Tech Report
It wasn’t that long ago when video played only a small part in digital media consumption over the internet. With the advent of compression technology and video distribution solutions that allow for real-time media streaming, we now consume video at a mad rate.
Despite the ease with which we consume, there’s still a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make the distribution of video to any viewer’s streaming device happen with but a tap of a screen. It’s no small task and if you’ve ever tried to set up a website or dive headfirst into the business side of media streaming, you know it takes a robust network to support that kind of operation.
The problem with most networks and load balancing solutions on the market is that they are optimized for web pages and short bursts of traffic, not the graphic-heavy, large-content nature of video. Distributing your video content to any streaming device anywhere in the world takes a special kind of solution.
MistServer markets itself as a media toolkit designed to make video distribution a cinch, allowing you to stream video from virtually any location, and with any method, delivering it to any endpoint, anywhere and in any format. Excuse my liberal use of the word “any,” but this is an all-inclusive media toolkit that takes care of the heavy lifting for you.
Thanks to its open-source core, there are no compatibility issues that would block the use of various formats. It’s open, it’s easy and most of all it works. In fact, it was designed from the ground up as a perfect fit for developers. While it works a standalone solution for media streaming and video distritbution, it truly shines when seamlessly integrated on the system level.
“MistServer, at its core, is a fresh approach to how a media server should work,” the website reads. “MistServer follows the Unix principle of having one application for each task, bound together by a Controller application that handles configuration and monitoring. However, MistServer goes a step further still: each connection is handled by a separate process.”
Customer support is one of the key factors that will make or break a software experience. If you run into a snag or need a hand digging yourself out of a digital hole, you need a knowledgeable person at the origin point of the software. DDVTech, the company behind MistServer, promises you won’t end up on the phone with a call center, trying to desperately fix an issue with someone who doesn’t know the product in and out. The team that wrote the software are also the people who deal with support.
In a world where everyone owns some form of a streaming device, you just found a way to connect and that’s with MistServer.
You can find out more information by visiting MistServer.com.
