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.