Live Encoding

Delivering resilient and consistent, high-quality live streaming experiences

Stream resilient live experiences with Bitmovin’s Live Encoder, enabling you to ingest your RTMP/s, SRT, or Zixi inputs, generate packaged HLS and DASH outputs and ensure scalable, high-quality delivery to the widest range of devices and platforms.

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Event-based and
24/7 live streaming

Empower your team and users to stream live events, user-generated content, or 24/7 channels effortlessly, anytime, anywhere with our robust Live Encoder and flexible live pools.

Monetize
live content

Monetize your live content effectively with our SCTE-35 support and integrated partner solutions, transforming broadcasts into profitable revenue streams.

Live streaming
at scale

Scale your live streams seamlessly, starting, stopping, and adding new broadcasts as needed across any major cloud with pay-as-you-go or contract-based pricing

How Bitmovin’s Live Encoder delivers

	Bitmovin Live Encoder
Out-of-the-box live monetization with SCTE-35 support
Instant generation of Live-to-VOD content
Adaptive Bitrate streaming to play content in different environments
Multi-codec support – H.264, H.265 (HEVC), VP9
Out-of-the-box Multi-DRM integrations
Deployed on every major cloud hyper-scaler (infrastructure)

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Live Encoding and packaging for Digital Platforms

Ingest your live event content into our encoder using either single or dual (main and backup) RTMP, SRT, or Zixi feeds. Bitmovin then encodes and packages the content on the fly, preparing HLS and DASH outputs for global delivery over the internet. Our powerful solution equips live streaming platforms and service providers with the essential tools to deliver superior, world-class experiences.

With our deep industry expertise, we’ve designed the Bitmovin Live Encoder to excel in delivering resilient and reliable streams on your platform, ensuring superior video and audio quality. We offer comprehensive APIs for experienced professionals, with an intuitive setup wizard, and a plethora of code examples and templates to get you started. Elevate your live streaming experience with our Live Encoder today.

Flexible deployments, with scalable pricing

The Bitmovin Live Encoder is deployed in every major cloud, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Akamai, and can operate within customer-owned accounts to reduce the total cost of ownership and help you burn down commits without adding additional cost. Alternatively, for those seeking to alleviate the burden of managing cloud infrastructure, our Managed SaaS solution offers a stress-free option to easily get up and live streaming

Scaling up and down in global cloud environments, allowing customers to have access to a high quality live encoder for events, no matter the location and scale. Supporting 50 concurrent events one day, and 5 the next – no problem. With flexible payment packages to suit your business needs, you only pay for what you use.

Content security is vital for any business where video is distributed over the open internet and carries a high monetary value. Protect your live streams with Hollywood grade DRM integrations.

Get started easily with our Live Encoding wizard and get access to 360 free live encoding minutes monthly

Monetizing Live Streams

Bitmovin Live Encoder allows customers to monetize their content with advertisements, supporting both Server Side and Client Side Ad Insertion. For content that has ad-breaks set during production, customers can enable SCTE-35 pass-through mode. Customers can also insert new ad break cue points in real-time, using Live controls in the UI or via our API, in addition to existing any SCTE-35 markers.

Google DoubleClick

Yospace

Broadpeak

AWS MediaTailor

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Purchase options

We offer a number of flexible ways to try our products, directly from Bitmovin or from
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Bitmovin Live Encoder capabilities

