Read a stream

Live streams can be read from the server with the following protocols and codecs:

protocol	variants	codecs
SRT clients		Video: H265, H264, MPEG-4 Video (H263, Xvid), MPEG-1/2 Video Audio: Opus, MPEG-4 Audio (AAC), MPEG-1/2 Audio (MP3), AC-3 Other: KLV
WebRTC clients	WHEP	Video: AV1, VP9, VP8, H265, H264 Audio: Opus, G722, G711 (PCMA, PCMU) Other: KLV
RTSP clients	UDP, UDP-Multicast, TCP, RTSPS	Video: AV1, VP9, VP8, H265, H264, MPEG-4 Video (H263, Xvid), MPEG-1/2 Video, M-JPEG Audio: Opus, MPEG-4 Audio (AAC), MPEG-1/2 Audio (MP3), AC-3, G726, G722, G711 (PCMA, PCMU), LPCM Other: KLV, MPEG-TS, any RTP-compatible codec
RTMP clients	RTMP, RTMPS, Enhanced RTMP	Video: AV1, VP9, H265, H264 Audio: Opus, MPEG-4 Audio (AAC), MPEG-1/2 Audio (MP3), AC-3, G711 (PCMA, PCMU), LPCM
HLS	Low-Latency HLS, MP4-based HLS, legacy HLS	Video: AV1, VP9, H265, H264 Audio: Opus, MPEG-4 Audio (AAC)

We provide instructions for reading with the following software: