Free Developer Account

Free accounts are designed for development/testing with constrained quality settings and capacity for up to 3 users. Supports WebRTC & RTMP/HLS live video streaming.

  • Get streaming details to configure streaming instantly, after contact email confirmation. If you have trouble receiving confirmation check Spam folders and use a Gmail address.
  • After registration and email confirmation you will also receive credentials to login and configure your streaming from My Accounts .
  • Free Developer accounts are available for limited time and may be discontinued or changed  anytime in the future.

Free account limitations (subject to change):

Streams ~532kbps

1 Way Viewers

2 Way Privates

Max Resolution

Max Frame Rate

Max Bitrate

Max Audio Bitrate

Total Account Bitrate

Max Connections

5

3

1

640x360p

15 fps

750 kbps

32 kbps

2.7 Mbps

10

Streaming Plans

RTMP/HLS live streaming is available with:

  • Turnkey Streaming Site plans that include web, streaming + full mode site application support:
    Get a turnkey streaming site setups with a solution like PaidVideochat, FansPaysite, BroadcastLiveVideo from $100/mo.
  • Complete Hosting plans that include web + streaming hosting:
    Get complete hosting with live video streaming, web hosting with video on demand support from $50/mo.
  • Streaming Only plans that only provide streaming server services:
    Get streaming only services to configure in own site and project from $30/mo.

Stream from Own VPS/Server

A live video streaming server can be deployed on own dedicated server or VPS.  This includes installation and configuration for:

  • VideoWhisper streaming signaling server (NodeJS) with WebRTC support
  • RTMP/HLS stream management module for VideoWhisper NodeJS server
  • CoTurn (STUN/TURN) server with specific configuration
  • Nginx with specific configuration

The extra RTMP/HLS module provides integration features between streaming and web server, required to control streaming (broadcast and playback) with PINs and list live streams on site with special callbacks.

Requirements

 

  • Working Linux distribution (preferably CentOS, CloudLinux or similar)
  • SSL certificate for a pointed domain, accessible as crt & key files (can be retrieved from WHM), intermediary certificate
  • open ports:
    • 1935 TCP = RTMP server, customizable
    • 1936 TCP = HLS server, customizable
    • 3000 TCP = NodeJS secure server (WSS + HTTPS), customizable
    • 3001 TCP = NodeJS local integration server, customizable
    • 3478 UDP = WebRTC STUN/TURN discovery. Other: 5349 for TLS, 19305/19307 Google STUN server.
    • 6970-10000 UDP = WebRTC live streaming.
  • Starting Hardware: VPS  with +4 CPU cores, 8Gb RAM, 250Mbps connection.

Access: hosting control panel and phpMyAdmin access to deploy MySQL part (if accounts, plan restrictions, stats are needed).
Not included: SSL certificate installation and configuration for domain and crt/key files (must be already available), unless using WHM.

Pricing: Professional installation with RTMP/HLS module and specific configurations is available from $500/setup.

  • VideoWhisper Terms of Use, Privacy Policy apply for consulting services and support, Site2Stream Terms & Website Services Contract for site services.
  • A RTMP/HLS live streaming server enables users to broadcast with encoder apps like OBS and site users to watch live stream as HLS.
  • RTMP can be published with encoders like OBS, mobile Larix Broadcaster but can’t be played directly in browsers. Projects require a live streaming server / host that can deliver the live video stream in a HTML5 format like HLS.

Get a free consultation to explore current HTML5 live streaming options suitable for your project. Depending on live streaming scenario, there’s different protocols and streaming server types that may be recommended for your project.

 

 

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