Wowza Streaming Engine Vs Red5

Feature

Wowza Streaming Engine 4

Red5

Documented

Well documented

Badly Documented

Support

24*7 Support Available

No support

Protocols Supported

RTMP

RTMP

RTMPT

RTMPT

RTMPS

RTMPS

RTMPE

RTMPE

RTMPTE

RTMPTE

Developer Edition

Limited free connections

Free

Pricing

(30 day Trial also available)

Free(Open Source)

Supported Platforms

Windows

Windows

Java in Server Side

Java in Server Side

Mac OS X

Debian/Ubuntu

Linux

Mac OS X

Solaris

WAR

Unix

Gentoo

64-bit Support on all

Linux

IPv6 Support

Audio / Video Streaming (live and on-demand)

(On Demand)

(Live)

FLV

FLV

Sorenson

H.264

MP3

VP6

FLV

F4V

h.264

MP3

MP4

MP3, Nelly Moser

AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC

AAC

AAC, NSV

Speex

M4A

Speex

Multi Client/ Multi Protocol Streaming

Flash (RTMP)

Flash (RTMP)

iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming)

Silverlight (Smooth Streaming)

QucikTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP)

IPTV (MPEG-TS)

Recording

H.264/AAC to FLV container

FLV Only

H.264/AAC to MP4 (Quicktime) container

Inbound Live Encoder Support

RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC)

RTSP / RTP / MPEG-TS

(H.264/AAC: unicast, multicast, TCP, UDP)

ICY (MP3/AAC: SHOUTcast/ icecast)

Action Method Format 3 (AMF3)

AMF3(Bi-directional )

AMF3