What NextGen:Mediaserver can do
A complete video pipeline: ingest, recording, processing and delivery with industrial-grade reliability.
Stream ingest and delivery
Support for popular ingest protocols and adaptive delivery to viewers.
Ingest: UDP/RTP, RTSP, RTMP, SRT, HTTP/HLS
Multicast UDP/RTP, RTSP and RTMP cameras, SRT feeds, HTTP/HLS sources. Both SPTS and MPTS are accepted. The stream type is detected automatically or set explicitly.
Delivery: HLS and multicast UDP/RTP
Low-latency HLS packaging for any number of viewers, plus simultaneous multicast UDP/RTP output for IPTV networks.
WebVTT subtitles
DVB and Teletext subtitles are extracted from MPEG-TS and converted to WebVTT, understood by all popular HLS players.
Backup sources / failover
Configure a primary and a backup source per channel — switching is automatic when the signal drops.
Caching
HLS segment caching reduces source load and speeds up delivery during peak viewing.
PID filtering and remapping
Pick a program from an MPTS, filter by TSID and PID, remap PIDs — the output is a clean SPTS of the channel you need.
Recording, Timeshift and VOD
Nothing is lost: the broadcast is recorded continuously and available for rewind and export.
DVR / archive / VOD
Continuous channel recording with a configurable retention depth and VOD-style archive access.
Timeshift
Viewers can rewind the live broadcast and return to the live edge without reconnecting.
Thumbnails
Automatic preview-frame generation for players, channel grids and archive navigation.
Integration, scale and security
Ready for production use and integration into your infrastructure.
REST / Admin API
A full API to manage channels, playlists and access, and to collect statistics.
Clustering and failover
One panel for every server, automatic failover, stream and viewer balancing, and archive replication between nodes. Free on every plan →
Transcoding
Our own H.264 engine without FFmpeg, with NVIDIA NVENC/NVDEC and Intel Quick Sync hardware acceleration. One transcode applies to every output of the channel: HLS, archive, multicast, SRT and HTTP MPEG-TS. Pro+ plan.
Failover is in the price. Always.
NGMS Cluster Manager joins your media servers into one cluster and needs no separate license — neither on the entry plan nor with a dozen nodes.
- Automatic failover with a confirmation delay, and streams coming back once the node has recovered.
- Balancing streams across nodes, and viewers by load or by subnet rules.
- Archive replication between nodes with SHA-256 verification and bandwidth limits.
- N+1 / N+M headroom planning and load growth simulation.
- Active/passive HA for the control panel itself, through PostgreSQL.
- Basic — clustering included
- Pro — clustering included
- Pro+ — clustering included
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