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Flussonic Media Server

Flussonic Media Server is a core technology for building solutions in video ingest, processing, storage, and delivery.

We offer the following products and technologies to meet your needs:

  • Catena - complete IPTV (OTT) solution including Middleware, client applications, and streaming
  • Catena SE - clustered video streaming engine for building IPTV OTT services when you have your own Middleware
  • MCaster - professional broadcasting solution for preparing and distributing TV signal for satellite, terrestrial broadcast, and headend stations
  • Lumika - carrier-grade video surveillance system with cloud VMS, billing, and local recording servers
  • Agora - enterprise TV system for closed networks and private broadcasts
  • Watcher - universal VMS suitable for both service providers and in-house video surveillance, scaling from 50 to 500,000 cameras
  • VSaaS.IO - cloud video surveillance service for simple use cases and custom IoT ecosystems
  • Retroview - online quality analyzer for broadcast channels to improve service quality

You can always contact us for help with designing and implementing Media Server for custom projects such as UGC services.

Flussonic capabilities

Below is a description of Flussonic technologies integrated into the products listed above.

  • Live streaming. Captures live from satellite, IP camera, capture card or video encoding program. Supports VMix, OBS, Atemi, HDMI-to-RTMP converters, video editing consoles and browsers. Supports SDI, ASI, SRT, RTMP, WebRTC, WebRTC with ABR and WebRTC playback (WHEP) with retransmitting settings. Plays multibitrate live and streams from the archive via HLS, DASH, or MSS over the Internet. Plays multibitrate live streams via WebRTC with low latency.

  • Captures from DVB capture cards. Captures channels from DVB-T/C/S cards. Captures WebRTC (WHIP), H.323, UDP MPEG-TS, TCP MPEG-TS, and HTTP MPEG-TS, M4S/M4F.

  • Transmission to DVB networks. Prepares MPTS for transmission to satellite according to the TR-101290 standards. Receives publishing MPTS via DVB-C card for transmission to DVB-C networks.

  • Reception of DVB subtitles. Conversion of DVB subtitles from pictures to text.

  • Video on Demand (VOD). File distribution with adaptive bitrate and language selection.

  • Own channel from VOD files

  • DVR archive. Records video streams to disk and manages the archive, supports the required archive depth and hard disk capacity. Plays multibitrate DVR via HLS, DASH, and MSS. DVR API.

  • Delayed playback. Plays multibitrate live streams with delay via HLS, DASH or MSS.

  • DRM. Supports Widevine, PlayReady, Solocoo, Conax, EzDRM, BuyDRM KeyOS, and other DRM systems. See Flussonic API Reference for a complete list.

  • Cloud storage. Fetches files from HTTP servers and cloud storages like Amazon S3 and OpenStack Storage (Swift), and stores the archive in cloud storages.

  • Transcoder. Supports H.264, H.265, AV1, MPEG-2 video, deinterlacing, multibitrate, AAC, MP3, Opus, MPEG-2 audio, AC3, PCMA, PCMU audio codecs.

  • CDN integration

  • Plays MPTS multicast and unicast

  • Delivers SPTS to multicast group for local networks

  • Web player for HLS, DASH, MSS and WebRTC

  • Ad Insertion. Server-side ad insertion.

  • Source capture failover using multiple servers.

  • API for integration. Integration with Middleware and service website.

  • Channel viewing statistics

Start working with Flussonic Media Server

To start working with Flussonic Media Server, do the following:

  1. Request a trial by filling out the trial form on our website
  2. Follow the steps in the Quick start with Media Server.

What's new

Find the changes added in the latest Flussonic versions in our blog.