Key features

All industry standard playout formats

HLS (TS & CMAF), (DVB-)DASH, HbbTV, HDS and Smooth

Cutting edge codecs

High quality audio and video, HEVC, Dolby Atmos, AC4, DTS:X

Every major DRM system

FairPlay, Marlin, PlayReady, Widevine

Main benefits

Extensive compatibility
Stream your content to all major platforms and devices
Deploy anywhere
Bare metal on premises, containerized, or in the cloud
High availability
Being stateless, failover is seamless and your service won’t be disrupted in case of emergency
Future proof
Flexibility to quickly and easily make changes and integrate Dynamic Ad Replacement
Deliver the highest quality stream
Stream 4K HDR with advanced audio, subtitle and video formats, and add accessibility options
Flexible viewing
Enable your customers to restart and catch-up missed programs with the press of a button

How it works

A Live encoder posts a live stream to Origin, which ingests it, creating a live archive on disk to stream from. Based on incoming requests from viewers, Origin dynamically packages the live stream into the requested format.

To scale this setup for delivery to millions of viewers, a CDN sits in front of Origin, caching Origin’s output and handling almost all of the requests.

Viewers can also start a show from the beginning or watch programming from the last couple of days. Origin can generate these recordings from its live archive, the length of which you can configure to suit the needs of your streaming service.

Your live stream

Streams recurring events, one-offs or a 24/7 linear live channel

Live encoder

Relies on a live encoder to produce a multi-bitrate stream packaged as fMP4 to ready it for ABR streaming and supports adding a second encoder for failover

Unified Origin

Creates a live archive by enabling the archive functionality in Unified Origin

Unified Origin
  • Restart
  • Catch-up

Restart TV

For an advised maximum of 7 days content is served directly from the live archive created by Unified Origin

Catch-up TV

Creates clips using Unified Capture based on EPG/​timing parameters to store them in main archive and play out with Unified Origin

Unified Capture

Content Delivery Network

Supports the integration of one or more CDNs into your setup to deliver content with the highest performance and availability wherever your audience is located

Stream all formats to any device

Delivers your stream in the right format to all of your audiences’ devices, whether mobile, tablet, desktop or TV

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See how our products work through a one-on-one demo and video chat with one of our experts.

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A deeper dive
into live streaming?

Find the answers to your technical questions in our extended documentation.

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