Streaming Server Comparison - nakaly’s notes

My colleagues and I made an app that can do live streaming with style-transfer filter. (its repo) last year.

I did some research about streaming servers.

WOWZA

A widely-used commercial streaming server. It’s not free since it’s a commercial product. Free trial is available.

A open source streaming server written in Java. It’s used in nicocast

NGINX-based Media Streaming Server. It’s impmented as nginx module. Open souce.

A open source streaming server written in C++. According to their wiki, it’s efficiency is better than nginx or WOWZA.

I tried both nginx-rtmp-module and SRS. Even though it’s wiki says that SRS is better than nginx, I couldn’t find noticeable difference.