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What initial parameters of your live streams and videos we can accept

Supported parameters

The Streaming Platform supports:

  • Receiving live streams from your server (PULL) or a dedicated publishing point (PUSH) using the RTMP, RTSP, or SRT. The stream is transcoded to get streams of lower quality and sent with adaptive streaming via CDN in  HLS/MPEG-DASH (CMAF Low Latency) formats. 
  • Uploading videos in almost any format, from standard MP4 to 4k HDR Video, is transcoded to get videos of lower quality and sent with adaptive streaming via CDN in HLS format.

Note! To get a PUSH point for the SRT protocol, write to us in the chat or at support@gcore.com

We recommend the following parameters for streams:

Parameters

Value

Video Bitrate & Resolution

Quality

 

Resolution

 

Video Bitrate Range

4k

3840x2160

20,000–51,000 Kbps (60 fps), 

13,000–34,000 Kbps (30 fps)

1440

2560x1440 

9,000–18,000 Kbps (60 fps), 

6,000–13,000 Kbps (30 fps)

1080

1920x1080  

4,500–9,000 Kbps (60 fps), 

3,000–6,000 Kbps (30 fps)

720

1280x720

2,250–6,000 Kbps (60 fps),

1,500–4,000 Kbps (30 fps) 

480

854x480 

500–2,000 Kbps

Frame rate

 

Up to 60 fps

Audio codec

AAC, MP3 

Video codec

H.264, H.265

Max original file size (only for video)

 

30 GB

Container (only for video)

3g2, 3gp, asf, avi, dif, dv, flv, f4v, m4v, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mts, m2t, m2ts, qt, wmv, vob, mkv, ogv, webm, vob, ogg, mxf, quicktime, x-ms-wmv, mpeg-tts, vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts

Keyframe frequency (only for live stream)

2s (max 4s)

Bitrate encoding

CBR

Pixel aspect ratio

Square

Audio sample rate

44.1 kHz 

Audio bitrate

128 Kbps stereo

If the recommended parameters do not suit your stream, write to us in the chat or via support@gcore.com, or contact your manager to find the solution.

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