Live Streaming
Instantly provision your live stream, and be streaming in minutes.
Overview
Live Streaming allows you to broadcast audio and video content to the internet. With NetDNA’s live streaming service, you can broadcast from anywhere, to viewers anywhere all backed by our knowledgeable staff and always up network reliability. NetDNA will broadcast your event live to viewers where they are! We’ve broadcast any number of corporate, sports, and organizational events – from small faith-based revivals to streaming large sporting extravaganzas across our worldwide network – all without a major or minor hitch.
Mobile Device Streaming
Live video or VOD mobile streaming is a seamless user experience when it’s moving fast and furious through our network.
Supported Platforms
How it Works
There are two ways to broadcast a real-time stream to the NetDNA global Content Delivery Network (CDN). You can use encoding software installed on the PC, or you can use a hardware encoder. The live feed broadcast is connected to the PC, Mac or hardware encoder. The encoding software or hardware will then “convert” (encode) your real-time live signal to be sent out to the NetDNA streaming platform through a secure RTMP connection. From there, NetDNA will rebroadcast this signal to as many audience members as you want through its worldwide repeater edge nodes. By using a CDN for your live streaming, you guarantee a better experience for your viewers.
Additional NetDNA Features:
Control Panel
Manage your site’s use of our CDN through our intuitive and easy to use control panel interface, or through highly flexible XML-RPC API.
XML-RPC API
Manage all aspects of your site or service with an open API which can fully integrate with any third-party or custom application.
Secure Token
Secure Token is the most secure way to serve and protect your streaming media from unauthorized downloading. Utilizing RTMPTE (Real Time Messaging Protocol Tunneling Encrypted) technology and a secure token key, you can rest easily knowing your video content is secure.
Real-Time Reporting
NetDNA’s robust reporting feature includes critical management data in real time, giving you an instant snapshot of web traffic, content and application delivery, efficiency and performance. Your raw data is translated into meaningful formats, yielding intelligence that is both current and actionable.
RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
Developed by Adobe, RTMP is used to stream audio and video though port 1935. This protocol is used with flash players like Flowplayer and JW Player. RTMP does not use video buffering like Pseudo streaming does. Keyframes can be added to these videos to allow an end user to skip to a point in the future or go backwards at anytime during playback.
Flowplayer – Dynamic Bitrate Streaming
A unique feature of Flowplayer’s newest flash player release that allows a video producer to encode multiple versions of a video in different bitrates and have the flash player choose which one to show based on end user’s available bandwidth. This function uses Wowza Media’s bwcheck module to determine the correct size and bitrate for streaming. Since RTMP doesn’t buffer video using dynamic bitrate, streaming would enable an end user with a slow connection to still view a video without interruption.
RTMPT (Real Time Messaging Protocol Tunneling)
A variation of RTMP, this media streaming protocol uses port 80 to tunnel a normal media stream through an HTTP request. Typically used as a fallback protocol in case of firewall blocking of port 1935, this allows an end user to use port 80 – usually unblocked by ISPs and local system administrators – to play the media stream.
Multi-Protocol, Multi-Client Streaming
Flash (RTMP), iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming), Silverlight (Smooth Streaming), QucikTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP), IPTV (MPEG-TS).
Supported File Formats (audio and video)
FLV (Flash Video – .flv)
MP4 (QuickTime container – .mp4, .f4v, .mov, .m4v, .mp4a, .3gp, and .3g2)
MP3 (.mp3)
Inbound Live Encoder Support
RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC), RTSP/RTP/MPEG-TS (H.264/AAC; unicast, multicast, TCP, UDP), ICY (MP3/AAC; SHOUTcast/icecast).