NEW RELEASE! Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.20

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With Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.20, here’s what changed:

  • Scaling for CPU and GPUs is now available to configure in Wowza
    Streaming Engine Manager.
  • Access to MPEG-TS SCTE-35 tags for DASH streaming now
  • available
  • Assorted bug fixes

Scaling option - Wowza Streaming Engine transcoder manager
With Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.20, you can set the scaling preset to Default
or CUDA implementation. The Default implementation enables the built-in
software video scaler that uses the CPU resources, whereas the CUDA
implementation enables the NVIDIA-CUDA GPU video scaling.

Access MPEG-TS SCTE-35 tags for DASH streaming
With Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.20, you can use the Wowza Streaming Engine
Java API to access MPEG-TS SCTE-35 tags for DASH streaming for a live stream.

Full list of fixes:

  • Added scaling option to Wowza Streaming Engine Transcoder Manager.
  • Updated Wowza Streaming Cloud to Wowza Video in Stream Target
  • Manager.
  • Removed references to Adobe HDS and MS Smooth Streaming.
  • Fixed a slow memory leak in cupertino packetizer with WebRTC to HLS.
  • Fixed an issue with transcoder not starting the encode job on certain
  • sources.
  • Fixed a bug with RTMP publishing using a bitrate above 25mbps.
  • Fixed an issue with transcoder freezing on certain sources when using
  • Safari’s native HLS Player.
  • Implemented a feature where all playback types are unchecked by
  • default during the new application setup process.
  • Implemented a feature to add support for SCTE-35 Tags in MPEG-DASH
  • live streams.
  • Implemented a feature to use Beamr’s video processing library as the
  • default software scaler.

Download Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.20 today.
For step-by-step instructions on how to install or update Wowza Streaming
Engine, see the following articles: