Wowza Streaming Engine

Commercial media server by Wowza Media Systems for reliable live and on-demand video streaming. Supports RTMP, RTSP, HLS, LL-HLS, MPEG-DASH, CMAF, WebRTC, and SRT ingest and delivery. Built-in adaptive bitrate transcoding (CPU and GPU via NVIDIA/AMD Xilinx), nDVR recording with time-shift and catch-up, DRM integration (Widevine/FairPlay/PlayReady via EZDRM/BuyDRM), origin-edge scaling with load balancing, closed captioning (CEA-608/708, WebVTT, TTML), ad insertion, and a Java-based module system for custom server-side logic. Managed via Streaming Engine Manager web UI and comprehensive REST API. Requires a commercial license key.