The SRT Alliance is proud to welcome TVUP Media to the growing SRT family, as the open source protocol becomes the solution to delivering the best in pay-TV OTT services.
Castr Live Streaming Inc. announced that it has joined the SRT Alliance, the open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming. As part of Castr’s overall strategy to promote efficient, affordable and easy video streaming solutions, Castr joined the SRT Alliance to integrate the SRT protocol into its platform, enabling the best viewing experience, secured content from contribution to distribution, and pristine video quality over unreliable networks. “Castr Live Streaming Inc. is honored and humbled to join this [...]
Telestream®, a global leader in file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming, and delivery technologies, announced the latest version of Wirecast, its award-winning live production and streaming platform for Mac and Windows. The new version is filled with features that users have asked for as Wirecast continues to be relied on for remote production and live streaming as well as a capture source for further postproduction and editing. Wirecast also now supports SRT, an open-source video transport protocol that enables the delivery of high-quality and secure, low-latency [...]
Happy New Year! As we begin 2021, sending our best wishes to all of our readers, we are excited to share that SRT Tuesdays will be recommencing as of Tuesday, January 12, with SRT Alliance member PlayBox Technology. Register Now The SRT Tuesday webinar series was very popular throughout 2020, as video streaming experts from industry leaders explored how the open source SRT streaming protocol played a key role in their innovative solutions for streaming high-quality, low-latency video across even the [...]
Last week was a busy time for the SRT community. Dozens of engineers around the world took part in the second SRT InterOp Plugfest of 2020, an online event aimed at providing opportunities to test interoperability and compatibility between different technologies using the SRT protocol. Since the last SRT Plugfest in May 2020, many new companies have joined the SRT Alliance, which now counts more than 450 members. The event began with a webinar, hosted by Haivision’s SRT Solutions Architect [...]
SRT Alliance members to prove SRT interoperability for low latency streaming supported across all major cloud platforms during their virtual SRT InterOp Plugfest happening from December 8-10. The SRT infrastructure, provided by Haivision, will include Makito X4 low latency H.264/HEVC video encoders, Haivision SRT Gateways hosted on Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud, as well as Haivision’s newest global stream routing cloud service, Haivision Hub. Stream monitoring infrastructure will be provided by the leading provider of digital video tools, Telestream, with the new Telestream Cloud | Stream Monitoring Service establishing probes dynamically in any datacenter to [...]
In case you missed it, SRT Tuesday webinars are back! The concept behind this webinar series is to explore the latest innovations using the SRT protocol and demonstrate the power of the open source community. Sign up to watch the webinars and learn how you can leverage SRT for today’s challenges of streaming low latency, high quality video over unpredictable internet connections. Last week kicked off with Suso Carrillo, Director of the SRT Alliance, sharing the mission behind the series along [...]
From conferences, corporate events, award shows to concerts, COVID-19 has turned the events industry upside down. With live events being canceled overnight, event organizers are being forced to rethink their business models. This was certainly the case for Pixel Nation, a South African live events specialist whose business disappeared from under its feet in a matter of days when lockdown started. Pixel Nation Directors, Mike Fynn and Bradley Hilton explain that the team had to act quickly to meet the [...]
SRT Alliance member, Cinegy, recently wrote a blog post that explains why SRT is a critical component in remote working for broadcasters. Lewis Kirkaldie shares how SRT is changing the way that companies are working, thanks to its two key strengths: security and reliability. Secure – you can use SRT for AES 256-bit audio and video stream encryption, which is critical in times like these with widely dispersed workforces and distribution channels. Circuits that were once under physical lock and [...]
GlobalM is a startup that stands to shake up the way remote content is contributed to news organizations. Its technology is designed to connect media organizations with freelance journalists and citizen reporters, enabling live, up-to-date, news contribution on location, in high quality, on demand. Part of what makes GlobalM so interesting is that this news and sports contribution is not only live and high quality, but that it can be shot on mobile. Cameras on mobile phones have improved dramatically [...]
