Encoder Support
ADOBE FLASH MEDIA ENCODER
Streaming Media Hosting is an Authorized Adobe FVSS (Flash Video Streaming Service) Partner and is HD ready.
WIRECAST SOFTWARE
Wirecast software lets you produce professional-looking live events with just a camera, internet connection and a computer.
NEWTEK
NewTek -All-in-one, integrated live production system that offers the power of a live network studio.
VIEWCAST
ViewCast – designed with a combination of simplicity, portability and power. A great way to quickly stream live events over the internet, as well as live streaming to mobile digital devices.
XSPLIT
XSplit Broadcaster is a desktop application designed to make your multimedia broadcasting and recording a lot easier and more fun to do.
MICROSOFT EXPRESSION ENCODER
Expression Encoder 4 with is an advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application that provides new feature support, updates, and stability enhancements.
TERADEK CUBE
Compact, light weight, and built like a tank, the Teradek Cube is the smallest and most durable camera-top HD encoder on the market. With its new built-in Li-Ion battery, OLED display, microSD port, and MIMO Wifi technology, Cube takes wireless streaming to a new level.
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Supported players and servers
Clients
Product Platform Live Streaming DRM As of Version Editor Safari (web browser) OS X, iOS Yes Yes 6.0+
Has full HLS support.Apple Google Chrome (web browser) Windows, OS X, Android, iOS Partial Yes 30+
Supported on Android and iOS. Unsupported on desktop OSes.Google Microsoft Edge (web browser) Windows 10 Yes Yes Microsoft QuickTime Player (media player) OS X Yes Yes 10.0+
Has full HLS support.Apple iTunes (music player) Windows, OS X Yes Yes 10.1+[24]
Has full HLS support. To play a HLS stream, go to File > Open Stream and replace “http://” with “itls://” (for video streams) or “itals://” (for audio streams) in the stream URL.Apple VLC media player (media player) Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone Partial No 2.0[25]
Has partial HLS support. VLC may load the playlist as individual chunks instead of a gapless live stream for some server configurations. This causes a slight pause or missing audio between each file segment.[26]VideoLAN Media Player Classic Home Cinema(media player) Windows Yes Yes Gabest, Doom9forum users PotPlayer(media player) Windows Yes Yes Daum Communications MPlayer / SMPlayer / mpv (media player) Windows, Linux Yes Yes Ricardo Villalba GOM Player(media player) Windows Yes Yes Gretech Audacious (software)(music player) Windows, Linux Yes Yes Audacious Radio Tray (radio player) Linux Yes Yes Carlos Ribeiro Kodi (software)(home entertainment application) Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS Yes Partial 12.0 Alpha 5 and later
DRM support requires a monthly/nightly buildXBMC Foundation MythTV(home entertainment application) Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD Yes Yes 0.26 MythTV JRiver Media Center (home entertainment application) Windows, OS X Yes Yes JRiver XiiaLive (radio player) Android, iOS Yes Yes 3.0+
Plays internet radio streams (audio only).Visual Blasters LLC Tunein radio(radio player) Android, iOS Yes Yes 3.3+
Plays internet radio streams (audio only).TuneIn myTuner Radio (radio player) Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, OS X Yes Yes AppGeneration Software Internet Radio Player (radio player) Android Yes Yes MuserTech GuguRadio (radio player) iOS Yes Yes Leon Fan MX Player (media player) Android, iOS Yes Yes J2 Interactive RockPlayer (media player) Android, iOS Yes Yes Shanghai ChangeTech Co. Ltd. DicePlayer (media player) Android 2.2+ Yes Yes Diceplayer 1.0+ INISOFT HP Touchpad WebOS Yes Yes 3.0.5 HP Amino x4x STB Amino set-top boxes Yes Yes 2.5.2 Aminet Aminocom.com Dune HD TV Dune HD set-top boxes Yes Yes TV Series dunehd.com nangu.TV Motorola set-top boxes Yes Yes 2.0 nangu.TV Roku Digital Video Player Roku set-top boxes Yes Yes Roku OS / SDK 2.6 Roku Telebreeze Player (online service) HTML, Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, Roku