Live Stream Control Room

Drag to rotate · wheel/pinch to zoom · cubes are video segments in flight

REAL-TIME ANALYTICS (SIMULATED)

0concurrent viewers

18sglass-to-glass latency

0/minchat rate

0hwatch time (session)

Average viewer buffer health

ENCODER / INGEST

Source bitrate: 6.0 Mbps (RTMP to ingest)

Low-latency mode
chunked segments (~4s) vs standard HLS (~18s)

Chat slow mode (moderation)
throttles msgs, cuts spam spikes

TRANSCODE LADDER

1080p 6 Mbps

720p 3 Mbps

480p 1.2 Mbps

240p 0.4 Mbps

Disable a rung and watch viewers assigned to it start rebuffering (they turn red) as they're forced onto a tier their connection can't sustain.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Contribution (RTMP/SRT)

Your encoder (OBS etc.) pushes one high-quality stream to an ingest server, usually over RTMP or SRT.

2. Transcode ladder (ABR)

The platform re-encodes that one feed into multiple renditions (1080p→240p). Adaptive Bitrate lets each player pick the rung its bandwidth can sustain and switch mid-stream — that is why ladders exist.

3. Delivery (HLS/DASH + CDN)

Video is chopped into small segment files served over plain HTTP, cached by CDN edge servers near viewers. Standard HLS buffers ~3 segments, so latency is often 15–30s; low-latency HLS ships partial chunks for ~3–6s (values are typical estimates).

4. Analytics

Concurrent viewers = players heartbeating right now. Watch time = summed viewing minutes (the retention metric). Chat rate proxies engagement; moderation (slow mode, blocked terms) trades raw volume for signal.