In this Wowza release, we would like to highlight two points that address issues of security and efficiency of using the media server. The Eclipse Jetty library, one of the third-party components included in the Wowza Streaming Engine, has been updated to address a vulnerability discovered in it. The vendor does not disclose details, but most likely we are talking about CVE-2023-26048 and CVE-2023-2604...
Traditionally for the latest releases of Wowza Streaming Engine, a third of all fixes and new release options relate to transcoding by the AMD Xilinx Alveo U30 graphics card. The process of finalizing this feature continues. We have not yet had the opportunity to evaluate its effectiveness ourselves, but Wowza has published updated performance test data for 3 supported transcoding methods and the results...
As in the previous two updates, half of the changes in the new release relate to the hardware transcoding option with the U30 card. Obviously, Wowza Media developers will need some more time to solve all the problems associated with the support of this card. In addition to fixes for the U30, the new update includes several important improvements that are interesting to the wider number of users. First ...
At the end of May, a new version of Wowza Streaming Engine™ 4.8.23+2 build (20230519113009) was released.
2023-06-16 21:27:00The new release includes several important options that allow you to use the Wowza Streaming Engine in conjunction with the Wowza Video cloud platform. Closer product integration will allow Wowza Video to offload all the complexity of streaming system scaling to Wowza Video while continuing to use its own Wowza Streaming Engine as a publishing point and media server for local broadcasts. In the new rel...
The main news of the release is the addition of support for the specialized AMD Xilinx Alveo U30 video card for H.264 and H.265 transcoding. It looks like using Wowza with Xilinx will allow you to create extremely productive transcoding systems and will be a good alternative to using Nvidia GPUs. But for now this is just a preview, for the full use of this method Wowza Streaming Engine will be ready in...
This release mainly includes bug fixes, most of which relate to the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager web interface. But there are also some important fixes for errors that lead to problems with the media server performance: Fixed an issue where PushPublish modules were taking too long to return for a failed request. Fixed an issue where network issues caused server crashes. Fixed a bug where RTCP pack...
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...