IPTV Live Video Encoding & Streaming Specifications

Software Specification

Input Formats Supported

Apple HTTP Live Stream (DRM)
MMS over TCP / HTTP tunnelling
RTSP over UDP / TCP
RTMP / RTMPE / RTMPS / RTMPT
RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol RFC 3550)
MPEG-2 TS over HTTP/UDP/RTP
FTP / SFTP
Newtek NDI
Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)
Microsoft DirectShow Compatible Capture / Crossbar Device
- USB Webcam
- Digital (Video) Camera (firewire cable connected)
- PCI-E Video Capture Card (Blackmagic Intensity/Decklink, TBS, Osprey, etc)
Blackmagic DeckLink Capture Cards thru DeckLink API
Screencast
Multimedia File
- Audio Files: pcm, wav, mp3, amr, wma, voc, ogg, au
- Video Files: avi, mpg, mp4, mov, mkv, ts, wmv, asf, 3gp, vob, flv, swf, rm, rmvb, webm
- Picture Files: bmp, jpg, gif, png, tiff, webp, svg

Output Formats Supported

RTMP / RTMPE / RTMPS / RTMPT
MPEG-TS (SPTS/MPTS) over HTTP/UDP/RTP
MP4 over HTTP (HTML5 video)
Apple HTTP Live Streaming (DRM) - local index(.m3u8) and segment(.ts) files saving or HTTP server uploading thru "PUT"
MPEG-DASH (in .mpd index file and .m4s segment files)
Newtek NDI
Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)
MJPEG over HTTP
Local/FTP/SFTP Video File (.mov / .mp4 / .mkv / .mpg / .ts)
Blackmagic DeckLink Playback Cards thru DeckLink API

Codecs Supported

Audio

AAC-LC / HE-AAC
Webm Opus
AC3 / E-AC3
MP2 / MP3
PCM / G.7xx
AMR
Real Audio
Windows Media Audio

Video

AV1
H.265 / HEVC (Main/Main 10/Main SP)
H.264 / AVC (Baseline/Main/High/High 10/High 4:2:2/High 4:4:4)
Webm VP8
Webm VP9
MPEG-4/Visual
H.263+/++ (aka H.263-1998/2000)
H.263
JPEG/MJPEG
MPEG-1 Video
MPEG-2 Video
Real Video
Flash Video
Windows Media Video
On2 VP6

Subtitle

dvb/dvd subtitle
dvb teletext
closed caption (CEA/EIA-608, CEA/EIA-708)
srt/subrip
webvtt
movtext

Hardware Acceleration

NVIDIA GPU NVENC / NVDEC / CUVID H.264 / HEVC / AV1 Encoding & Decoding (on NVDIA RTX/Quadro/GRID/Tesla models with Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal/Turing/Ampere GPU)
NVIDIA GPU Video Resizing (NPP Scale)
Intel Quick Sync Video H.264 / HEVC / AV1 Encoding & Decoding (Intel processors with HD Graphics required)
AMD Advanced Media Framework H.264 / HEVC / AV1 Encoding
DXVA2 Accelerated Decoding (Available on Windows)

Output Video Resolution

UHD (2K/4K)
HDTV (1280x720/1920x1080)
SDTV (720x576)
4CIF (704x576)
VGA (640x480)
CIF (352x288)
QVGA (320x240)
QCIF (176x144)
SQCIF (128x96)
Custom/User-specified (H.263+/H.264/MPEG-4/HEVC)

System Requirements

Processor: 2GHz Minimum. The higher the better. Multi-core CPU / GPU recommended. See FAQ for more.
RAM: 100MB per channel
Ethernet NIC
OS:
- Microsoft Windows® 7/8/10 64-bit or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2016 64-bit with VisualC++ 2013 redistributable package
- Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu, CentOS Stream, RHEL, Debian) kernel 4.x or above