Archives for Sydney Roy (Whalen)

Sydney works for Wowza as a content writer and Marketing Communications Specialist, leveraging roughly a decade of experience in copywriting, technical writing, and content development. When observed in the wild, she can be found gaming, reading, hiking, parenting, overspending at the Renaissance Festival, and leaving coffee cups around the house.

HLS vs. WebRTC: What to Know Before Choosing a Protocol

October 10, 2022

  You’re dead set on low-latency streaming, but there’s just one problem: you don’t know where to begin choosing a streaming protocol. The truth is, not all protocols are created equal, and many cater to specific needs,…

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10+ Live Streaming Apps Using WebRTC

October 3, 2022

Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) has come a long way since its inception as a VoIP protocol meant for lightning-fast peer-to-peer connections. Google initially released WebRTC as an open-source project back in 2011. Since then, developers and streaming…

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WebRTC Glossary

September 27, 2022

Lately, we’ve been asking a lot of questions about WebRTC, and we know many of you have been too. But with so many terms to unpack, it can be difficult to know where to start on…

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WebRTC Simulcast: What It Is and How It Works

September 22, 2022

How can you broadcast at sub-second latency to multiple viewers with varying computing resources? WebRTC simulcasting refers to the process by which WebRTC prepares media files for smooth and reasonably high-quality streaming regardless of user bandwidths. …

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Demo: Wowza Video

September 19, 2022

  Looking for the right video streaming platform for your live streaming and VOD needs? This Wowza Video Demo walks you through our Wowza Video platform, showing you how to prepare a live stream, test…

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Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: How It Works and Why It Matters (Update)

August 24, 2022

  To computer scientists, video buffering refers to the act of preloading data to stream with fewer interruptions. To the rest of us, it’s mostly a punch line. In either case, nobody wants to be…

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What Is Content Security and Why Do You Need It?

August 18, 2022

In a nutshell, content security refers to any methods you employ to protect access to and distribution of your content. This could be as basic as user login credentials for your OTT streaming platform or…

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Announcing: Real-Time Streaming at Scale for European Customers

August 11, 2022

Wowza Video’s Real-Time Streaming at Scale brings the ultra-low latency power of WebRTC to a wider audience using a dynamically scalable workflow. Since its initial release a year ago, Real-Time Streaming at Scale has reliably…

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Secure Video Streaming Tactics: Video DRM, Geo-blocking, and More (Update)

August 10, 2022

  Successfully delivering live and on-demand video content starts with choosing a secure video streaming platform. Unauthorized access can compromise the revenue-boosting strategies of subscription and pay-per-view services. If a streaming implementation involves sensitive or…

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What Is CMAF? (Update)

August 4, 2022

The battle to reduce video latency while maintaining a quality viewer experience had been leading to widespread adoption of the aptly named Common Media Application Format (CMAF). This protocol is the product of a coordinated…

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