Transport Characteristics
Kraken can encode, transcode, and route media content from raw and network inputs to network outputs.
While MPEG 2 Transport Streams are the primary protocol supported by the Kraken Media pipeline, other formats and protocols are supported to provide Kraken users with the flexibility to convert formats between Kraken Input and Kraken Output.
Kraken Inputs support multiple types of video sources on both raw and network sources. Kraken Outputs supports multiple types of network destinations. These Kraken Inputs and Outputs are listed below:
Kraken Network Inputs:
TS over UDP, SRT, TCP
RTSP
RAW Motion JPEG
MJPEG over HTTP
RTMP
Kraken Raw Inputs:
SDI
SMPTE ST2110
GigE
NDI
Analog Capture
Kraken Outputs:
TS over UDP, SRT, TCP
RTMP
RTSP - PUSH
RTSP - PULL
TS Segment Archive
HLS
When transcoding, Kraken will de-interlace the source content producing a progressive output stream.
Note
The presence of Referenced B-Frames, streams without a "low-delay" bit set in the stream, and/or streams where the audio and video are not interleaved can cause an increase in latency.