MistServerDocumentation
We have various documents and guides available, both for users and developers of MistServer. If anything is unclear or you have suggestions for improvements, please contact us.
Specifications
MistServer feature list
| Core | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| On the fly stream repackager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser based management interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Low footprint high performance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Modular design | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Low latency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiplatform | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
| Adaptive bitrate | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| SMIL RTMP multibitrate index | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Wildcard support for live/vod (single setting for multiple streams) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Passthrough | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Subtitle support | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Recording | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Smart HTML5 metaplayer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integration | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
| API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Triggers - event based server flow changes | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Stream meta-data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Prometheus integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Seamless integration with other programs/databases | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Security | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
| Digital Rights Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Access control | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Stream password protection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTTPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Rate-limiting | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Access logs | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scaling | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
| Load balancer | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pull from other servers/services | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Push to other servers/services | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Extremely fast boot times | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| One set of binaries per customer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
| Standard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Premium | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 24h priority support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Monitoring | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Appliance testing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Custom development | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
MistServer supported inbound protocols
| Protocol | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTMP single bitrate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTMP multi bitrate | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MPEG-TS (uni-/multicast) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Annex B H264 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| RTSP | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MP4 files | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| HLS files | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| HLS pull | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| TS files | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| FLV files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MKV files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP3 files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISMV files | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| DTSC files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DTSC pull | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OGG files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MistServer supported outbound protocols
| Protocol | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| DASH | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MP4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP4 live | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| HLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTMP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTMP multibitrate | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| RTMP push single-/multi bitrate | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MPEG-TS (unicast) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MPEG-TS (multicast) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MPEG-TS push | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| RTSP (stream/push) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| HDS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FLV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MKV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HSS (Silverlight) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DTSC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OGG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WAV | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| File recording (TS, MKV, FLV, MP3, WAV) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
MistServer video support matrix
| AVC/H264 | HEVC/H265* | AV1 | VP8/VP9 | MPEG2/H262* | Flash** | Theora | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTSC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HLS | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - | - |
| DASH* | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | - | ✗ |
| MKV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP4 | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| RTMP/FLV/HDS | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - |
| RTSP* | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| TS | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| OGG | ✗ | ✗ | - | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| HSS | ✓ | - | - | - | ✗ | - | - |
"-" stands for Not Applicable
* MistServer Pro only
** The flash codecs are VP6, JPEG, H.263 and Screen Video 1&2.
MistServer audio support matrix
| AAC | AC3* | MP3 | MP2 | Flash | Vorbis | Opus | PCM | G711 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTSC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
| DASH* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | - | ✗ | ✗ | - | - |
| MKV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MP4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| MP3 | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| RTMP/FLV/HDS | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| RTSP* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| OGG | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| WAV | - | - | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| HSS | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | - | - | - | - | - |
"-" stands for Not Applicable
* MistServer Pro only
** The flash codecs are ADPCM, Nelly and Speex.
Operating System Support
While the list below doesn't contain all of the operating systems we can run on, it's a list containing the more widely known operating systems. Want to know if another one is supported? Contact us.
| Operating System Support | Enterprise | non-commercial | open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Solaris | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux x86 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux x86_64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux ARM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux MIPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OS X | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows 64 bits | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |