What do we want to accomplish in 2026?

Chances are we will be doing very different things since that's almost always how it ends up going, however we felt it might be fun to post what we are planning to accomplish or at least what we wish to focus on this year.

For now we have 3 main categories on which we'll want to focus. Obviously this is not all we're going to do as we have many projects that we want to complete. Projects can either be part of these categories or just their own project, because we want to finish it. We just wanted to try and narrow down our the biggest wishes, so we can verify whether we've achieved what we wanted when 2027 comes around.

Raw video / audio feeds and improvements

We've started dabbling in raw video/audio ever since we started with SDI feeds and we very much plan to improve this. Soon we'll be releasing the compositor which already does some of this, but there's way way more out there. More SDI cards, NDI feeds, SMPTE 2110. Improvements for our own MistProcAV encoder.

I do think our first focus will be on improving the Compositor (previously known as Multiview) and showing it as the great tool we think it is. So that's where our immediate focus will go.

Multiserver interface, hole punching, load balancing and load testing

MistServer has had a load balancer for quite a long time already and we believe this is the year we'll "properly" release it. The one thing that has been holding it back is an interface, but also our own plans. We've been wanting to improve on the load balancer with tools such as load testing, hole punching between servers, but also viewer and server and even allowing a single interface to control multiple MistServer instances. Of course this also has some side tasks such as a cache directory, but even an API we've been planning for quite a while in order to make this all easier and possible.

This isn't the immediate focus, but I personally very much long for the new API as our current one feels quite dated.

Transmuxing, Transcoding & Decentralisation

MistServer at its heart is an Transmuxer and we'll always keep that in our core. In fact, we're always busy upgrading and improving this. Not too long ago we've added the Enhanced RTMP spec and we'll be adding new protocols/possibilities as they come in. However we've also seen the difficulties newer users have when setting up their own media server and would like to make this process easier. We're setting up our own infrastructre: Frameworks, which will be a decentralized platform that we feel fills a need quite well. You can run solely on the platform, or use your own servers and have Frameworks serve as the back-up should you no longer be able to handle your load.