Digital Video Recording (DVR)

With Flussonic Media Server, you can use rich archive-related functionality:

• Real time recording and viewing IP cameras without limitations on the archive size
• Recording and postponed viewing of TV channels without limitations on the archive size
• Maintaining the archive depth (for example, 1 week)
• Broadcasting HLS, HDS, MPEG-TS, RTSP, RTMP, DASH
• Broadcasting in the timeshift mode (for example, video can be shifted for an hour back)
• Export of video to MP4 files
• Recording video to an enterprise storage or to a cloud storage such as Amazon S3
• Work with the Flussonic's application-level disk array that provides high reliability and accessibility of the archive.

Advantages of DVR in Flussonic

Video archiving in Flussonic Media Server has a number of features that distinguish it from competitors:

• No limitation on archive size: you can store months or even years of video
• Access to an archive as if it was an endless video tape
• Thumbnails are part of an archive (this allows a fast preview of individual thumbnails without rewinding)
• Built-in restreaming and replication of archives (for a group of Flussonic Media Servers)
• Good speed of reading and recording, reduced disk I/O when recording.
• SSD caching.

Using DVR archives in Flussonic Media Server

• DVR configuration
• DVR playback. Playing the archive using the web interface or special URLs
• Reading DVR via different video protocols
• Timeshift in a different time zone.
• Recording of programs (Catchup TV)
• Exporting archive records to MP4 files
• Exporting keyframes to MP4 files for time-lapse video creation.
• DVR API
• DVR and authorization. Authorization of access to the archive
• Making thumbnails of video tracks and saving them in the archive
• Cluster DVR. Storing archives in a distributed video delivery environment
• Automatic replication of archives between servers.
• Writing an archive to a cloud storage (S3 or Swift).
• Writing an archive to an application-level RAID.