SRT – A New Open Source Protocol For Low-Latency Video Transport Over The Internet
Once logged in you can set content preferences to let us know what you are interested in and whether you want to receive email from us.
Already Registered? Login
Millions of dollars of savings are being achieved as broadcasters continue to switch from expensive satellite ad-hoc contribution to the public internet. Reliability, low latency, and high-quality connectivity has been difficult to achieve and wrapped in secrecy as vendors locked broadcasters into proprietary software and centralized server systems.
But in a ground-breaking development, Haivision have open-sourced their internet media distribution protocol. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) facilitates broadcast-quality and cost-effective media exchange. It not only meets the stringent timing and latency requirements of video and audio streaming but has made the source code freely available to download.
Private networks also take advantage of SRT as its firewall friendly. Removing TCP from the protocol significantly reduces latency and peak demands on the network, and swapping FEC for ARQ optimizes bandwidth.
SRT looks like it has enormous potential and is already in use by ESPN, the EBU, and Ericsson. And if you want to see how it works, you can even download the code, compile, and test it yourself.
This whitepaper is a valuable source of information and will improve the knowledge of anybody wanting to further their understanding of internet media distribution.
You might also like...
Broadcast Standards: The Principles, Terminology & Structure Of Cloud Compute Based Systems
Here we outline the principles, advantages, and various deployment models for cloud compute infrastructure, along with the taxonomy of cloud compute service providers and the relevant regulatory frameworks.
Live Sports Production: Broadcast Controllers & Orchestration In Live Sports Systems
As production infrastructure, processing resources and the underlying networks required become ever more complex, powerful tools are required to plan, deploy and monitor.
Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast: Monitoring The Media Supply Chain
Why monitoring the multi-format delivery ecosystem starts with a holistic approach to the entire media supply chain.
IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 3 - Monitoring Your Remote Systems
Monitoring what is happening in a remote system depends on being able to ask for something to be checked and having the results reported back to you. There are many ways to do this. This article looks at some simple…
Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure – Part 1
Welcome to Part 1 of Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure. This collection of articles is the first in a new series which expands on the enormously popular ‘Broadcast Standards - The Book’ by Cliff Wootton. Over the coming months a series of Th…