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.

Bugfix release 3.2.1 is now available! We've made several minor improvements that we deemed important enough to release, but did not warrant a full stable release. Downloads can be found here and the full changelog can be found here.

Noteworthy features / changes

Configuraton auto-saving and auto-reloading

MistServer used to only save when requested or upon a clean shut down. Now it will also save the configurations 1 minute after the last configuration change. The reasoning behind the original behaviour was to prevent anyone from making a change that crashes their system and having that saved to disk. This new feature still follows this reasoning, but instead of waiting for a clean shutdown it waits for a minute of stable operation. Alongside, the controller will now also auto-reload the config if it has changed on disk. We have made auto-read and auto-write the new default behaviour, should you wish to disable this you will need to add a new command-line parameter to MistController during start: --configrw off. It is also possible to only enable auto-read or auto-write separately, see --help for details.

Internal UDP API now properly detects IPv4/IPv6

Some systems have a functional IPv6 stack but no valid IPv6 localhost entry. This confused MistServer, as it tried to listen on IPv6 localhost but connect to IPv4 localhost. This change fixes problems with components that used the UDP API, like the Certbot integration, User Agent logging and trigger success logging.

Always-on mode changed internally

Changed "always on" behaviour to simulate always having a viewer rather than running on an entirely different code path. This fixes several problems with streams that were locked in a broken state, as this would now trigger a restart due to lack of data rather than staying online permanently.

Several other improvements

Several other improvements were made to MistServer, for a full overview please look at the full changelog.