As more and more streaming solution providers, broadcasters, and CDN providers prepare for a future filled with the widespread use of live streaming, the need for exploring more efficient protocols as an individual content producer has never been greater. This blog would focus on briefing you about SRT- an emerging streaming standards.
What is SRT?
Initially developed by Haivision Systems Inc., SRT is an open-source video transport protocol and technology stack built for optimizing streaming performance across unreliable networks with secure streams. Based on UDP, SRT makes it possible to transfer any data type, however, it is particularly optimized for audio/video streaming.
You see, what happens while streaming is, video/audio packets sent between two points experience a host of transport obstacles like bandwidth fluctuations and packet loss. As a result, video quality at the endpoint gets delivered at a lower quality than what it originally was. The goal of SRT implementation is to solve that issue.
By adapting to real-time network conditions, SRT optimizes video transport from one end to the other over unpredictable networks and minimizes packet loss, leading to a better QoE. It delivers high-quality video and audio with low latency. Not only that, with easy firewall traversal, SRT makes it possible to bring the best quality live video over the worst networks.
Benefits of SRT
- Designed to protect against jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth fluctuations due to network congestion, SRT gives you high-quality video and audio.
- Despite dealing with network challenges, video and audio are delivered with low latency with combined advantages of TCP/IP delivery and the speed of UDP.
- Industry-standard AES 128/256-bit encryption ensures secure end-to-end content transmission over the internet, including simplified firewall traversal.
- SRT is a royalty-free, next-generation open-source protocol that leads to cost-effective, interoperable, and future-proofed solutions.
Wrapping Up,
SRT looks promising and works great in streaming low latency live videos. However it is an emerging standard and it may take some time for widespread integrations across all devices- till then HLS, RTMP and MPEG-DASH would rule the game.
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