Simple Low Latency Streaming Platform

Features

• Sub-second average end-to-end continent-wide latency, under 2 seconds worlwide
• Royalty free solution - based on freeware Nimble Streamer
• SRT ingest - broadcast with any SRT capable broadcaster, including freeware OBS and Larix Broadcaster
• SLDP egress - plays in any MSE capable browser

Setup

Deploying the architecture

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console
2. Switch to the AWS region that is closest to your broadcast location
3. Click the button below to launch the CloudFormation template. Alternatively you can download the template and adjust it to your needs.

4. Choose the instance type for your server; make your choice depending on how much you will need to stream (use figures here as reference); you will be able to change the instance size later, or just discard the stack and create a new one with a different setup
5. Leave all other settings to default
6. Hit the Create Stack button.
7. Wait for the Status to become CREATE_COMPLETE. Note that this may take 1-2 minutes or more.
8. Under Outputs, notice the keys named IngressEndpoint and EgressEndpoint; write these down for using later

Testing your setup

1. Point your SRT encoder to the srt://... address output by CloudFormation above as IngressEndpoint
2. Open the SLDP test player here and set it up with the URI output by CloudFormation above as EgressEndpoint

Integration

For browser playback, you'll have to set up and integrate the free SLDP player here

To integrate with mobile apps you can make use of the commercial SDK here

Notes

• Setup only uses a single stream, namely stream1; you will have to alter the template if you need to broadcast more streams simultaneously or if you want to name them differently
• The CloudFormation template creates a VPC with the internal IP range 10.129.0.0/16; be sure to change this if it overlaps with other VPCs