Encoding

Encoding technology for VOD & Live Broadcast

Our platform easily handles all types of transcoding for both VOD and live broadcasts.

Encoding

Encoding technology for VOD & Live Broadcast

Our platform easily handles all types of transcoding for both VOD and live broadcasts.

Encoding

Encoding technology for VOD & Live Broadcast

Our platform easily handles all types of transcoding for both VOD and live broadcasts.

Encoding

Encoding technology for VOD & Live Broadcast

Our platform easily handles all types of transcoding for both VOD and live broadcasts.

Seamless Streaming

VOD Encoding

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content
at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content
at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Upload via Media Manager

Upload content directly to your property in MainStreaming Media Manager.

Follow the progress of the encoding phase, reorder the thumbnails and choose the poster image. You can reencode with a different profile.

Your content is now ready to be distributed and will be usable on devices at the highest possible quality.

Developer API

Mainstreaming allows its customers to push content into MainStreaming Media Manager not only via our UI, but also via a REST API. See some examples below.

For more advanced scenarios and a complete documentation, please visit our dedicated page

Mainstreaming allows its customers to push content into MainStreaming Media Manager not only via our UI, but also via a REST API. See some examples below.

For more advanced scenarios and a complete documentation, please visit our dedicated page

Mainstreaming allows its customers to push content into MainStreaming Media Manager not only via our UI, but also via a REST API. See some examples below.

For more advanced scenarios and a complete documentation, please visit our dedicated page

Developer API docs

By Chunks

Unset

curl --location 'https://api.msmdn.net/v2/mam/ondemand'
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOtJIUzIlNiIsInR5.
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
--form 'profile="828c3395-0303-45cd-9651-bd7226b31000"
--form 'file=@"chunk 1.mp4"'
--form 'referenceId="0-0"'
--form 'chunks="4"'
--form 'chunk="1"'

By URL

Unset

curl --location 'https://api.msmdn.net/v2/mam/ondemand/http'
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsIn5.
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'
--data "{
"title": "myvod",
"contentUrl": "http://eu-centrall.sh.msmdn.net/source/original.mp4"
}

Distribute

H.264, H.265 and AV1

Transcode your VODs in H.264, H.265 and AV1 formats with multi renditions to have the best experience in multiple connection types.

Distribute your VODs in HLS and DASH (ABR or single rendition).

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Transcode your VODs in H.264, H.265 and AV1 formats with multi renditions to have the best experience in multiple connection types.

Distribute your VODs in HLS and DASH (ABR or single rendition).

Upload via Media Manager

Configure your encoding profiles on MainStreaming Media Manager or via our API, choose your default profile and start transcoding.

Configure content distribution in the chosen format (HLS, DASH or Progressive download). You can pick the type of chunk fragmentation and trim in a simple and intuitive way.

Live

Live Encoding

Resilient and configurable, our platform allows you to receive the stream from your software or hardware encoder in multiple formats, (SRT, RTMP, MPEG-TS over TCP/UDP), etc and distribute your audio and video stream through our CDN.

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Live inputs & outputs

MainStreaming Live encoders allows you to ingest SRT, RTMP, MPEG-TS over TCP/UDP and generate HLS and DASH packets.

The redundant and reliable multi-region platform manages input signal transient errors on primary and secondary channels. For example, you can send your data to a European region and transcode (primary and backup) on a US region.

MainStreaming Live encoders allows you to ingest SRT, RTMP, MPEG-TS over TCP/UDP and generate HLS and DASH packets.

H.264

Step By Step Configuration

Create a live source, create a live event and connect them to each other: start sending the flow and our platform will produce the packaged in HLS and DASH according to the chosen renditions.

Transcode your VODs with our platform to distribute content at the best possible quality even on slow connections.

Create a live source, create a live event and connect them to each other: start sending the flow and our platform will produce the packaged in HLS and DASH according to the chosen renditions.

For example

Low Resolution

420x270

400 kbps

Medium Resolution

640x360

800-1200 kbps

High Resolution

960x540

900-1500 kbps

HD Resolution

1280x720

1800-2500 kbps

Full HD Resolution

1920x1080

3200-4000 kbps

1. Set the device you want your input to go through:

1.

Format: H.264

Frame Rate: 25.00 fps or 29.76 fps

Input Size: 1280x720 with aspect ratio checked

Bitrate: 800 kbps

Output Size: 1280x720

2. To make sure your stream is prestine make sure it's set so:

2.

Profile: Main

Level: 5.0

Keyframe Frequency: 3 Seconds

3. The audio side should have these settings:

3.

