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Bitmovin Live Streaming

Massively Scalable Architecture, Instant Playback, Clipping & Live DVR with Maximum Device Reach

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Solving the hardest problems in live streaming

Ever been in the situation where you had to sacrifice quality because of architecture restrictions when configuring your live stream? Bitmovin encoding allows a single live stream to be scaled across multiple instances to deliver highest quality.

Delivering Video all over the World

Live streaming API built for developers

Have complete control over your live streams with comprehensive and easy-to-use API hooks to handle event-based and 24/7 live streaming. Bitmovin powerful API integrates seamlessly into an end-to-end video delivery workflow and runs on any cloud or commodity hardware. That's right! Our cloud-native software runs fully virtualized on any infrastructure unsing Kubernetes and Docker.

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Features of the Bitmovin Live Streaming API

Latest Codec Support

Comprehensive support for HEVC, VP9, AV1 for High definition video everywhere

Server-Side Ad Insertion

Increase your ad revenue by pushing your ads past Ad Blocking software

Live Streaming

Live-to-VoD for instant playback and highlights plus HEVC, VP9, AV1, DRM, 60FPS, 4K

Multi-Codec Streaming

Save bandwidth by dynamically selecting the optimal codec

Advanced Encoding Settings

Fine tune the encoding settings to get exactly the configuration you need

DRM Support & Integration

MPEG CENC with Widevine, PrimeTime, PlayReady. FairPlay for HLS. Integrations with multiple DRM providers.
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Reliable high-quality live streams 24/7

Whether you are building a 24/7 live streaming service or need extra capacity for live events, Bitmovin Live Streaming API gives you the power and flexibility to build your ideal live-streaming setup. Our fully customizable API enables full access to live streams with no restrictions on resolutions, bitrates or codec settings.

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Video player

Stream high quality adaptive video anywhere

Video Encoding

Massively distributed video encoding that runs anywhere

Video Analytics

Present your data exactly the way your team needs it
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Technical Specifications

  • Input & Output

  • AWS S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Blob
  • FTP
  • SFTP
  • HTTP
  • HTTPs
  • Aspera
  • Scality
  • Cloudian HyperStore
  • IBM Bluemix Storage
  • IBM CleverSafe
  • Rackspace Cloud Files
  • Openstack Swift
  • Apache CloudStack
  • Ceph
  • Riak
  • DELL EMC
  • HGST
  • HP Helion Eucalyptus
  • Oracle Nimbula

  • DRM

  • Google Widevine
  • Microsoft PlayReady
  • Apple Fairplay
  • Adobe PrimeTime
  • Marlin

  • Streaming Formats

  • MPEG-DASH
  • Apple HLS
  • Smooth Streaming

  • Container Formats

  • MP4
  • MPEG2-TS
  • WebM

  • Codecs

  • H264/AVC
  • H265/HEVC
  • VP9
  • AAC-LC
  • HE-AAC
  • AC3
  • E-AC3
  • MP3
  • Vorbis

  • Closed Captions & Subtitles

  • WebVTT
  • CEA-608/708
  • SRT
  • TTML
  • DFXP
  • EBU-TT
  • SMPTE-TT

  • Other Features

  • Thumbnails
  • Sprites
  • Watermarks
  • Logo Insertion
  • Cropping
  • Rotate
  • Deinterlace
  • Sidecar File Passthrough
  • Audio Channel Mixing
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