Flussonic Media Server

2019: The DRM and IPTV Middleware installation for client devices with Flussonic Media Server

The Russian integrator of the software Digit announced on July 17, 2019 carrying out together with Flussonic company (the player in a segment of the market of delivery and transcoding of video) to integration of services of own development.

In particular, within the joint project the DRM installation (Digital Right Management) and IPTV Middleware, applications for client devices with the broadcasting Flussonic Media Server platform is carried out. The joint solution will allow to organize commercial OTT or IPTV broadcasting with support of Live TV, CatchUP, CatchForward, TimeShift, StartOver and VoD.

As expected, implementation of this project will allow not only to increase quality of interaction at a data transmission stage from producers of content to consumers, but also will make process more adaptive for interaction and further monetization by operators and owners of content.

2015: Description of Flussonic

(Data are relevant for October, 2015)

What is Flussonic?

Flussonic is a server program which can take away video from files, from IP cameras, from webcams, from IPTV of sources, etc. and to broadcast on the Internet under different protocols.

Flussonic works at the Erlang platform allowing to achieve exclusive performance at parallel processing of data, the high level of fault tolerance of the server and also giving the chance to scale the solution of the simple server to a difficult distributed network.

What is Flussonic able to do?

Flussonic contains all necessary opportunities for the organization of media of the resource distributing files, video from the satellite or TV channels.

Live Video. Flussonic can broadcast the air to thousands of at the same time connected users on different devices: desktop, iPad, Set-Top-Box, Android, SmartTV, etc. A satellite channel, the IP camera, a payment of capture or the program for coding of video can be a source of the air.

Video on demand (Video on Demand, VOD). Flussonic can effectively distribute files with adaptive fine tuning of bitrate and the choice of language. The implemented mechanisms allow to work effectively even with FullHD files the sizes on 30 GB.

DVR Flussonic allows to write video flows on a disk and to manage archive, supporting the necessary depth of archive and amount of filling of the hard drive. Is ideal for Catchup of services, for problems of video surveillance and for the built-in autonomous solutions. Unlike solutions of competitors, allows to work with archives of months-long depth.

Timeshift. Flussonic is able to wind off the air back, and also to reproduce the air with a permanent delay for the audience in other time zones. Taymshift it is limited to only depth of archive, unlike alternative solutions.

HLS: Flussonic can distribute HLS, and with support of multibitrate and multilanguages.

Cloud storage: Flussonic can take away files from HTTP servers and cloud storages like Amazon S3 and OpenStack Storage (Swift).

Transcoder: Flussonic can transcode flows from mpeg2video/h264 in h264 in several qualities.