Factsheet
Supported Codecs
Codec |
Type |
Comment |
|---|---|---|
AOMedia AV1 (av1-isobmff v1.2.0) |
Video |
HLS, MPEG-DASH |
H.266 / VVC (ISO/IEC 23090-3) |
Video |
HLS, MPEG-DASH |
H.265 / HEVC (ISO/IEC 23008-2) |
Video |
HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
H.264 / AVC3 (ISO/IEC 14496-10) |
Video |
DVB-DASH |
H.264 / AVC1 (ISO/IEC 14496-10) |
Video |
All formats |
LCEVC |
Video |
MPEG-DASH |
VC-1 / SMPTE 421M |
Video |
HSS (Silverlight only) |
VP9 |
Video |
MPEG-DASH |
AAC / MPEG 4-AAC (LC, HE) (ISO/IEC 14496-3) |
Audio |
All formats |
DTS HD/Express |
Audio |
HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
DTS:X (DTS-UHD profile 2) |
Audio |
MPEG-DASH |
Dolby Digital (AC-3) |
Audio |
HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
Dolby Digital+ (EC-3) |
Audio |
HLS, HSS, MPEG-DASH |
Dolby Atmos |
Audio |
HLS, MPEG-DASH |
Dolby AC-4 |
Audio |
MPEG-DASH (single and multiple presentation) |
FLAC |
Audio |
HLS (fMP4), MPEG-DASH |
Fraunhofer HE-AAC multichannel |
Audio |
MPEG-DASH |
xHE-AAC |
Audio |
MPEG-DASH |
MPEG 1-Audio Layer 3 |
Audio |
HLS |
MPEG-H |
Audio |
HLS, MPEG-DASH |
WMA Pro |
Audio |
HSS (Silverlight Only) |
Note
The Unified Streaming Platform supports all resolutions up to 4K, and even higher resolutions should not pose any immediate problems either. However, do note that to successfully deliver 4K to Apple devices using HLS, using fMP4 HLS is required (so, not HLS TS).
Supported DRM systems
DRM |
Protocol |
|---|---|
AES-128 |
HLS (TS) |
SAMPLE-AES |
HLS (TS & fMP4) |
FairPlay DRM |
HLS (TS & fMP4) |
China DRM |
HLS (TS) |
Conax PlayReady |
HLS (TS) |
Irdeto PlayReady |
HLS (TS) |
PlayReady Envelope |
HLS (TS) |
Verimatrix VCAS |
HLS (TS) |
Adobe Primetime DRM |
MPEG-DASH, HDS, HLS (TS) |
Cisco VG |
MPEG-DASH, HLS (TS) |
Latens Titanium URM (Arris) |
MPEG-DASH |
Marlin |
MPEG-DASH, HLS (TS) |
Microsoft PlayReady |
MPEG_DASH, HLS (fMP4), HSS |
Nagra Media PRM |
MPEG-DASH, HLS (TS) |
ViaccesOrca (VODRM) |
MPEG-DASH |
Widevine |
MPEG-DASH, HLS (fMP4) |
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 Interface 1 of the DASH-IF Live Media Ingest specification 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.
Supported Formats
Format |
Version |
|---|---|
DVB-DASH |
|
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 (ISO BMFF On Demand profile) |
MPEG-DASH |
ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.4 (ISO BMFF Live profile) |
MPEG-DASH |
ISO/IEC 23009-1 section 8.5 (ISO BMFF 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 |
Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF), MPEG-DASH (VOD only) |
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 (ISO BMFF) |
MPEG-B part 18, SCTE 35, DASH Event Messages ("emsg"), ID3 tags |
Supported Players
Protocol |
Player |
|---|---|
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) |
iPhone, 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.) |
MPEG-DASH |
DASH.js, Shaka PLayer, Bitmovin Player JW Player, NexPlayer, THEOplayer, Android 3 or later, Intertrust Wasabi Marlin Client SDK |
HTTP Smooth Streaming (HSS) |
Silverlight 3 or later, XBox, Windows Phone |
HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) |
Flash Player 10.1, Flowplayer, Adobe OSMF, Strobe, Adobe Air |
Progressive MP4 (VOD) |
Android 2.2/3, legacy players, STBs |
HbbTV 1.5, 2.0 |
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?.
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 environments when scaling horizontally.
Supported Operating Systems
Please see which OS and wich version is supported in the 'End Of Life' section below.
AlmaLinux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are possible as well, based on the Rocky Linux builds.
Supported Webservers
Webserver |
Version |
OS |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
Apache |
2.4 |
Windows, Linux |
VOD & LIVE |
Attention
NGINX DEPRECATION!
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.
End Of Life
Unified Streaming Platform is available for various Operating Systems. We always try to stay current and we will cease development on a particular OS release before the OS vendor's end of life of that OS release.
To allow for a smooth OS upgrade cycle, we aim to have some overlap and simultaneously support both the latest major (LTS) versions and the previous. We recommend using this grace period to for side-by-side comparison.
Because different distributions rotate at a different pace, the upgrade horizon differs as well. Customers using Ubuntu LTS should typically upgrade every 2 years, while Alpine — which is typically provisioned in an automated setting (i.e. kubernetes, docker or LXC) — should re-provision at least once per year.
Below table shows an overview of sunset dates for each target platform. We recommend using a recent OS release with our software to avoid depending on artifacts that are close to sunset.
Distributions that we no longer support are available under the unsupported subpath. E.g. for CentOS 7 packages previously available at: https://stable.yum.unified-streaming.com/ can still be downloaded from: https://stable.yum.unified-streaming.com/unsupported/centos/7/x86_64/
OS |
Version |
EOL |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
Alpine |
3.21 |
November 2026 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
3.20 |
April 2026 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
|
3.19 |
November 2025 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
|
3.18 |
May 2024 |
EOL after 1.14.1 |
|
Debian |
12 |
June 2026 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only |
11 |
December 2023 |
EOL after 1.13.0 |
|
Rocky Linux |
9 |
May 2028 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only |
8 |
May 2026 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only |
|
Ubuntu |
24 |
April 2029 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
22 |
April 2027 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
|
20 |
May 2025 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and AArch64 (ARM) |
|
18 |
April 2023 |
EOL after 1.12.4 |
|
Windows |
11 |
No EOL known yet |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |
10 |
October 2025 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |
|
Windows Server |
2025 |
October 2034 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |
2022 |
October 2031 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |
|
2019 |
January 2029 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |
|
2016 |
January 2027 |
x86_64 (Intel, AMD) only; Apache 2.4, IIS |