Wowza Media Systems has acquired Flowplayer, the developer of the HTML5 video player of the same name, one of the most famous and successful software products for viewing videos on a website page. Following its strategy to move from a media server software developer to a global integrated video streaming platform, Wowza has acquired the rights to Flowplayer by taking over a Scandinavian software firm w...
The new release of Wowza Streaming Engine™ 4.8.20 (build 20220919162035) includes bug fixes and additional functionality. The most important fixes are a fix for starting the transcoding process and a fix for transcoding freezing that occurs under certain conditions. A memory leak has also been fixed when converting a WebRTC stream to HLS. Of the new features, it should be noted the use of the Beamr li...
Major changes in the new release. In order to exclude code vulnerable according to CVE-2022-22965 the dependencies of the Spring Cloud libraries were changed when building the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager administration web console. The likelihood of an attack using this vulnerability seems unlikely, but it's still better to update Wowza. Added the ability to digest authentication and store Wowza ...
Wowza Media has launched a new version of its cloud-based streaming and video content management platform. The news is less relevant for Russian users from a practical point of view (due to the fact that making payments has become difficult), but important for understanding the current trends in Internet video solutions industry as a whole. Wowza Video is a new cloud platform that aims to provide ...
The main change in this release from previous versions of Wowza Streaming Engine is the replacement of Oracle Java SE JRE 9.0.4 with OpenJDK Java SE JRE 11.0.2. When deploying Wowza to a new server, a standalone Java installation is not required. All required JRE 11.0.2 components are included in the release installer. The procedure for updating an already installed Wowza Streaming Engine version below...