Streaming · every product, one page

Streaming at Primcast. Which page is yours?

A radio station, a live channel, a library of videos, one big date, delivery to viewers far from your origin, a channel that needs several renditions, our own engine, or a whole server on a port that nothing meters. Each is its own product with its own page, and that page holds its plans. This one holds no price and sells nothing: it names the eight and hands you to the right one.

Runs on our servers

Five products where the server is ours and the show is yours.

You get a login, an address to send to and a link to hand out. Nobody gives you a root password, and nobody asks you to keep a machine alive. The plans for each one are on its own page.

01Radio/radio

A station, on air in ten minutes.

Icecast servers we own in New York and Bucharest, run from the Primcast dashboard, taking Icecast and SHOUTcast encoders alike. Start with a free station and its listener cap and move up when the audience does; Auto DJ comes with the paid plans. The radio page holds the three plans and is the only radio page that talks money.

02Live video/video

One encoder in, up to 1,000 watching at once.

Wowza origins we own in New York and Bucharest. Send RTMP from OBS, vMix or a hardware encoder; your viewers get HLS and a player you embed on your own page. Every plan is provisioned for 1,000 viewers at once, and the video page prints that ceiling beside the plans, along with the point where a channel has outgrown a share of a server.

03Video on demand/vod

Files people press play on.

The library rather than the feed: upload the videos, let them transcode, embed a player that plays on any device, and read who watched what. Recorded material lives here; a live channel is the card above. Its plans sit on that page.

04Event/event

One date, one crowd, no second take.

Live event streaming for a concert, a conference or a company meeting: one encoder sends, and everyone who turns up watches on whatever device they hold. It is set up for the day the audience is far larger than usual and taken down when the day is over. The order form is on that page.

05Video CDN/cdn

A stream you already run, delivered by the terabyte.

Your origin stays where it is; our edge servers carry it to viewers far from it. A monthly allowance comes free, everything above it is billed per terabyte, and the rate per terabyte falls as the volume rises. The rates and the viewer allowance are on that page.

Runs on your server

When a plan’s ceiling is the problem, rent the whole machine.

Root, the entire port, and whichever engine you want on it. None of these three pages is priced here: the port has its own pages, the machine is priced in the configurator, and the software on its own page.

06Dedicated streaming server/dedicated/streaming

A whole server for streaming.

One physical machine that is yours alone, with an unshared port that nothing meters, from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps, and your choice of software on it: Wowza, Nimble, Flussonic, Cue, or whatever you install as root. That is the one page here that answers the dedicated streaming server question, and it holds no price of its own: the port is priced on the 10 Gbps page and its siblings, and the machine in the configurator.

  • Machineyours alone
  • Portunshared
  • Trafficnothing meters it
  • Speed1 to 100 Gbps
  • Softwareyours to choose
  • Accessroot
07Transcoding/transcoding

One channel in, several renditions out, on a GPU.

A dedicated machine whose graphics card does the encoding: the channel arrives once, the card decodes it and encodes every profile in hardware, and the processor is left free. It works under Flussonic, Wowza or plain FFmpeg. The transcoding page says how many channels one card carries and what the whole machine costs a month.

08Cue/cue

Our own engine, on your server.

Cue is the live streaming engine Primcast writes itself, installed and licensed on your dedicated server. It answers the way Wowza does, so encoders, player links and passwords keep working, and it imports the channels of a Flussonic server. The Cue page says why to run it instead, what it costs and how it is ordered; the panel that sells streaming under your own brand has a page of its own.

Two answers settle it.

What are you sending us, and who is watching? A microphone, a camera, an encoder, a folder of files, or a stream you already run somewhere else; an audience of ten, of ten thousand, or not yet known. Say that on the chat and someone names the page. The support section holds the setup guides for OBS, vMix, Wirecast and the hardware encoders.

Setup guides