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Read a stream

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

protocol variants codecs
SRT 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 WHEP Video: AV1, VP9, VP8, H265, H264
Audio: Opus, G722, G711 (PCMA, PCMU)
Other: KLV
RTSP 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 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: