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mashynewie2  
#1 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2016 5:18:00 AM(UTC)
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I would like to put out a suggestion that vMix could be a cheap Alternative to Wowza for certain applications.

One of the (many) uses for Wowza is to ingest a live stream from an encoder then transcode it to different bitrates then push it out to various different CDN's for delivery.

But Wowza is charging $65 a month just for the software!

You could install vMIX on a server, ingest a live stream and then transcode it and send it to various CDN's.

I am setting up a 24 hour webcam channel and, I want to push it out to Facebook Live, YouTube Live and ustream. I was actually looking at Wowza. But then thought, hang on, I can do this all in vMIX!

The only upside to Wowza is you can install it in the cloud, where as vMix might need expensive GPU instances.

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#2 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2016 9:20:42 AM(UTC)
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That would make sense in a co-location scenario where you supply the machine, however it probably doesn't have a great benefit in Virtual Machine scenario as most servers have only minimal graphics processing support. However, it is a very interesting concept. Hosting vMix in the cloud and then perhaps simply sending a feed via NDI over a VPN might just work!
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#3 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2016 11:56:29 AM(UTC)
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There are some cheap webservices that do what you are asking.
Look at restream.io and switchboard.live

the scheduling of events can be a pain on switchboard but its worth a try.
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mashynewie2  
#4 Posted : Sunday, August 28, 2016 2:23:44 AM(UTC)
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I just tried Switchboard and it's really good!!! I'm going to use this for my next stream.

Thanks so much!
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#5 Posted : Monday, August 29, 2016 2:50:59 AM(UTC)
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Good idea,

We use Wowza to make three different size streams.

Making three different streams from the original output NDI would have to increase the quality
of the lesser two as their not being re-compressed from the original highly compressed stream.

I assume that's how it works, I can't see it doing anything else?
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bastek789  
#6 Posted : Sunday, July 11, 2021 1:47:54 AM(UTC)
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Try Storm Streaming Server. Storm has best video startup time on the market and latency.
You can try cloud or install it on your own server.
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