Factsheet¶
Table of Contents
Supported Players¶
| Protocol | Player |
|---|---|
| HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) | Flash Player 10.1, Flowplayer, Adobe OSMF, Strobe, Adobe Air |
| HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (iOS 3.0 or later), QuickTime Player (10.0 or later), Safari (4.0 or later on Snow Leopard), Other HLS compatible players (JWPlayer, Inside Secure, NexPlayer - e.a.) Android 3 or later |
| HTTP Smooth Streaming (HSS) | Silverlight 3 or later, XBox, Windows Phone |
| MPEG DASH | Inside Secure, BuyDRM, Opera, castLabs, Dash.js, Vualto, BitMovin, Adobe, JWPLayer Intertrust Wasabi Marlin Client SDK, THEOplayer |
| Progressive MP4 (VOD) | Android 2.2/3, legacy players, STBs |
| HbbTV 1.5 | LG, Samsung, Panasonic |
| Connected TV | Samsung, LG, Phillips, Sony, Panasonic |
For MPEG_DASH playout see also Which devices support DASH playback? and Which browsers support DASH playback?.
Supported DRM systems¶
| DRM | Protocol |
|---|---|
| Adobe Primetime DRM | HDS |
| AES-128 | HLS (TS) |
| SAMPLE-AES | HLS (TS & fMP4) |
| FairPlay DRM | HLS (TS & fMP4) |
| Verimatrix VCAS | HLS (TS) |
| Irdeto SKE | HLS (TS) |
| Irdeto PlayReady | HLS (TS) |
| Irdeto PRSL | HLS (TS) |
| Discretix PlayReady | HLS (TS) |
| Conax PlayReady | HLS (TS) |
| PlayReady Envelope | HLS (TS) |
| Marlin | HLS (TS) |
| Adobe Primetime DRM | HLS (TS) |
| Cisco VG | HLS (TS) |
| Nagra Media PRM | HLS (TS) |
| Microsoft PlayReady | HSS, HLS (fMP4), MPEG-DASH |
| Adobe Primetime DRM | MPEG-DASH |
| Marlin | MPEG-DASH |
| Widevine | HLS (fMP4), MPEG-DASH |
| Latens Titanium URM (Arris) | MPEG-DASH |
| Nagra Media PRM | MPEG-DASH |
| Cisco VG | MPEG-DASH |
| ViaccesOrca (VODRM) | MPEG-DASH |
Supported Codecs¶
| Codec | Type | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| AOMedia AV1 (av1-isobmff v1.0.0) | Video | MPEG-DASH (no DRM) |
| H.265 / HEVC (ISO/IEC 23008-2) | Video | HLS, MPEG-DASH, HSS |
| H.264 / AVC3 (ISO/IEC 14496-10) | Video | DVB-DASH |
| H.264 / AVC1 (ISO/IEC 14496-10) | Video | All formats |
| VC-1 / SMPTE 421M | Video | HSS (Silverlight only) |
| VP9 | Video | MPEG-DASH |
| DTS HD/Express | Audio | HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
| AAC / MPEG 4-AAC (LC, HE) (ISO/IEC 14496-3) | Audio | All formats |
| Dolby Digital (AC-3) | Audio | HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
| Dolby Digital+ (EC-3) | Audio | HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
| Dolby Atmos | Audio | HLS, MPEG-DASH |
| Fraunhofer HE-AAC multichannel | Audio | MPEG-DASH |
| MPEG 1-Audio Layer 3 | Audio | HLS |
| WMA Pro | Audio | HSS (Silverlight Only) |
Supported Formats¶
| Format | Version |
|---|---|
| DVB-DASH | DVB Document A168 July 2014 |
| HbbTV | 1.5 (MPEG-DASH), 2.0 (DVB-DASH) |
| HDS | Version 1 and version 2 (late binding) |
| HLS | Version 1 to 7 (Both TS and fMP4) |
| MPEG-DASH | ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.3 (ISOBMFF On Demand profile) |
| MPEG-DASH | ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.4 (ISOBMFF Live profile) |
| MPEG-DASH | ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.5 (ISOBMFF Main profile) |
| MPEG-DASH | ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.6 (MPEG-2 TS Main profile) |
| MPEG-DASH | DASH-AVC/264 section 6.3 |
| HSS | PIFF 1.0, 1.1 |
Supported Ingest¶
| Format | Comment |
|---|---|
| CMAF | ISO/IEC 23000-19 Common Media Application Format |
| fragmented MP4 | MPEG-DASH, Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF) |
| MP4 | ISO/IEC 14496-14 |
| F4M Live | Adobe Media Server, Wowza |
| HLS | VOD only, see Using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) as source |
| Common File Format (CFF) | ISO/IEC 14496-12 |
| TTML (SMPTE-TT, EBU-TT, DFXP), SRT, ISMT, WebVTT | Subtitle/Captions input/output formats |
| High Dynamic Range (HDR) | Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG |
| Timed Metadata (ISOBMFF) | SCTE-35, DASH Event Messages ("emsg"), ID3 tags |
Supported Encoders¶
Our software is compatible with the output of encoders from a wide variety of vendors, like Ateme, Beamr, Cisco, AWS Elemental, Harmonic, Media Excel and Telestream.
For Live, all encoders that produce output according to Live Media and Metadata Ingest Protocol are supported.
For VOD, the basic requirement is that your audio and video content is contained in ISO BMFF (i.e., (f)MP4) with GOP alignment across bitrates and all video fragments starting with an IDR frame. For text and timed metadata, additional formats are supported: Supported Ingest. Also, a HLS stream that adheres to a strict set of requirements may be used as ingest for Unified Origin for VOD (although this is not recommended): Using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) as source.
Furthermore, content should be encoded in one of the Supported Codecs for both Live and VOD.
System Requirements¶
Recommended hardware¶
| Type | Size |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 or similar |
| RAM | 16GB |
| Storage | 1 TB |
| Ethernet | 1 Gb/s |
Note that the mentioned ethernet capability is easily maxed out, so when possible prefer 10 Gb/s.
Minimum recommended configuration¶
| Type | Size |
|---|---|
| CPU | Single core |
| RAM | 1GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| Ethernet | 1 Gb/s |
This kind of configuration is typically encountered in Cloud and Containers environments when scaling horizontally.
Supported Operating Systems¶
| OS | Version |
|---|---|
| CentOS | 6/7 |
| Debian | 8/9 |
| Ubuntu | 16/18 |
| Windows Server | 2016 |
Redhat and Oracle Linux are possible as well, based on the CentOS build.
Supported Webservers¶
| Webserver | Version | OS | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 2.4 | Windows, Linux | VOD & LIVE |
Attention
Nginx depreciation from 1.9 on.
Going forward, we limit our support for new installations to Apache and recommend a switch to Apache for setups currently running on NGINX. We will continue to support NGINX for existing customers for both VOD and Live, but we won't work on feature development for it. In short, support for NGINX should be considered deprecated. Do note that this does not affect our recommendations of using NGINX in other parts of your video streaming setup, such as for (shield) caching.
See also What is the preferred webserver for media delivery? for a detailed outline and background.