Get the most out of your live streams
with our innovative features.
Live encoding - 100% audience reach
Devices, Codecs, Formats
LiveTranscoding.com enables you to stream live content to any device with the best possible viewing experience.
- Desktop: Windows, Mac and Linux
- iOS devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
- Android 2.2+ enabled devices compatible with Flash Player 10.2
- Windows Phone 7 enabled devices compatible with WMV and Smooth Streaming
Adaptive Bitrate
Best viewing experience for your audience.
Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming guarantees your audience the best possible viewing experience, no matter the device or network of each viewer.
Thanks to this technology, you can provide streams in different bitrates. When the user's connection speed varies, the player of each device automatically switches between the streams.
Supported devices:
- Desktop: Windows, Mac and Linux
- All Apple Devices - Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
- All computers using MS Silverlight Player or Quicktime X player
- Windows Phone 7 using MS Smooth Streaming Player
Input Source
We support a variety of software and hardware encoding options, enabling you to easily integrate our service into your existing workflow.
Each plan comes with 1 input source, which can be changed to another at any time. This feature is essential if you wish to stream various live events one after another. If you require more than 1 input source at a time, you can add an additional plan through the Stream Manager.
Software
We support the following free software encoders:
Hardware
We support the following hardware encoders:
- Viewcast Encoders (RTMP)
- Digital Rapids Encoders (RTMP)
If you have another hardware encoder, please use our free trial to test compatibility.
Outputs
Our service offers live transcoding to all major formats, containers, codecs and protocols.
Live Formats
| Streaming Format | Delivery protocol |
Container | Video codec | Audio codec |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Flash RTMP Streaming | RTMP | FLV | H264 | AAC |
| Apple HTTP Live Streaming | HTTP | m3u8 - MPEG2 | H264 | AAC |
| Microsoft Smooth Streaming | HTTP | ismv - MPEG4 | H264 | AAC |
| Windows Media Video | MMS | ASF | WMV9 | WMA9 |
Manage live streams
The Stream Manager is an intuitive management tool that allows you to manage and modify your live streams in realtime.
Preview
Preview the quality of your live streams within the Stream Manager before publishing them.
Settings
We provide you with pre-configured settings, optimized for each format, codec and device. Additionally you can define the bitrate (quality) for each output stream yourself. This gives you the flexibility to adapt each stream to its target audience.
Start / Stop
With the Stream Manager you have full control over your input and outputs. Within seconds you can start and stop your live streams in realtime.
Upgrade
If you need additional plans, you can instantly purchase them in the Stream Manager.
Security
Our service is fully compatible with CDN Geo Restriction and Token Systems, which guarantees the security of your content.
Payment
Our flexible Pay-as-you-go payment option allows you to change your live transcoding plan on a monthly basis. We accept all major credit cards.
For payments exceeding credit card limits, please contact us at 
CDN Delivery
We are in the process of integrating major CDN providers. In our next release in September, our plans will also include CDN delivery service. You'll have the option to continue using your existing CDN account, or contract and manage everything within the Stream Manager.
Free Trial
You don't need a CDN account to set up your Free Trial of LiveTranscoding.com
EdgeCast
Existing EdgeCast clients:
Simply enter your account information in the Stream Manager to start delivering your live streams via your existing EdgeCast account.
New clients:
Get in touch with EdgeCast to set up your account.
Support
We’ve designed our service so that it’s simple to set up and easy to manage. In addition we provide you with access to our extensive documentation that will answer any questions you have. For clients who require additional support, we’ve created Advanced and Premium Support plans which you can select during the sign up process.
Knowledge Base
All plans include access to FAQs and our Knowledge Base.
Advanced
The Advanced Support gives you access to our Support Ticketing System. We guarantee a response time within 3 hours during our office/support hours.
