Hey everyone!

Like every year, the MistServer team will be exhibiting at IBC2025!
If you're planning on attending, be sure to drop by and say hi.
We’ll be happy to share our latest updates, upcoming plans or even steal a few great ideas from you if you've got them.

Our booth can be found at 5.F43

Note: IBC will charge for tickets unless you use a customer code.
Feel free to use ours: IBC6310. You’ll need this near the end of the signup process.

Using the code will make entry free, but also forward the information you enter during signup to us. We will send you a single "thank you" email and then throw that data away.

Here are just a few of the things we’ll be showcasing:

Presentation: Building your own media pipeline powered by Open Source software

Speaker: Jaron Viëtor
Day: Sunday 14 Sep
Time: 12:45-13:00
Location: Hall 5 (5.A28)

Modular streaming platform powered by MistServer

Most streaming platforms lock you into their ecosystem. We do things differently and give you the keys.
MistServer is fully open source, and not only can you self-host your own platform, we actually recommend it.
Run and own everything yourself, yet be able to count on our team for support, advice and custom development.

Broadcast quality & encoding

MistServer has always focused on stream repackaging and internet distribution,
resulting in a robust server that supports nearly every streaming protocol.
However, one area we've been limited in is raw video signals and encoding.
That’s about to change. This year, we're introducing support for raw video signals such as SDI, NDI and (USB) webcams, along with encoding and decoding capabilities.
This means you can now build a complete studio-to-studio or studio-to-server contribution setup using just MistServer.

Updates & improvements

One of our most common questions: What’s new? Fortunately, our changelog has the details, but feel free to ask us in person anyway. We’re always happy to talk shop!

Hello everyone!

We will be returning to IBC this year as well This year you'll find at booth 5.F43. Joining us this year will be Sipradius, together we've made some exciting solutions we'll be proudly showing off.

So be sure to drop by if you want to see the last things we've been working on. Pick our brain about how to solve something, or simply drop by to steal our chocolates.

Hello everyone,

Traditionally MistServer had a PDF available as a manual, which contained great amounts of information. Perhaps a little too great as the PDF itself became bigger and bigger, and perhaps slightly too unwieldy.

We've decided to convert the manual to an online environment, allowing easier small edits and improving general usability.

We've reached a point where the majority of the documentation is now available and updated. So we're happy to start redirecting towards it. You can find it here. We've now started adapting some of the blog posts into How-to guides as well. Of course a proper search method will have to follow as well.

We will eventually put the documentation online in Github as well so users can easily suggest edits or request pages. Until we've reached that point feel free to email comments, suggestions or requests to info@mistserver.com.

No worries for the PDF lovers out there, we will update the PDF at our usual irregular schedule.

Hello everyone,

Like always we'll be exhibiting at IBC. We have our own booth 5.B57 in Hall 5 (Content Everywhere). If you're visiting Amsterdam during 15-18 September this year be sure to drop by!

This year Marco van Dijk is giving a presentation about our new creation: Streamcrafter

Date: Saturday 16 September

Time: 17:00

Stage: 1 (Stand 5A.28)

It'll be the first showcase of it. We'll want to keep the specifics a surprise for the presentation, but what we can share at this point is that Streamcrafter is a in-browser broadcasting studio.

Hey all!

As most of you probably know, about a year and a half ago in October 2021, Livepeer acquired DDVTech (the company that is building MistServer).

The partnership enabled the open sourcing of a decentralized media server, combining the two technologies, which serves as the backbone for Livepeer’s streaming platform. By early 2023 Livepeer was seeing traction within its core web3-focused market, and decided to lean into building for and serving only this market. This meant potentially winding down the MistServer team and project. To prevent this from happening, Livepeer offered the MistServer team the opportunity to spin back out the project and focus on their own core activities: MistServer-related services and technologies. Not wanting to let the project die, and not wanting to let down all our customers and users that rely on MistServer for their day-to-day operations, we naturally decided to take this option.

So, I'm happy to now formally announce that as of March 2023, DDVTech has a new majority shareholder: "OptiMist Video". OptiMist Video is entirely owned by the engineers on the MistServer team. DDVTech will continue to provide services and products exactly as it has been, and the MistServer team continues to be employed by DDVTech.

This allows us to fully focus on MistServer and related services and technologies once more. We're looking forward to continuing to help our customers, including Livepeer, with their integrations/operations/products based on MistServer. We've enjoyed working on widely varied applications such as streaming platforms, rack encoders, self-driving cars and low latency videochat applications and are eager for more challenges in the future.

If you have any questions, you can reach us through all the usual channels, like our contact form.