Livestream Platform Tech Specs

• • Storage Limit
  • Unlimited for uploaded video or recorded live streams on Basic, Premium and Enterprise plans. Unlimited but restricted to 30 days archive on Free plans.
• • Simultaneous Viewers Limit
  • Unlimited. Past events received over 1,000,000 simultaneous viewers.
• • Servers

  • Thousands of servers worldwide located in most countries on all continents:

    North America  |  South America  |  Europe  |  Middle East  |  Africa  |  Asia Pacific

• • Video Codec
  • H.264 via high-end proprietary software encoding library built into all Livestream encoding products (Livestream for Producers, Livestream Studio).
• • Audio Codec
  • AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
• • • Bit-Rate Details
    • Resolution
    • Bitrate
    • Sample Rate
    • Mono Audio Bitrate
    • Stereo Audio Bitrate
    • Frame Rate
    • Profile
  • • Mobile
    • 480x270
    • 150 Kbps
    • 22,050 Hz
    • 24 Kbps
    • 48 Kbps
    • 29.97 or 25 fps
    • Baseline
    • Normal
    • 512x288
    • 350 Kbps
    • 44,100 Hz
    • 48 Kbps
    • 96 Kbps
    • 29.97 or 25 fps
    • Main
    • Medium
    • 768x432
    • 550 Kbps
    • 44,100 Hz
    • 64 Kbps
    • 128 Kbps
    • 29.97 or 25 fps
    • Main
    • High
    • 858x480
    • 1,500 Kbps
    • 48,100 Hz
    • 128 Kbps
    • 256 Kbps
    • 29.97 or 25 fps
    • Main
    • HD 720p
    • 1280x720
    • 2,000 Kbps
    • 48,100 Hz
    • 160 Kbps
    • 320 Kbps
    • 29.97 or 25 fps
    • Main
• • Cloud Recording

  • Record all live stream bitrates in real time as MP4 files. MP4 files are not re-transcoded and are available for download for the account owner, or playback using the Livestream on-demand player.
    
    Limited to 24 hours of continuous recording.

• • DVR

  • 4 hour limit on web browser playback via HTML5.

    24 hour limit on web browser playback via Flash.

• • Playback on Web Browsers

    (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, ...)

  • HTML5 player using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Flash player (over HTTP), both with adaptive multi-bitrate support.

• • Playback on iOS and tvOS

    (iPad, iPhone, Apple TV)

  • Native player using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with adaptive multi-bitrate support.

• • Playback on Android

  • Native player using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with adaptive multi-bitrate support.

• • Playback on Roku Connected TV

  • Native player using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with adaptive multi-bitrate support.

• • Closed Caption

  • Available cross platform (FCC compliant).

    Contact us for details and availability.

• • Live Ingest Protocol
  • RTMP over port 80 and 443.
• • Live Ingest Server Location
  • • Free Accounts
    • New York, NY
    • Basic, Premium and Enterprise Accounts
    • Local ingest server in your country.
• • Player Embed Format
  • iFrame
• • Player SSL Support
  • Yes
• • Geoblocking
  • Block or authorize viewers to watch your event by country, city, zip code or IP address. (Enterprise Plan)
• • Analytics
  • Livestream Analytics designed to provide all the answers marketers need when live streaming events.
    
    Google Analytics also supported.
• • End-to-End Latency
  • • Web Browsers
    • < 30 seconds
    • iOS
    • < 1 minute
    • Android
    • < 1 minute
    • Roku
    • < 2 minutes
• • Video Upload and Transcoding
  • • Video Upload Format
    • MP4
    • Video Upload Protocol
    • HTTP
    • Automated transcoding into 4 bitrates (including HD 720p) via high-quality proprietary transcoder.
• • Image Upload and Transcoding
  • • Image Upload Formats
    • JPG, GIF, PNG
    • Image Upload Protocol
    • HTTP