Secure Reliable Transport (SRT): key advantages

The Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol has gained significant traction in the world of live streaming and real-time video delivery. Originally designed by Haivision, SRT addresses many challenges of video streaming, particularly over unreliable networks like the public internet.

The SRT Alliance, a consortium of which Clevercast is a member, has been instrumental in transforming SRT from a proprietary protocol into an open-source industry standard. In this post, we explore the main benefits of the SRT protocol and how using Clevercast can help you harness them.

Benefits of using the Secure Reliable Transport protocol

Reliability on Unstable Networks

One of SRT’s standout features is its ability to maintain a reliable connection, even over unpredictable networks. It achieves this through:

• Packet Loss Recovery: By implementing retransmission mechanisms, SRT recovers lost packets efficiently.
• Adaptive Jitter Buffer: This feature dynamically adjusts to network conditions, reducing the impact of jitter on the video stream.

Since Clevercast has complete support for SRT, our clients can broadcast high-quality streams reliably over the internet from anywhere in the world.

Strong Security

SRT incorporates robust security measures, including AES encryption, to protect video streams from unauthorized access and tampering. This makes it a trusted choice for applications requiring secure data transmission, such as enterprise communication and content delivery.

Together with security and privacy measures we take – ensuring GDPR compliancy, among other things – the use of SRT ensures that our customers do not have to worry about the integrity of their livestreams.

Low Latency

SRT is designed to provide minimal latency, making it ideal for real-time video applications such as live sports, news broadcasts, and interactive video conferencing. By using advanced packet recovery techniques, SRT ensures smooth delivery without unnecessary delays.

By combining SRT with low latency streaming, overall latency can be reduced to a few seconds. This can be further optimised by using custom player settings.

Compatibility with Existing Infrastructure

SRT can be easily integrated into existing streaming workflows and is compatible with popular streaming tools and protocols. This ensures a smooth transition for organizations adopting SRT.

By supporting both SRT listener and caller configuration, Clevercast ensures that all encoders can be used, including open source software such as OBS Studio, software encoders like vMix and Wirecast, and hardware encoders like Epiphan, Haivision, Intinor and Magewell.

Cost-Effective Deployment

By enabling high-quality streaming over public internet connections, SRT eliminates the need for costly dedicated networks. This significantly reduces operational expenses for organizations delivering video content globally.

Clevercast supports SRT simulcasting, optionally with AI-generated subtitles, to relay streams to multiple global endpoints. For multilingual live streams, that means separate streams per language (video with a selected audio stream and/or subtitles) can be relayed.

Open-Source Flexibility

As an open-source protocol, SRT offers flexibility for developers to customize and integrate it into their solutions. For example, SRT enables the delivery of multi-track and multi-channel broadcasts. This capability is essential for applications that require simultaneous transmission of multiple audio or video tracks, such as multilingual broadcasts.

Clevercast accepts incoming multi-track and multi-channel broadcasts and transforms them into global multilingual live streams, allowing viewers to select their own language in the video player. So if your interpreters are on site, you can use SRT to transmit a video stream with multiple audio languages (see example configurations for Makito X, vMix, OBS).

Why use Clevercast with the Secure Reliable Transport protocol?

Clevercast offers a fully integrated SRT solution, purpose-built to meet the demands of modern broadcasting. Unlike platforms that treat SRT as a secondary option, Clevercast provides seamless support for SRT across its entire feature set. Whether you’re leveraging AI-powered subtitling and speech translation, delivering multilingual broadcasts, enabling remote simultaneous interpretation, or simulcasting to multiple platforms, Clevercast ensures the same robust functionality and exceptional quality for both SRT and RTMP streams.

🌟 Unmatched Value: By choosing Clevercast, you’re not just adopting advanced technology—you’re embracing a platform designed to empower professional broadcasters with flexibility, precision, and global reach.

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