Newbury, Berkshire, 4 December 2017 – Cabletime, developer of the MediaStar range of IPTV, video streaming and digital signage solutions, has announced that its MediaStar IP Re-Caster Gateway solution, which enables IPTV distribution across a WAN or non-multicast supported network, has been declared as ‘SRT Ready’.
Now with 70 members, the SRT Alliance continues in its mission to make open source SRT the de facto standard for low latency video streaming.
Introduced to the market by Wowza and Haivision, SRT has dozens of companies supporting it through their membership in the SRT Alliance. We’ll consider, at a fairly moderate technical level, how it works.
Streaming Media’s Tim Siglin interviews VideoRx’s Robert Reinhardt at Streaming Media West 2017.
The market is thirsty for an open source, freely available, low-latency, UDP-like approach for streaming over the internet. This session brings together SRT Alliance members and industry experts to discuss the SRT open source video transport protocol and how it optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable networks with secure streams and easy firewall traversal, bringing the best quality live video over the worst networks. The session also discusses how UDP coupled with SRT is an ideal transport for video contribution [...]
Failing to deliver live-streaming premium events to large-scale audiences can be a knock-out blow for operators, writes Adrian Pennington. It is inherently difficult and notoriously unpredictable.
Introducing Open Source SRT by Mahmoud J. Al-Daccak, EVP Product Development & CTO at Haivision. It’s not often you can depart from the day-to-day grind and do something truly extraordinary.
LiveScale now supports HEVC over SRT as an alternative to H.264 over RTMP to dramatically increase bandwidth utilization and picture quality when streaming to websites, mobile applications, broadcasters and social media.
Author: Sean Buckley, Senior Editor at Fierce Cable Source: Fierce Cable The SRT Alliance, an open-source initiative focused on developing methods for low-latency video streaming, has released version 1.3 of the SRT video transport protocol. This version supports encrypted fast file transfer of VOD files and the multiplexing of streams within the same network port. Founded by streaming video providers Haivision and Wowza, the SRT Alliance is focused on developing an open source alternative to proprietary technologies. Read complete article
Matrox Graphics has joined the SRT Alliance, a group promoting an open source video transport protocol that was founded by Haivision and Wowza.