Device: Microphone or another connected device

Format: MP3

Channels: Stereo

Sample Rate: 128 kbps

Bitrate: 128 kbps

Next, to link your encoder with your live stream, you need to edit the URL to:

The URL is the link you obtain from selecting the default (RTMP/SRT) encoder from the live sources. To get this link you need to select the source to open the configuration pane.  

Here you can also set up where you would like your content to be delivered from and what type of delay you would like for your stream (only for RTMP).

After copying the link, paste it into the URL section on your encoder and press connect or start streaming.

To make sure everything is connected, test out your live stream: you'll notice the status next to your preview video player under Live Information in the MainStreaming media manager.

To test your stream out, go to the Live Event linked to the source to see if the status of your stream has changed: if the status of your live stream has now changed, you can go back to your encoder and click as your stream is fully functional.

Optimized Live Streaming with Versatile Encoding Options

MainStreaming provides the best live streaming performance and quality on the market, so we selected a number of live encoders that allow you to fully utilize our next generation network.

Our Live Encoding Platform allows ingestion of any stream in one of the supported formats, whether it comes from a software or hardware encoder:

MainStreaming provides the best live streaming performance and quality on the market, so we selected a number of live encoders that allow you to fully utilize our next generation network.

Our Live Encoding Platform allows ingestion of any stream in one of the supported formats, whether it comes from a software or hardware encoder:

MainStreaming provides the best live streaming performance and quality on the market, so we selected a number of live encoders that allow you to fully utilize our next generation network.

Our Live Encoding Platform allows ingestion of any stream in one of the supported formats, whether it comes from a software or hardware encoder:

RTMP PUSH

RTSP PULL

ICECAST

HTTP PULL

HTTP PUSH

SRT (Beta)

MPEGTS UDP (Beta)

Some of the supported encoders:

Software

Adobe Flash Live Media Encoder

FFMPEG

Open Broadcast Software (OBS) Studio

Hardware

AWS

MetroX

Ospray

EpiPhan

TeraDek

Harmonic

Haivision

AVerCaster

Caton NVE901

NewTek TriCaster

DigiCast DMB - 8800A

Vecoder

Marshall VS-102

FMusers Series Encoder

Z3Stream & Z3Stream-SDI

Tytion Encoder

TBS 2600V1

Imagine Communications

BoxCast HD

HDmediacast

Vecaster 4K & Vecaster HEVC

Blackmagic Design Encoders

J-Tech digital encoders

Upload via Media Manager

Here you'll find our recommendations about how to set up your encoders to have the best results with our backend configuration (fragments, chunk, playlist, etc.). If desired, you can use a different configuration but we can't assure the best end-user experience. Of course, if you or your clients have specific needs, feel free to ask to our experts about a specific setup.

Bitrate

The following table shows our recommended resolutions, bitrates and frames per seconds.

Low Resolution

420x270

400 kbps

Medium Resolution

640x360

800-1200 kbps

High Resolution

960x540

900-1500 kbps

HD Resolution

1280x720

1800-2500 kbps

Full HD Resolution

1920x1080

3200-4000 kbps

Audio/Video Recommendation

The following are our recommended audio formats and bitrates. Video with music content: 128Kbps MP3 or 256Kbps AAC / 2 channel Stereo Video with speech (ex.: closeups, interviews, news, etc.) content: 32-64Kbps MP3 or AAC / 1 channel Mono

Video Codec

H.264 is available for your encoder. Level A higher compression level will improve the content quality, but it's burdensome for the encoder CPU and for the client device (browser, etc.) to decode it. We recommend to use the medium level supported by your encoder. If you are using the H.264 profile, Main would be a good starting point instead of Baseline or High.

Keyframe/GOP

The keyframe should be passed at every GOP interval. If you are using 25fps (recommended), the GOP should be a multiple of 25 - from 1 to 8 seconds From our Source control panel on Media Manager you can see the three pre-set settings, clicking on them you'll notice the RTMP string changing:

DEFAULT (rtmp://bc.msmdn.net/event/...): recommended setting = keyframe 3 or GOP 75 (90 with 30fps)

LOW DELAY (rtmp://bc.msmdn.net/eventll/...): recommended setting = keyframe 1 or GOP 25 (30 with 30fps)

HIGH BUFFER (rtmp://bc.msmdn.net/eventhb/...): recommended setting = keyframe 6 or GOP 150 (180 with 30fps)

In this way the keyframe/GOP will match with the chunks length so the streaming will be optimized for the bandwidth, obtaining a better quality with the same bitrate. Increasing the GOP will improve the quality of your content, decreasing it will lower the delay instead