In this release, we’ve increased the flexibility of Media Cache deployment options by adding Microsoft Azure BLOB storage as a supported Media Cache source for media files. The Media Cache feature in Wowza Streaming Engine is a read-through caching mechanism that increases the scalability of on-demand video streaming. For more information, see How to send a live stream to Wowza Streaming Cloud. This option starts the Wowza Streaming Cloud transcoder immediately and publishes the source stream. Wowza Streaming Engine 4.4.0 has a new option that can automatically start the Wowza Streaming Cloud service when you create a Wowza Streaming Cloud stream target. The Stream Targets feature allows you to send live streams to content delivery networks (CDNs), streaming servers, streaming services, and multicast networks for distributed delivery. For more information, see How to enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) for HTTP-based connections. Wowza Streaming Engine 4.4.0 enables you to configure cross-origin HTTP access-control settings so that a website on one domain can deliver HTTP-based streaming video from a streaming media server in a different domain. A common example is a website in one domain that requests video from a streaming media server in a different domain.

Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.4 highlights include:Ĭross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for HTTP connectionsĬORS allows resources to be requested from a domain outside the one where the request originated.

The latest version features Stream Targets enhancements, CORS for HTTP connections, WebM stream encryption for MPEG-DASH, Works With Wowza™ integration for The Telos Alliance audio encoders, and more. The new version of Wowza Streaming Engine™-4.4.0 build 17695-was released on February 2, 2016.

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