Introduction

No command lines, just a friendly face.

Developed to reduce the complexity and simplify the process of prepping video content for streaming. Introducing Bitstreams. The web app that delivers a streamlined, visual approach to easily manage streaming content and maximize the performance of your VPU hardware.

• Simplified to configure and distribute live streams without touching complicated FFmpeg command lines
• Pre-configured templates help you manage and monitor your workflow through our web app or an integrated API

Supported Features

• Containerized deployment operation and maintenance
• H.264 / H.265 / AV1 encoding
• Supports NETINT Quadra VPUs
• System runs 24/7/365
• Dashboard provides visual quick-check for:
  • Streaming Error Alerts
  • System Health Check
  • CPU/VPU hardware capacity loads
• Generates report logs for stream status
• Template based configurations for live stream sessions, set once-use many
• Managed through web app or an integrated API

User Interface Features
Live Sessions	- Configurable ladder templates - Stream health - View outbound streams in player - VOD Recording - Multiple outputs on the same input - Convert DVB Teletext/Subtitles to WebVTT (HLS only) - Convert DVB Teletext/Subtitles to TMLL (CMAF and DASH only)
Offline Sessions	- File to File transcoding

Specifications

Input

	Inputs
Codecs	- H.264 - H.265 - MPEG-2 (CPU only) - H.264 LCEVC (x86/amd64 only)
Protocols	- RTMP (Push and Pull) - SRT (Caller and Listener) - UDP MPEG-TS (SPTS/MPTS) - HLS - DASH - RTSP - Capture Card (SDI) - ST-2110 (Requires Blackmagic Card)
Formats	- Progressive - Interlaced

LCEVC

LCEVC is only avialable on x86 CPU.
The implementation only creates a compliant stream and no enchancement layer is created.

Output

	Outputs
Video Codecs	- H.264 - H.265 - AV1
Protocols	- HLS - DASH - UDP Multicast/Unicast (SPTS only) - RTMP Push (Legacy and Enhanced) - SRT (Caller and Listener) - AWS MediaPackage v2 (HLS) - Capture Card (SDI) - File (Continuous) - CMAF - WHIP (WebRTC)
Formats	- Progressive
Audio Codecs	- AAC - AC3 - EAC3 - Copy - Opus

Support Capture Cards

The following capture cards have been validated with Bitstreams:

• Blackmagic Decklink Duo 2
• Blackmagic Decklink 8K Pro
  • For resolutions 4kp60 10-bit and higher are not supported on the T1M or the Quadra Mini Server
• Blackmagic IP 100G
  • Supports upto 8x ST-2110 streams