Unified Capture
Create clips from your stream
Unified Capture creates clips from any Unified Origin stream. Capture does the frame-accurate cutting, too. It works with both live and VOD streams, generating clips in HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS, HSS and CMAF.
Key features
Live to VOD (Catch-up TV): capture from a live stream, providing a stop time in the future - but also clip VOD streams easily by providing a start/stop time.
Unified Capture can do frame-accurate cuts in the stream. It decodes and encodes beginning and ending fragments to allow for sample-accurate timing.
Other typical use cases are:
providing nPVR on premise or in the cloud
stream validation
Main benefits
Maximize your content. Save your stream and reuse existing content. Create a VOD library, run new channels, and provide viewers appealing content with personalization tools.
Save a single copy—and reuse it. Keep only a single copy of your content on disk. Deliver it to any device. Repurpose existing content instead of creating new content.
Engage your viewers with more services. Re-start and catch-up TV, personal recordings. Watching streams has never been so flexible!
How it works
Unified Capture is a command-line tool that captures and downloads the adaptive bitrate presentation (ABR) to disk from a URL with timestamps.
Unified Capture supports capturing from the following formats:
Streaming protocol |
Capture input from Origin |
Capture output |
Type |
|---|---|---|---|
MPEG-DASH (recommended) |
Client manifest: |
fMP4: |
VOD, Live, Timed Metadata |
Microsoft Smooth Streaming |
Client manifest: |
fMP4: |
VOD, Live |
Apple HLS TS |
Media Playlist: |
MPEG-TS: |
VOD |
Apple HLS CMAF |
Media Playlist: |
fMP4: |
VOD |
Adobe HDS |
Client manifest: |
FLV: |
VOD |
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