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  • VOD dynamic packaging Stream from a single source
  • Live streaming Live stream with restart & catch-up
  • Ad replacement for live Live stream with ads
  • Ad insertion for VOD VOD stream with ads
  • Content stitching for VOD Create personalized streams
  • Live2VOD Produce VOD from Live streams
  • Manifest customization Compile device-specific manifests
  • Audio streaming Stream audio everywhere

Solutions to address all your streaming needs.

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These software products serve all your streaming needs.

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  • Virtual channels Maximize your content!
  • VOD static packaging Prepare content for streaming
  • VOD dynamic packaging Stream from a single source
  • Live streaming Live stream with restart & catch-up
  • Ad replacement for live Live stream with ads
  • Ad insertion for VOD VOD stream with ads
  • Content stitching for VOD Create personalized streams
  • Live2VOD Produce VOD from Live streams
  • Manifest customization Compile device-specific manifests
  • Audio streaming Stream audio everywhere

Solutions to address all your streaming needs.

  • Get in touch
  • Unified Origin Stream any format
  • Unified Remix Make it personal
  • Unified Packager Package any format
  • Unified Capture Create frame-accurate clips
  • Unified Virtual Channel Create new channels and run experiments faster

These software products serve all your streaming needs.

  • Get started
  • Videos View our explainers and masterclasses
  • Blog Catch up on our latest technology
  • Cases Learn how other clients benefited from our solutions
  • Demos Experience how our solutions work
  • Academy Sharpen your Unified Streaming skills
  • Research Research at Unified Streaming

These resources provide all the knowledge you need to work with our software and solutions.

  • Get in touch
  • Documentation Familiarize yourself with our product documentation
  • Tutorials Guide yourself to getting up and running
  • FAQs Find answers to common questions
  • License manager See all your license keys
  • Contact Get in touch

Engage with us. We are ready to provide all the support you need.

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Boy van Dijk

Boy van Dijk

Streaming Solutions Engineer

Boy leads the Operations team. He likes complicated problems, elegant solutions, and—above all—decipherable documentation.

customer support question of the month — 3 min read
Better come ARMed

This month’s question, which we’ve been getting a lot, is: How do I run a containerized setup of your software on my new Apple Silicon-based Mac? Well, firs…

7 min read
Cutting costs while streaming FAST: ad-supported live channels without a live encoder

I’d like to discuss free ad-supported TV, or FAST: how it can keep your streaming service more relevant, and how to run FAST without breaking the bank. Which I…

6 min read
CMAF conformance: Is this really CMAF?

This past summer marked the third anniversary of the announcement of CMAF, the Common Media Application Format developed to increase the interoperability of st…

8 min read
Monetize any VOD library with third-party ad insertion using Remix AVOD

Server-side Dynamic Ad Insertion for VOD is hard and expensive, right? You’ll have to re-encode your entire content library, find a way to add the SCTE 35 mark…

21 min read
In the cloud #1: How to deploy a redundant VOD setup on AWS with Unified Origin

Deploying a setup in the cloud can vastly enhance your flexibility. Without the need to actually own any servers you can quickly spin up instances, so that you…

10 min read
How to do SCTE 35-based Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live streaming with Unified Origin

With the latest release of the Unified Streaming Platform, it becomes possible to do Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live. This new solution is based on industry prac…

8 min read
Content protection in the age of 4K and HDR: using hardware DRM with multiple keys

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a crucial component of many video streaming setups. If you run a commercial video streaming service, the technology to restr…

7 min read
Why we chose CPIX to take advanced content protection to the next level

Content protection is one of the most important topics in video streaming and as it becomes more advanced and harder to circumvent, it also becomes more compli…

4 min read
Advanced Live streaming and the need to further standardize ​‘Live ingest’

Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Live streaming is a demanding way of delivering video. In addition to the need for real-time encoding of the source video into tracks t…

9 min read
Broaden your audience: accessibility features in video streaming

As the video streaming market has matured over the past years, quality of experience has improved a lot: consumers can choose from a wider variety of content o…

10 min read
How to make your media streams smarter using timed metadata

Signaling information about media content, what’s so fancy about that? Metadata may seem like the most boring part of a video streaming setup, but it is vital …

7 min read
Looking back: hot topics at IBC 2017

As the 2017 edition of one of the biggest trade shows in the broadcasting business has just finished, this blog post provides an overview of interesting topics…

15 min read
Welcome to the jungle: caption and subtitle formats in video streaming

As the latest release of the Unified Streaming Platform adds full WebVTT support for offline and dynamic packaging, all major delivery formats for text tracks …

9 min read
The many advantages of dynamic packaging over static content

No large scale video streaming setup can be successful without supporting multiple playout formats. Such is the law dictated by the wide variety of end user de…

3 min read
Encrypted streams? Serve them via HTTPS or Chrome 58 won’t play them

From April 25th onwards, when Chrome 58 is scheduled for release, DRM encrypted video streams served from a non-secure origin will no longer work in Google’s b…

11 min read
Stop numbering: The underappreciated power of DASH’s SegmentTimeline

Old habits die hard. This is true even for a fast moving, technology driven industry like video streaming. Ever since the introduction of Apple’s HLS specifica…

10 min read
How containers make Unified Remix easy to customize and quick to deploy

While streaming media is rapidly becoming the dominant way in which video is consumed, current technology only offers limited flexibility when it comes to maki…

13 min read
Scaling video streaming: Live versus VOD

More and more video is streamed over the internet every day. To be able to target a big audience, while still keeping control over the way in which you deliver…

8 min read
The promises of CMAF and its compatibility with the Unified Streaming Platform

In June of 2016, the committee draft of the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) specification was released, bringing the promise of a single format for use …

9 min read
5G Superfluidity and the future of streaming video

The next generation mobile network, sometimes referred to as 5G, targets extremely ambitious key performance indicators (KPIs) such as sub-millisecond latency,…

11 min read
A superfluid 5G mobile network architecture

Video streaming on the Internet is an increasingly popular application that poses challenging bandwidth requirements, especially in mobile networks and when th…

6 min read
New in HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): Common Media Application Format

Video streaming over the Internet is becoming an increasingly popular and important service to provide. It is a convenient way for content owners and distribut…

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