Better quality, lower bandwidth - Streaming video often requires compromises between quality and cost. Built from our Technical Emmey Award-winning VOD transcoder, Bitmovin Live Encoder removes cost vs. quality tradeoff by delivering the higher quality live video streams at substantially lower bitrates, significantly reducing your cloud storage costs and CDN delivery costs - all without sacrificing video quality.

Reduce total streaming costs while increasing video output quality

Bitmovin Live Encoder produces the higher perceptual quality video outputs, reducing your CDN delivery costs up to 53%
Bitmovin Live Encoder reduces your cloud storage cost up to 41% for live clipping and live-to-VOD workloads, compared to other big name live transcoding software

Increase revenue

Higher quality outputs at lower bitrates means that you can reach more subscribers on more playback devices, even on bandwidth-constrained networks
Protect revenue from piracy with support for Digital Rights Management (DRM) including Apple FairPlay Streaming, Google Widevine, Microsoft PlayReady, and others), and pre-integration with a dozen industry-leading multi-DRM vendors
Generate new advertising revenue with native support for targeted Ad Replacement / Dynamic Ad Insertion with pre-integrated Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) and Server-Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) solutions

Retain and Grow Subscribers

Deliver the highest qualify premium tier content available to more viewers at lower bitrates optimized to deliver the highest perceptual video quality using the most efficient video codec for different playback device types
Stream content and video resolution up to 4K
Portrait mode is also supported for mobile devices.

Improve Operational Efficiency

Pay only for what you actually use - Bitmovin LIve Encoder's leading quickly spins up when you need it so you never have to worry about peaks and valleys in usage or costly idle encoder instances
Deploy Bitmovin Live Encoder as a fully-managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or as software running on compute instances in your own Azure tenant.
Bitmovin LIve Encoder's simple UI makes it easy for anyone to configure and transcode content, while the full API lets you automate your video pipeline with complete control over every aspect of your video workload

Industries that use Bitmovin Live Encoder:

- OTT video streaming platforms
- eLearning and online education
- Online health and fitness classes
- Sports clubs, leagues, and federations
- Esports
- Music and cultural events
- News & Digital Publishing organizations
- Internal corporate communications
- Public sector and public safety agencies
- Houses of Worship
- Ecommerce

- Streaming music & podcasting services

- Social Media Platforms

- +More

If you also want to ensure the highest quality, reliable video playback experience, check out Bitmovin Encoder & Playback - Enterprise, which combines Bitmovin Player, Bitmovin Analytics, and Bitmovin Live Encoder on Microsoft Azure.

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