3984, QuickTime Generic RTP Payload Format
• RTP:ACC : IETF RFC3640, IETF RFC3016, ISO/IEC 14496-3
• RTP:MP3 : IETF RFC2250
• RTP:Speex : IETF RFC5574
• 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 - 1Gb 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® (XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, 2008, 2012) Linux (all distributions), Solaris, Mac® OS, Unix
• Java (required) : Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or greater or Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or greater
• Additional requirements for Wowza Transcoder AddOn : Windows (64-bit only, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, 2008, 2012) Linux (64-bit only, all distributions)

Closed Captioning

• Inputs : VOD - CEA-608, TTML, SRT, SCC, 3GPP data tracks from VOD asset (MP4) Live - CEA-608, onTextData events (in-stream or injected using API)
• Outputs : Adobe RTMP, HDS - onTextData , Apple HLS - CEA-608, WebVTT

Wowza Transcoder AddOn

• Decoding : Video - MPEG2, MPEG4 Part 2, H.264/AVC, Audio - MP3, AAC (LC & HE), MPEG1 Part 1/2, Speex, G.711
• Encoding : Video - H.263, H.264/AVC, Audio - AAC (LC & HE)
• Hardware accelerated encoding : NVIDIA NVENC (Windows, Linux), NVIDIA CUDA (Windows), Intel QuickSync (Windows, Linux (preview))

Wowza nDVR AddOn

• Live Stream Caching and Playout : Single content cache for simultaneous playout to Flash HDS, Silverlight Smooth Streaming, and Apple HLS clients
• Live Stream Time Shifting : Pause, Rewind, Forward, Resume to Live

Wowza DRM AddOn

• 3rd Party DRM Platform Compatibility : Verimatrix VCAS™, Microsoft PlayReady, BuyDRM™ KeyOS Platform, EZDRM Hosted DRM
• Encryption Methodology : For Live - per-stream with the ability to rotate keys, For VOD - per-asset or per-session with the ability to rotate keys