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.
Trusted by
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) | |
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.
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Purchase options
We offer a number of flexible ways to try our products, directly from Bitmovin or from
one of the following marketplaces:
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
Configure SCTE-35
API Reference
Code Samples
Developer Community
inal 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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