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Wowza VS MistServer

Compare Wowza VS MistServer and see what are their differences

Wowza logo Wowza

Streaming media server supporting all known streaming protocols.

MistServer logo MistServer

MistServer is a lightweight, open-source multistandard multimedia server.
  • Wowza Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-11
  • MistServer Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-27

Wowza videos

WMSPanel daily statistics for Wowza Media Server

MistServer videos

1000000kb/s STREAMING?! MistServer on Windows Server & Ubuntu testing.

More videos:

  • Review - MistServer triggers
  • Review - DDVTech / MistServer Presentation at IBC2013

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Wowza and MistServer)
Video
49 49%
51% 51
Live Streaming
59 59%
41% 41
Video Platform
50 50%
50% 50
Video Streaming
100 100%
0% 0

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Reviews

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Wowza Reviews

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Wowza is a streaming engine that is easy to set up. It supports various formats of live stream, linear and on-demand content to any device.

MistServer Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, MistServer seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Wowza mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Wowza yet. Tracking of Wowza recommendations started around Mar 2021.

MistServer mentions (1)

  • I found a way to share one of my monitors into vrchat video players! (info in comment)
    We managed to do it using OBS and a program running on my raspberry pi 3 called MistServer, as well as my audio mixer to mute the browser source on my end and a dynamic dns app. This all being said, the friend I was spitballing with was able to get a hold of a private beta build to help it work smoothly on the pi. The fixes in this should be available later this year in the OSS (free) version, though you might be... Source: over 2 years ago

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Nimble Streamer - Light-weight media server that is freemium, pay for control panel if you need it.

Flussonic - We develop software for streaming video since 2010. Flussonic server solutions help business clients store, capture, deliver and transcode video. Customers in more than 100 countries.

Ushare uPnP media server - uShare is a UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server.