Unified Virtual Channel

Streaming meets linear TV

Virtual channels are OTT-only live linear channels produced “virtually” from other sources.

Combine ready-to-stream, pre-encoded VOD media with live channels to give your viewers the most flexible and familiar TV-like experience possible.

Leave the limitations of traditional linear broadcast workflows for a software-focused, playlist-driven streaming solution with a new, easy-to-use API.

Table of contents

• What is Unified Virtual Channel

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • How to run
  • Documentation and Usage

• Configuration
  • Security
    • API Key authorization
    • RabbitMQ credentials
    • Enabling TLS / HTTPS
  • Storage
    • Local or network filesystem
    • HTTP object storage (S3-compatible)
  • Remix Timeout
  • Automatic transition deletion

• User Guide
  • Channels
    • Channel creation
    • Checking channel creation job status
    • Amending/modifying channels
    • Listing and deleting channels
  • Transitions
    • Transition creation
    • Checking transition creation job status
    • Amending/modifying transitions
    • Listing and deleting transitions
  • SMIL creation
    • VOD2Live SMIL
      • SCTE 35 for ad insertion
    • Live SMIL
    • Handling live source latency
      • Find your live stream latency
      • Set a VOD2Live delay
    • Content matching
      • Setting a target profile
    • Limitations
    • DRM protection
  • Manifest Edit pipelines
    • Adding a pipeline to the base channel
    • Adding a pipeline to a channel "variant"
    • Keeping track of pipelines and variants
    • Deleting pipelines
  • Troubleshooting

• FAQ
  • General
  • Deployment
  • Content
  • Channel/transition creation
  • Channel deletion/modification
  • Manifest Edit