Eyevinn Channel Engine
Open-source FAST channel engine: loop VOD into a 24/7 live HLS channel.
Eyevinn Channel Engine is an open source FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV) and playlist linear channel engine. Using VOD2Live technology it turns already-transcoded HLS video-on-demand assets into a continuous 24/7 live HLS channel, without re-encoding and without an always-running encoder, so a whole linear channel costs little more than serving the underlying VOD.
Deployed from the NetActuate marketplace it boots ready to watch: it loops a small bundled demo VOD into a live channel out of the box, served from the instance itself with no external dependencies. Point an HLS player at http://<instance-ip>:8000/channels/loop/master.m3u8 to watch, or open the multiview UI on port 8001. To run your own content, seed a custom VOD URL (the master.m3u8 of any HLS VOD) and the engine loops that instead.
This appliance wraps the OFFICIAL upstream Eyevinn FAST Channel Engine Docker image (eyevinntechnology/fast-engine, digest-pinned) on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The Channel Engine is developed by Eyevinn Technology (https://eyevinn.se) and released under the Apache-2.0 license; source at https://github.com/Eyevinn/channel-engine. Eyevinn Technology is not affiliated with or endorsed by NetActuate; NetActuate packages the unmodified upstream release.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Eyevinn Channel Engine on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Eyevinn Channel Engine on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Eyevinn Channel Engine?
Eyevinn Channel Engine is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can Eyevinn Channel Engine run?
Eyevinn Channel Engine can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Eyevinn Channel Engine?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its vendor, Open Source.
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