SRT Protocol

SRT is a video transport protocol that is intended to be used over unreliable networks such as the public Internet. It amends the packet loss, jitter and fluctuating bandwidth to maintain the high quality of transported video stream. It has end-to-end security mechanisms to protect the transmitted data as well as it is easy to configure to work with network firewalls. If you wish to learn more about the protocol, please visit the official website.

Comprimato Twenty-One Encoder has support for 2 SRT modes of operation – Listener, Caller. In other words, this is simply the client–server model. The Listener unit is configured to connect to its own local IP address that will be receiving data from the (external) Caller unit. Therefore, the Caller machine is configured with the IP address of an external (to it) unit where the data will be listened to.

Note: SRT is a connection-oriented communication and therefore cannot use multicast IP delivery.