Wowza Combined Server Software

Wowza hosting media server is mixed software of servers generated by Wowza Media Systems. It is used to stream live as well as on-demand rich internet applications,video and audio by way of public as well as private IP nets to different categories of computers, cell phones, set-top boxes, television sets linked to web, and so on. It is a type of Java application and is able to be worked on OSs such as UNIX, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Also it can stream to many playback clients and musical gadgets at the same time which contains Adobe Flash player, iOS devices, Microsoft Silverlight player, Apple Quick Time player, 3GPP mobile phones, game consoles e.g. PS3 and Wii, and IPTV set-top boxes. 
The original version of Wowza hosting server called 1.0.x was started in 2007 and was initially determined as an alternate for the Adobe Flash Media Server and used to sustain streamed video, RIA and audio  for the customer’s playback.
The brand 1.5.x was commenced in 2008 possessing additional maintain for H.264 video, AAC (advanced audio coding) audio, sustaining for RTSP, MPEG-TS, RTP and ICY method for streaming again to the customer of Flash Player.
Version 2.0.x was called as Wowza Media Server 2 and was launched in the year 2009. This brand presents facilities e.g. outward H.264 stream sustaining for Apple HTTP protocol for iOS instruments for example iPad as well as iPhone, MS HTTP stream for Silverlight player, and so on. 
Just lately i.e. in October 2011 the most sophisticated make 3.0.x came which has supplemented DRM plug-in function, live transcoding and DVR.
Out of these different makes, Wowza Media Server 2 is thought to be an extremely functional, adaptable and very receptive Flash media to be used as live and on-demand streaming, chat and recording. 
Wowza hosting equipped with Media Server 2 obtains unlimited RTMP and bandwidth as given in the plan and no limits are there on the quanity of several connections. 
Wowza hosting is brought into use for live streaming of audio and video using MPEG encoders, MPEG and RTMP, online radio-restreaming from icecast or shoutcast server and encoders, video meetings, audio or text chat, live support, internet games, documents delivery, telecommunications, mobile phone service providers, broadcasters of TV and radio, and multiple system providers. Wowza hosting is advantageous even for independent portals and has also got permit to make use of hardware as well as software products for other organizations to buy and sell using the brand name of the establishment. Media Server 2 even allows automatic installation of an expansive array of scripts for example Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo, and so on. 
Wowza Media Server 3 renders streaming of incoming of as well as outgoing of audio, video and metadata. The server offers a process for deciding custom server-side administrations or kinds of streams. These sorts of streams are arranged with the property of Stream Type or Streams in the Application.xml file. The media supported by Wowza hosting server 3 are MP3 content, QuickTime container or MP4 and Flash Video or FLV. By putting a correct prefix prior to the file name, you are also able to see on-demand video. By doing so a stream name is formed. Mostly occurring types of prefixes are smil, mp4, mp3 and flv.