	Live Encoding HDDesigned to meet the needs of the majority production workflows.	Custom Live ConfigurationsFor edge use cases or driving new innovation and technologies forward.
Pricing	Simple and predictable pricing	Complex and customised pricing
Billing	Fixed effective hourly rate billed per minute	Billed using the Billable Minutes methodology
Cloud Providers	Akamai Connected Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud	Akamai Connected Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Deployment options	Managed Cloud, Cloud Connect and Hybrid	Managed Cloud, Cloud Connect and Hybrid
DRM support
Closed Caption Support
Live-to-VOD
Insertable MP4 Content
Input Protocols	RTMP (main & backup) SRT (main & backup)	RTMP (main & backup) SRT (main & backup) and Zixi
Input Resolutions	Full HD (1920 x 1200)	Any resolution
Output Video Codecs	H.264	H.264, H.265 and VP9
Maximum Output Frame rate	30 frames per second	120 frames per second
Maximum Output Resolution	Full HD (1920 x 1200)	4K (3840 x 2160)
Maximum Video Renditions	6	No limit
Output Audio Codecs	AAC	AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, Opus, Vorbis
Maximum Audio Renditions	2	No limit
Manifest Support	HLS, DASH	HLS, DASH, DASH-IF
Maximum Output Manifests	2	No limit

Simplify your live encoding workflow

Developer resources, APIs and documentation and more to deploy easily and to get started quickly.

Getting started guides

Step-by-step Live Encoder Wizard

final var startEncodingRequest = new StartEncodingRequest();

final var dashManifestResource = new ManifestResource();
dashManifestResource.setManifestId(dashManifest.getId());
startEncodingRequest.setVodDashManifests(List.of(dashManifestResource));

final var hlsManifestResource = new ManifestResource();
hlsManifestResource.setManifestId(hlsManifest.getId());
startEncodingRequest.setVodHlsManifests(List.of(hlsManifestResource));

startEncodingRequest.setManifestGenerator(ManifestGenerator.V2);
bitmovinApi.encoding.encodings.start(encoding.getId(), startEncodingRequest);

Partnerships

The right partners
for every workflow

The Bitmovin VOD Encoder is integrated with trusted industry partners, providing seamless integration for Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Forensic Watermarking to Server-Side Ad Insertion and CDNs.

With this collaborative approach, Bitmovin empowers development teams to get to market faster, helping keep their content secure, maximizing ROI and streaming worldwide.

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fuboTV

fuboTV brings live sports to global fans with Bitmovin’s video infrastructure.

“Bitmovin’s engineering team has been great to work with. We were able to rely on them to become an extension of our engineering team. Bitmovin’ gives us greater control over the player than any other player in the market. We were able to get our implementation to production with markedly better experience than our previous player. We’re looking forward to exploring more ways to work together.”

Sung Ho Choi Co-founder fuboTV

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Case study

Easel TV

Leveraging Bitmovin, Easel TV reduced latency by 94% and sped up content delivery by 93%

“At Easel TV, we enable our clients to easily and quickly implement and launch end-to-end streaming services. With Bitmovin’s VOD and Live Encoder, we are able to make content available in the highest quality, available 93% faster and reduce latency by 94%, which is vital for live sport streams. With Bitmovin’s extensive feature set and a clear roadmap, we can offer our clients the latest functionality while setting them up for the future. Bitmovin has become an essential and seamless part of our video workflow.”

Bill Scott COO & Co-founder of Easel TV

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Znipe.TV

Scalable and flexible encoding solution

“Bitmovin’s flexible and customizable technology has enabled us to solve one of our unique broadcasting challenges: to seamlessly generate a vast amount of parallel live video feeds and present them to the user in the highest quality, wherever they are in the world. Znipe.TV’s unique technology of broadcasting time-synchronized video stream of multiple angles sets new demand on a transcoder service, which Bitmovin delivers with their fantastic technical roadmap. To achieve the unique Znipe.TV viewing experience, we chose Bitmovin’s encoding to handle the video transcoding so that we can focus on what we do best, providing world-class entertainment for fans globally, live and on demand.”

Erik Åkerfeldt CEO and co-founder, Znipe.TV

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OKAST

The need for speed and scale

“Our creators view live streaming capabilities as essential because it unlocks a new level of interactivity and engagement that’s just not possible with other content types. We chose Bitmovin’s Live Encoding because the Bitmovin brand is synonymous with innovation in video streaming, which now includes live. Bitmovin Live Encoding is the most resilient solution on the market, empowering our creators to build more meaningful relationships with viewers and maximise the reach of their content among new audiences.”

Cedric Monnier CEO of OKAST

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