To name but one, Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder is available on different platforms. It allows you to broadcast your images free and quickly, thanks to key encoding parameters: codec, ëimage size, throughput, etc.

The source may be high quality video content for your live events or videos from a webcam or a peripheral FireWire or USB.

Streaming generally is a method for intelligent broadcasting of data on the Internet. It differs from conventional downloading as it isnít necessary to wait for the end of the process in order to be able to start playing back the data.

It is important to grasp this difference as it is the whole point of broadcasting in real time since it allows not inconsiderable bandwidth to be saved resulting in less costs for the traffic generated.

Your internet connection

The video flux that will be sent to us via your Internet connection will depend on your bandwidth availability for sending data (upload); if for example you have 650 kb/s for upload, you will be limited to a video stream of 600Kb/s maximum. If you send an attachment of 10MB by email using the same Internet connection, this may saturate your upload line and cut your stream for several seconds.

Connection quality on client side

It is far less complicated, as bandwidth use is done in reverse this time; the customer receives your video stream as a download. ADSL connections are generally very fast for downloads (several megabytes/sec). However there are still some urban areas that have a slower throughput. If you donít want to punish this audience, you ought to create a second live video stream of lower quality.

Compatibility for all support

Among the current compatible methods of listening, we can mention the iPod, iPhone, iPad, smartphones under Android and Windows Mobile, iTunes, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Internet browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari etc...

Registering a direct

It is possible to record a live broadcast on the fly or to program the recording from our admin console or from our API. This solution allows you for example to offer the video for a broadcast as soon as live transmission ends automatically from your site or at the end of your daily TV news, in order to make them available to your viewers automatically.

Geolocalisation and scheduling of breaks in streaming

You can schedule time slots via our admin console or from our API using broadcast rules limited to certain countries or slots for break in streaming.

Customizable video player

Customize the entire video player so that it is adapted to fit your web design perfectly and change the status messages that are visible in preloading or during an interruption, overlay a logo (watermarking), etc.
Access restriction by geoip
You will also find numerous options for restricting access to the contents that you broadcast (geo localisation) and for informing spectators who are not authorised using a personal message.

Statistics and audience monitoring

Our admin console allows you to obtain detailed statistics about the audiences for your streams. Visualize your Audimat in real time, the number of unique spectators per period, the viewing time, bandwidth use etc. Find out the geographical location of your audience thanks to the geolocalisation data.
Global statistics allow you, at a glance, to see how popular all the streams you broadcast are and how much traffic they have.

Monetization and Pay per view (PPV)

You can limit access to video streams using a unique key for each visitor. This allows you to control video broadcasting according to user and to only authorise certain people and deny access to others. This can be useful in the cases like pay-per-view like Adswizz, an ad server specialized in incorporating advertising in video streams.

Other functionalities

Dashboard
Keep an eye on your streams at all times thanks to our tracking widgets. Learn more

Logging events.

Compatible with Flash media encoder, Wirecast and FFmpeg.

Several spaces for storage.
You can define several ftp accounts for storing your recordings, including ftp accounts outside Infomaniak Network.

Reliability and availability

In order to offer you broadcasting without faults or downtime, our network architecture and technical infrastructure incorporate numerous security systems. Learn more

24/24 network monitoring

If there is the slightest break on streaming, an email is sent to the customer automatically. Infomaniak is alerted by pager and an engineer is available 24/24h to restore proper function of the service.

Robustness

With video streaming, your live video streams have a more or less unlimited space for broadcasting for overall viewing that was previously impossible. With Infomaniak they will also benefit from unrivalled broadcasting quality.

High-capacity connection

The servers managing video streaming are in our datacentre in Carouge, linked by 2 20 GB dark fibres each, allowing peak traffic of up to 40 GB per second.

Servers in load balancing

For unlimited broadcasting, even when there are major peaks in audiences, we provide twenty servers in load balancing, dedicated to receiving and broadcasting streams.

Incoming servers

2 servers (live broadcasters) of which 1 reserve using WOWZA technology guaranteeing both fail-over (in case of a fault) for the live broadcasters and and load balancing for live reflectors.

Distribution servers

10 WOWZA servers in N+1 cluster for broadcasting streams on the client side. These distribute the listeners for different streamings. We have installed resistant routing to eliminate any risks of network attacks using special configuration.