Bridge the gap between Broadcast and IP
OTT & Broadcasters
Handle the complexity of modern broadcast workflows while maintaining the reliability standards your audience expects.
The streaming media toolkit that puts you in charge
Maintained by the OptiMist team. Capture any source, orchestrate workflows and deliver to any device.
Employee-owned, engineer-led. Public domain & open source. No external interests, no roadmap surprises. Building streaming infrastructure with customers since 2009.
Public domain license
Ship commercial workloads without proprietary license negotiation. MistServer has been permissively licensed and battle-tested since 2009.
Engineer-first support
Work directly with the developers who design and operate MistServer, MistPlayer and FrameWorks. No sales gatekeepers, no outsourced teams.
Observability built in
Telemetry, metrics and automation hooks providing full coverage of all you need to know and more.
Unmatched performance
Written in C++, modular and performance-oriented. No dependencies, no bloat, and runs on just about any device.
Toolkit
Products designed to work together; or stand solid as a rock alone
Combine MistServer, MistPlayer and FrameWorks to cover ingest, orchestration, playback, and analytics. Adopt only what you need without losing integration speed.
MistServer
Full featured media gateway and media server
Capture any source, orchestrate workflows and deliver globally with a single battle-tested runtime.
- Protocols for contribution and delivery: SDI, NDI, WHIP, SRT, HLS, DASH, RTMP/RTMPS/E-RTMP, RTSP
- Highly efficient single-buffer media gateway
- Hardware-accelerated libav pipeline with a small footprint
- Real-time telemetry, analyzers, and a clipping API
- Cluster-aware load balancing and automated failover tools
- Hooks for captions, transcription, and computer vision enrichment
- Open source under a permissive public-domain license
MistPlayer
Adaptive players for any screen
Ship fast-start playback with instrumentation and configurable UI components.
- Adaptive playback pipelines with low-latency presets
- Combines multiple trusted players into one interface
- Telemetry overlays and QoE reporting hooks
- SDKs for web frameworks, iOS, and Android
- Themeable UI with accessibility-focused defaults
FrameWorks Network
Full-stack streaming platform built on MistServer
Billing, AI processing, multi-stream compositing, and orchestration delivered as a managed service.
- Event-driven workflows for recording, clipping, and enrichment
- Billing and entitlement tooling for multi-tenant services
- Run on our hosted clusters or your own infrastructure
- Direct access to the MistServer engineering team for operations
Pipeline
From ingest to delivery without glue code
Built for integrators who need freedom with guardrails. Swap protocols, overlay AI, and move between self-hosted and managed nodes seamlessly.
Ingest
Capture any source
- Studio-quality inputs: SDI with native hardware I/O
- Camera discovery for NDI, ONVIF, VISCA, PTZ, and edge devices
- IP ingest: WHIP, SRT, RTMP/RTMPS, HLS, RTSP, Unicast/Multicast and more
Processing
Enrich your media
- SCTE-35, clipping API, live DVR and thumbnailing
- Whisper transcription, YOLOv analyzers, and automation hooks
- Native libav with hardware acceleration and low-latency pipelines
Distribution
Reach any device
- Transmuxing & push to any platform or CDN
- Access control, DRM, billing integrations, and data-path APIs
- Media-aware load balancing, clustering, and load-testing harness
Quickstart
Deploy MistServer in seconds
Copy a command, start streaming, then inspect the live dashboard. No license keys, no forced accounts, no data collection. Just production-grade tooling ready for experiments.
Option 1
Docker Compose
Complete MistServer setup with hardware accelerated transcoding, sample videos, live generation and Grafana dashboard.
git clone https://github.com/DDVTECH/mistserver-bootstrap.git && cd mistserver-bootstrap && docker-compose up -d --build Open http://localhost:4242 (admin/admin) for the MistServer dashboard, http://localhost:3000 for Grafana monitoring, and use the bundled load-testing harness when you want to push traffic.
Option 2
Linux Package
Install MistServer on Linux, including service unit.
curl -o - https://releases.mistserver.org/is/mistserver_64Vlatest.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | sh Open http://localhost:4242 to configure your node, start streaming, and run clustering or load-testing tooling as needed.
MistServer runs on just about any device, no matter how ancient. Visit our docs for more installation options and OS support. Browse the quickstart guide
Need the full stack?
FrameWorks Network layers SaaS billing, AI processing, and multi-stream compositing on top of your MistServer deployment. Bring your own nodes or let us handle operations. Coming next: Whisper-native transcription, camera discovery, and YOLOv-powered automation as first-class options.
Explore FrameWorksEngineer-first support
Every engagement connects you directly with the developers who build MistServer. No call center layers, no outsourcing.
Solutions
Trusted for streaming operations that cannot fail
Whether it is OTT, enterprise video, or automated monitoring, MistServer adapts to your workflow and integrates with the rest of your stack.
Your viewer limits · access control · region-aware delivery
Enterprise Video
Security controls and compliance features that enterprise organisations.
Millions of minutes monitored daily
Monitoring & QA
Comprehensive monitoring and telemetry tools to ensure optimal streaming quality and rapid issue resolution.
A toolkit compatible with any job
Integrators
One solution capable of adapting to any environment.
The best way of going live
Live Streaming
Handle unlimited inputs, outputs and convert to your advantage
Professional services
Turnkey help from the engineers who build the platform
We do not upsell licenses—we help you ship. Choose integration sprints, managed operations, or training to support your roadmap.
Consulting & architecture reviews
Ask the MistServer engineers anything about streaming, even when the right answer might not be MistServer. We recommend alternatives when they serve you better.
- • Roadmap and platform assessments
- • Scaling and cost-optimisation reviews
- • Objective recommendations across your media stack
Integration & custom development
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the MistServer team to add missing capabilities and land complex ingest or delivery workflows. Choose whether new code ships publicly or stays private for a period.
- • Architecture and protocol design workshops
- • Feature gap analysis with implementation plan
- • Reference configs and infrastructure-as-code handoff
Managed operations
Let us operate MistServer clusters or FrameWorks deployments with proactive telemetry, live runbooks, and incident response.
- • 24/7 monitoring and paging
- • Incident prevention and remediation playbooks
- • Capacity planning and scaling reviews
Training & enablement
Bring your team up to speed with tailored workshops and ongoing office hours.
- • Hands-on labs using your environment
- • Custom documentation & runbooks
- • Regular office hours with engineers
Stories from the field
"Since working with MistServer, we are deeply impressed by their expertise in video technologies and the high-quality work they put into the platform. MistServer has been instrumental for Livepeer to provide global live streaming with high reliability and low latency."
"The people at DDVTech know their craft inside-out — the best in the industry. Easy to work with and extremely capable. Highly recommended."
"Working with the MistServer team has been and continues to be a most pleasant and rewarding experience. The team epitomises experience, efficiency, effective solutions, energetic responses and enthusiastic support."
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Developers
Everything you need to build, automate, and monitor
Follow the quickstart, automate with APIs, and join a community where engineers lead every conversation.
Documentation hub
Guides, API reference, configuration examples, and release notes.
Community & feedback
Employee-owned means we answer directly and adapt quickly. Tell us what you need.
Ready when you are
Run MistServer on your terms
Launch a sandbox today, or book time with the engineers who will help you architect a future-proof streaming platform.