Introduction
We provide three types of streaming services.
- Nginx-based streaming - available with CDN HTTP Live, CDN Static and CDN Static Push services.
- Wowza-based streaming - available with CDN Video, CDN Video Push and CDN Live services.
- HTTP pseudo streaming - available with CDN Static and CDN Static Push services.
Nginx-based streaming
- Available with CDN HTTP Live, Nginx based.
- For CDN live streaming and CDN video on demand.
- Requirements on origin (source) - HLS PULL, HLS PUSH, RTMP PULL and RTMP PUSH methods are supoprted.
- RTMP PUSH supports automatic transcoding into multiple bitrates.
- Streaming protocol on the CDN output is HLS.
- Please note that except RTMP the same can be achieved with CDN Static and CDN Static Push services, moreover you can re-stream any HTTP stream. Read more about it here.
Wowza-based streaming
- Available with CDN Video, CDN Video Push and CDN Live services. Wowza based.
- For CDN video on demand and CDN live streaming.
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Automatically transcodes origin stream/video file to the following 5 streaming protocols
to provide compatibility with all devices.
- RTMP/RTMPE - Real Time Messaging Protocol - for Flash players such as JW Player.
- HLS - Apple HTTP Live Streaming - for Android, Apple, QuickTime and HTML5 players such as JW Player.
- RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol - for Android, Blackberry and smartphones.
- MSS - Microsoft Smooth Streaming - for Windows Phone and Silverlight players.
- HDS - Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming - for HTML5 players such as JW Player.
- Requirements on origin (source):
- CDN video on demand - any MP4 or FLV video file is supported.
- CDN live streaming - any RTMP stream in MP4 or FLV container encoded with H.264 video codec and AAC or MP3 audio codec is supported.
HTTP pseudo streaming
- Available with CDN Static and CDN Static Push services. Nginx based.
- For CDN video on demand.
- Also known as progressive download.
- Requirements on origin (source) - any MP4 or FLV video file is supported.
- Read more about HTTP pseudo streaming.
What next?
- Test HTTP pseudo streaming in JW Player.
- Read about differences between CDN video on demand via true streaming vs. HTTP pseudo streaming.