Limelight Stream Anywhere

Online video is no longer tied to the computer screen. It has broken free into a world of portable and connected devices—tablets, phones, TVs, and more. And that user freedom to watch video from anywhere has increased the complexity of video publishing workflows. From generating multiple versions of files to incorporating specific mobile device requirements into the publishing process, businesses can quickly become overwhelmed with ensuring their video content is viewable wherever their users want it.

Limelight Stream Anywhere hides that complexity by converting content automatically to the requesting device. Coupled with the proven, global Limelight CDN, this means you can be assured that your content can be viewed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world!

Publish Once, Deliver Anywhere

Limelight Stream Anywhere enables you to publish a single stream of RTMP* content and have it automatically converted** into Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)***. What makes Limelight Stream Anywhere different from other software or hardware solutions for preparing content for mobile delivery is that the conversion of the RTMP content into HLS or HDS happens at the time of request. There is no pre-preparation required. And once converted, content is available in the CDN cache meaning it doesn’t get converted again until it expires out of cache.

* Future inputs may include MP_TS and HTTP streams

** Limelight Stream Anywhere does not include support for transcoding into lower bitrates from a single, high bitrate stream. You must provide a RTMP stream for each bitrate you wish converted. Future versions of Limelight Stream Anywhere will include the ability to transcode a high bitrate stream into multiple lower bitrate streams prior to conversion into other formats.

*** Future formats supported for automatic conversion including Smooth Streaming and RTSP

More Than Just Streaming

Limelight Stream Anywhere also includes DVR functionality for your live streams. This means that users who come late to an event can “rewind” back to the beginning. Details on how to implement DVR functionality into your player can be obtained from a Limelight Networks Solutions Engineer.

Future versions of Limelight Stream Anywhere DVR will provide the ability to save live events as on-demand assets.

Real-Time Reporting for HTTP Formats

Limelight Stream Anywhere includes powerful new reporting features designed to provide insight into chunked HTTP formats like HLS, HDS, and Smooth Streaming. These reports include real-time and historic analysis of aggregated and individual live events sliced by a variety of datapoints including region, format, bitrate, and viewing duration.

Do It Yourself!

For customers looking to publish RTMP streams for conversion into HTTP (HLS and HDS), Limelight Stream Anywhere includes automated self-provisioning. Through Limelight CONTROL, customers can provision a live event, schedule it from a few hours to a few months in the future all without any interaction from Limelight sales or support.

Support For

Limelight Stream Anywhere provides support for delivery to the following formats

• Automatic Conversion
  • Flash (RTMP) to Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
  • Flash (RTMP) to Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
• Supported Delivery (via specific media servers or from customer origin)
  • Flash (RTMP)
  • Quicktime (RTSP)
  • Windows Media
  • Microsoft Smooth Streaming

Additional Services

• Content security using URL authentication
• SSL transaction security
• Bandwidth Control
• Compliance with geographic restrictions
• APIs
• AES 128-bit encryption for HLS chunks

Future additional services may include support for DRM, ad stitching, and campaign management.