Category: Glossary

Delayed Stream is a feature that allows you to stream a live stream with a time delay or timeshift. For example, if your original live stream is based on India Standard Time (IST), but you need to stream it in Canada with a time difference, you can create a delayed stream using the original source, […]

Video Manager is a distinct feature from the Scheduled Playlist. Like the Scheduled Playlist, it allows you to upload videos and arrange them in a playlist. However, unlike the Scheduled Playlist, the videos in the Video Manager are not played as a live stream. Instead, viewers can select and play videos from the playlist based […]

A Scheduled Playlist is a feature that allows you to create a live stream using pre-uploaded videos. These videos are played in sequence as a live stream, one after another. With this feature, you can upload your videos to cloud storage and set up a playlist, eliminating concerns about encoder system performance or network issues […]

Multistreaming refers to the ability to simultaneously encode and distribute a live stream to multiple platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, using 5centsCDN.

Encoder Credentials are typically a combination of a URL and a Stream Key that are used to authenticate and authorize an encoder to stream content to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) origin server. The URL (FMS URL or RTMP URL) specifies the endpoint where the CDN server is located and the Stream Key is a […]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines.SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as “natural” or “organic” results) rather than direct traffic or paid traffic. Unpaid traffic may originate from different kinds of searches, including image search, video […]

FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a large suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created

Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server that currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM, and MP3 streams.

The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between endpoints.

RTMP is a TCP-based protocol that maintains persistent connections and allows low-latency communication. Most compatible codecs for RTMP are AAC (audio) and H.264 (video)