Bitstreams by NETINT Featured
Launch broadcast-grade live channels in minutes. No FFmpeg command lines, no encoding scripts, no guesswork.
Launch a live, private 20-minute demo of Bitstreams by NETINT on the NetActuate edge - on demand, no signup, no card.
Live video encoding usually means hand-built FFmpeg pipelines: fragile scripts, tribal knowledge, and hours lost every time a stream misbehaves. Bitstreams removes all of that. It is a complete live encoding platform with a visual web console that turns NETINT Quadra VPUs into production-ready streaming infrastructure anyone on your team can operate.
Configure a live channel in a few clicks: pick your input, apply an encoding ladder template, and publish to your viewers in H.264, HEVC, or AV1. Because encoding runs on dedicated Quadra VPU hardware rather than CPUs, you get far higher channel density per server and predictable performance at a fraction of the power and compute cost of software encoding.
Bitstreams is built for 24/7 broadcast operations. A real-time dashboard shows every stream's health, flags encoding issues as they happen, and tracks VPU, CPU, memory, and per-card hardware status at a glance. Reusable templates let you standardize your encoding ladders once and apply them to every new channel, and a full REST API lets you automate everything the console can do.
Key features
- Point-and-click live channels. Create, monitor, and manage live encoding sessions from a browser. Templates make configurations repeatable: set once, use many, export and import between servers.
- Every codec that matters. Encode H.264, HEVC, and AV1 simultaneously from a single input, with AAC, AC3, EAC3, and Opus audio.
- Connect to anything. Ingest RTMP, SRT, UDP MPEG-TS, HLS, DASH, RTSP, RTP, ST 2110, and SDI capture. Deliver to HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, RTMP, UDP multicast and unicast, WHIP (WebRTC), AWS MediaPackage v2, SDI, and file.
- Broadcast-grade tooling. SCTE-35 passthrough, DVB teletext and subtitle conversion to WebVTT and TTML, input failover, slates, VOD recording of live sessions, and multiple outputs from one input.
- Operate with confidence. Live dashboard for stream health, encoding alerts, VPU and host utilization, and per-card hardware telemetry including firmware and temperature.
- Automate at scale. Token-secured REST API for programmatic control of streams, templates, and settings.
Deploy on the NetActuate edge Deploy Bitstreams on NetActuate compute with NETINT Quadra VPUs across 45+ global points of presence, and put encoding capacity close to your sources and your audiences. The Bitstreams software is included; you pay only for the NetActuate infrastructure you use. NETINT supports the application, NetActuate runs the platform, so you get one accountable partner on each side of the stack.
Go from bare metal to a live channel in under an hour. Full product documentation is at https://docs.netint.com/bitstreams/.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Bitstreams by NETINT on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Bitstreams by NETINT on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Bitstreams by NETINT?
Bitstreams by NETINT is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can Bitstreams by NETINT run?
Bitstreams by NETINT can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Bitstreams by NETINT?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its vendor, NETINT.