STB, MAG250, Samsung SmartTV, LG SmartTV, T503, Enigma Yes Yes 3.2 Telebreeze bitdash (SDK) HTML5 or Flash, Web and Mobile Yes Yes Version 3.0+ bitmovin 3ivx (SDK) Windows 8, Windows Phone 8[27]& Xbox One[28] Yes Yes 2.0 3ivx THEOplayer (SDK)[29] HTML5 Yes Yes OpenTelly Viblast Player (SDK) HTML5, iOS, Android Yes Partial Viblast Ltd Flowplayer (SDK) Adobe Flash, iOS, Android Yes Yes The Flash HLS plugin is available from GitHub. Flowplayer Ltd JW Player(SDK) Adobe Flash, iOS, Android Yes Yes A Premium or Enterprise license is required for HLS support. JW Player Radiant Media Player (SDK) Adobe Flash, HTML5 Yes Yes 1.5.0[30] Radiant Media Player Yospace (SDK) Adobe Flash Yes Yes 2.1 Yospace Onlinelib (SDK) Adobe Flash Yes Yes 2.0 Onlinelib.de VODOBOX HLS Player (online service) Adobe Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android Yes Yes Vodobox NexPlayer (SDK) iOS, Android, Windows Phone Yes Yes NexStreaming ffplay/avplay (multimedia framework) Yes Partial FFmpeg/Libav GPAC(multimedia framework) Yes No 0.5.0 Telecom ParisTech inc. QuickPlayer (SDK) Android, iOS, Windows 7, 8, 8,1 and 10 Yes Yes Squadeo hls.js (MSE) MSE Browsers Yes Unknown Daily Motion open source [20][21] hasplayer.js (MSE) MSE Browsers Yes Unknown open source [22] Hola Player (video player) HTML5, Adobe Flash, iOS, Android Yes Yes All versions Hola Ltd open source [31] Servers
Product Technology As Of Version Editor Free Notes Keepixo Genova Live Bundled software for transcoding to H.264 & HEVC, and packaging to HLS, MPEG-DASH, MS Smooth Streaming Keepixo No bitcodin SaaS bitmovin No [32] VLC 1.2 Yes Once SaaS Brightcove No IIS Media Services 4.0[17] Microsoft No Antik Media Streamer Ingest Module (UDP/HTTP Transport Stream, Backup Stream with auto-switching, stream status monitoring and logging), Stream replication UDP/HTTP, HLS streaming, Video archive with snapshots, Server-side Timeshift, Timezone Shifting with multi-timezones, Stream Encryption using AES and key-rotation (with Antik Key Server) 3.0 Antik technology No Adobe Media Server Live and VOD streaming as origin and edge server 5.0 Adobe No Evostream Media Server Cross-platform including embedded systems such as encoders, IP cameras, DVRs, and more. Supports: Adobe Flash RTMP, RTMPS, LiveFLV, full transcoder for creating lower bitrate streams, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for streaming to iPhones, iPads and Androids, HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) for Adobe Air, Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS) for Microsoft devices, RTSP with RTP or MPEG-TS, MPEG-TS (unicast/multicast), compatible Live Encoding, strong security for your content ( Verimatrix DRM, HLS AES encryption, Stream Aliasing, Watermarking), built-in clustering mechanism and more. 1.6.5 EvoStream No MythTV 0.25 MythTV Yes MACNETIX VOD-Server 3.0 MACNETIX No Anevia ViaMotion Servers Transcapsulation: from one input, several outputs
(HLS, MS Smooth Streaming, ADS Flash, MPEG DASH)Anevia No Packet Ship OverView:Origin Server Capture from IPTV multicast and chunking to HLS for multi-bandwidth live streams, with AES encryption 2.1 Packet Ship No nangu.TV Streamers on-the-fly adaptation: content is stored once enabling several outputs
(HLS, MS Smooth Streaming, ADS Flash, MPEG DASH)nangu.TV No TVersity Media Server 1.9 TVersity No Pro Edition only Helix Universal Server Live + VOD HLS with Verimatrix DRM integration, ABR, Multi-Resolution, AES encryption 15.0+ RealNetworks No High performance HLS (12,000+ concurrent devices) Wowza Streaming Engine Live and VOD streaming as origin and edge server with DVR, DRM Integration and Transcoding for adaptive delivery. Outputs to MPEG-DASH, HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming, RTMP, and RTSP 2.0+ Wowza Media Systems No Unified Streaming Platform Muxes media content from one unified source to multiple outputs (Smooth Streaming, HDS, HLS and MPEG DASH) Unified Streaming No VODOBOX Live Server Outputs HTTP Live Streaming with Adaptive bitrate streaming (up to 6 simultaneous qualities).
