StreamS Live HLS/DASH Encoder
Deliver Robust Feature-Rich High Quality Audio Streams – Stereo/Surround
Standards-based HLS/DASH segmented streaming are now the preferred protocols to deliver Internet streams to your audience. Video content providers have already learned this the hard way! It overcomes all the limitations of legacy ICY/FLV (SHOUTcast/Icecast) which suffer from high cost, excessive buffering, asynchronous metadata, and inability to scale to large audiences.
There has been little development in standards-based streaming audio protocols, until fairly recently. Compliant HLS/DASH works the way the Internet works, leveraging standard web servers and cloud storage to deliver live and file streams. This has the advantage of lower cost, increased robustness and reliability. It is able to take advantage of common network infrastructures without expensive specialized, unreliable streaming servers and scarce server expertise, allowing it to scale to large audiences easily.
HLS/DASH brings better than broadcast quality audio to streaming. And when compared to terrestrial broadcasting, offers a hugely increased coverage area without annoying radio interference, hum, buzz, and multipath distortions, all at a fraction of the costs. Terrestrial broadcasting has a very high coverage area cost compared to streaming. This is pure business sense.
There is no better time than now to deploy HLS/DASH. Your audience is at home distanced and growing, and ICY/FLV cannot keep up.
Give your audience the performance they expect.
StreamS Live Legacy Encoder - Key Features
Now Supports
The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) for segmented media is an extensible standard for the encoding and packaging of segmented media objects for delivery and decoding on end user devices in adaptive multimedia presentations.
- IETF-HLS Fragmented MPEG-4 (fMP4) with Synchronous In-Band Metadata
- MPEG-DASH Fragmented MPEG-4 (fMP4) with Synchronous In-Band Metadata
Create X-rated StreamS
eXtended HE-AAC
Xcellent Efficiency
Xtraordinary Quality
Xceptional Reliability
Xcelerate Audience Share
Xclude High Streaming Costs
We are the first to offer professional xHE-AAC encoders.
Internet streaming audio is now a viable means of delivering quality content to a mass audience. This IS the new era of radio. Internet streaming is no longer a hobby or a toy. Hundreds of millions of desktop computers, smartphones, automotive dashboards, and other player devices allow easy access and can reach your audience with quality that can exceed traditional terrestrial and satellite radio. This is provided the right streaming encoders are used.
Using StreamS HLSdirect™ or DASHdirect™, dedicated specialized streaming servers are no longer required. Instead, standard web servers or cloud storage can be used to deliver live and file streaming content with lower cost, higher reliability, and easier deployment and maintainability.
High-fidelity wideband floating-point audio encoder engines provide the highest coded audio quality, which outperform fixed-point implementations.
Not all streaming audio encoders are created equal. They all have different audio encoding implementations and various feature sets. Some CDNs provide encoders. Most are inferior, as their main objective is to just make “noise” and sell bandwidth. Many broadcasters, netcasters, IT professionals, and even software developers are not aware of all the necessary details to produce quality audio on computer platforms, even though it may be their primary business. Now is not the time for poorly implemented amateur encoders. Broadcast quality standards should be applied to streaming audio to achieve professional results. StreamS Encoders take all the guess work out of this for you. All of the details are taken care of.
Synchronous frame-accurate metadata, which does not reply on server performance, provides on-time delivery of content information, such as artist and title, and other user definable metadata. It also allows accurate cue points and triggers for content insertion such as advertising, achieving professional results and eliminating embarrassing off-times and resulting miss-cues resulting in a very unprofessional audience presentation, commonly heard on other systems.
Using new streaming formats such as HLS and AAC, it now possible to reach all modern browsers and platforms without requiring Flash, RTMP, or expensive, deprecated MP3 streams. HE-AAC (aka aacPlus) allows your audience to listen longer at less expense to both the content provider and the listener. MP3 is only useful to reach the very small number of old remaining streaming devices that don’t support AAC. It is no longer economically feasible to support MP3 streaming to these few devices, as it is an added expense to reach a very low percentage of the total audience. However, for those who insist on MP3 for whatever reason, StreamS offers MP3 encoder options.
ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) / FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
- Precision Premium Audio for TrueHD Audio Streaming
- Reach All Browsers, and Many Devices.
- Better than FM Radio – No pre-emphasis or de-emphasis.
- Better than HD Radio™ – No lossy audio codec.
- Better than Satellite Radio – No audio bandwidth limitations.