Video codecs : AVC H.264 / HEVC H.265
Audio codecs : MP3 / AAC
Transport layers : HTTP / FTP / Amazon AWS S3 / Microsoft Azure Web Storage / writing to disk (NetBios / Samba)
Hostings : internal HTTP Web server and/or external Web servers (ex: Apache HTTP server, Microsoft IIS, Nginx, etc.)1.0 Vodobox Yes Supports input live streams from DVB-T devices, satellite receivers (Dreambox), IP streams (RTSP, RTMP, MMS, HTTP), Microsoft DirectShow drivers (video capture cards, live production software, camera). Encoder is compliant with Intel Quick Sync Video and Nvidia NVENChardware acceleration. Flixwagon Platform Video Server Flixwagon No StreamCoder Live Encoder Realtime video encoder (inputs : DVB/IP stream or video signal). Supports multi-bitrates and multi-languages Ektacom No Apache HTTP Server Apache Software Foundation Yes Unreal Media Server 9.5 Unreal Streaming Technologies No Latency of live streams can be as low as 2.5 seconds over the Internet Nimble Streamer RTMP / RTSP / Icecast / MPEG-TS to ABR HLS. MP4 / MP3 to VOD HLS 1.0.0-x WMSPanel No Nginx-rtmp-module Free module for nginx server with support of HLS live streaming. Compliant with iOS and Android. 0.9.x Roman Arutyunyan Yes Nginx Plus VOD HLS as origin NGINX, Inc. No Flussonic Media Server Multi-platform support for HTTP, RTSP, RTMP, DASH, Time Shifting, DVR Functions with Unlimited Rewind Capabilities HLS streaming specific to iOS platform support. 3.0+ Flussonic, LLC. No Supporting a magnitude of features with full HTTP support. VBrick Distributed Media Engine (“DME”) 2.0 VBrick Systems, Inc. No Live and stored HLS. Live can be transmuxed from several input mux including RTP, RTMP, and MPEG-TS using H.264 encoding Telebreeze Coder / Media Server HLS, MPEG-TS, RTMP, TimeShift, VoD, DVR, Hardware Acceleration 2.0 Telebreeze No LEADTOOLS Media Streaming Server SDK Converts files on the fly to Adobe HDS, Apple HLS, MPEG-DASH, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, RTSP. 19.0 LEAD Technologies No MC-ROUTE Multifunctional software for live stream routing and protocol conversion 4.4 Teracue No Supported protocols: TS over UDP, RTP, TCP, HLS, HTTP, RTSP/RTP Live Encoders
Product Technology As Of Version Editor Free Notes ENC-400 Series Live hardware encoder with SDI or HDMI 1.0 Teracue No Supported protocols: TS over UDP,RTP, TCP, RTP/RTSP, RTMP push, HLS VOD encoders
Product Technology As Of Version Editor Free Notes VODOBOX HLS Encoder Converts video files into pre-encoded HLS Adaptive bitrate streaming, ready to be hosted and broadcast through Apache HTTP server / Microsoft IIS / Nginx Web servers. Supports AVC H.264 / HEVC H.265 / Alternate Audio / Alternate Subtitles. 1.0 Vodobox Yes Transcode classic video files (avi, mp4, m2ts, mkv, …) into HLS streams with multi-qualities for VOD or replay usage. Hardware encoding can be accelerated by Intel Quick Sync Videoand Nvidia NVENCtechnologies. http://www.wikiwand.com/en/HTTP_Live_Streaming