How low is the latency, really?

4 to 7 seconds glass to glass with low latency enabled, over LL-HLS. For context, the 2024 Phenix Super Bowl study measured cable at 50 to 80 seconds and major streaming services between 29 and 55. Your stream reaches fans ahead of the broadcast, which is what prevents the spoiler problem. If you need sub-second for in-play betting, that is a different category of product and FastPix is not it.

Can I enforce territorial blackouts?

Not today. Playback restriction covers domain allow and deny lists and user-agent rules. There is no country, region or IP-level restriction, so in-market blackouts and territorial rights windows cannot be enforced at the platform layer. If your rights deal requires geo-enforcement, raise it with us before you build.

Do you support multi-angle or multi-camera?

No. A stream is a single feed. Multiple angles means multiple streams, switched in your own application or in production before the uplink.

How fast can I get a highlight out?

Mark a start and end timecode against the running stream and the clip is produced as its own playback ID, up to 20 minutes long, without waiting for full time. AI-scored automatic moment detection exists but is in early access rather than generally available.

What happens if the uplink drops mid-match?

The stream holds open through a reconnect window rather than ending, and a webhook fires the moment the feed goes idle so your ops team sees it immediately. This is a reconnect grace period, not redundant backup ingest. If you need a hot standby path, run a second stream and switch in your application.

Can I insert ad breaks?

SCTE-35 markers are supported on Cloud Playout linear channels, which is where scheduled break signalling belongs. They are not available on a standard live event stream.

How do I start a 24/7 channel?

Live streaming, clipping and the archive are self-serve: create a free account and you are running today. Channels are different. Cloud Playout is set up with our team so the rundown, the fixture calendar and SCTE-35 break signalling are configured around how your season actually runs. It is $99 per channel per month once live. Book a call and we will build the first rundown with you.

What does the archive cost me between seasons?

Storage is per minute stored. If the archive runs as a FAST channel it is also earning rather than sitting idle, at $99 per channel per month plus the usual per-minute delivery.

Which devices does the player reach?

Web, iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native, plus Samsung Tizen and LG webOS through the web SDK. Native Roku, Apple TV and Fire TV adapters are on the roadmap rather than shipped.

How does pricing behave when a match spikes?

Per minute on what you encode, deliver and store. There is no per-concurrent-viewer charge and no plan ceiling to breach when a fixture unexpectedly trends, which is the failure mode that turns a good match into a surprise invoice.

Do you support live and VOD on the same API?

Yes. Live streams auto-write to VOD assets on the same playback ID. Live Streaming.

What SDKs do you ship?

7 server SDKs (Node, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET), iOS/Android/Flutter/React Native client SDKs, plus the Web Player.

How do I migrate from another provider?

See FastPix vs Mux, FastPix vs Cloudflare Stream, and FastPix vs AWS Elemental.

FastPix for live sports

Video APIs for live sports: stream the match, then run the channel

Take the feed from the venue, put it in front of fans ahead of the television broadcast, cut highlights while the match is still running, and keep the archive earning as a 24/7 linear channel between fixtures. One API for all of it.

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Per-minute pricing, no seat count. $25 in signup credits, no credit card for the free tier.

LL-HLSlow latencyLive to VODsame playback ID24/7linear channels300+CDN POPs

seconds behind liveLIVE

GLASS TO GLASS, LOWER IS BETTER

FastPix LL-HLS4-7s

Verizon Fios29s

Paramount+42.8s

Cable TV50-80s

YouTube TV55.5s

Cable is not the zero point. It carries a 5 to 7 second profanity delay plus distribution hops. Comparison figures from the Phenix Super Bowl latency study, 2024.

TRUSTED BY PRODUCT TEAMS SHIPPING VIDEO AT SCALE

One platform, whistle to whistle and beyond

The live streaming pipeline: RTMP ingest to OTT delivery

A feed arrives from the venue, gets encoded and delivered over LL-HLS, is clipped while still running, archives itself to an on-demand asset, and then feeds a linear channel between fixtures. The match is three hours. The season is three hundred days. Most operations run a live vendor for match day and nothing at all for the rest of the year. Every stage below is one API call on the same platform.

IngestRTMP · RTMPS · SRT from the venue

EncodePer-title ABR 240p to 4K

DeliverLL-HLS multi-CDN

ClipBy timecode while live

ArchiveLive to VOD same playback ID

Channel24/7 FAST between fixtures

AnalyzeConcurrents QoE · drop-off

Match day

Low latency live streaming with LL-HLS

Enough to stay ahead of the TV feed, which is the comparison fans actually make. Nobody watching at home has a stopwatch. They have a group chat. The failure that matters is learning the score from a notification before seeing it, and that happens when your stream sits behind the broadcast rather than ahead of it.

With lowLatency: true FastPix delivers 4 to 7 seconds glass to glass over LL-HLS. Cable runs 50 to 80. Your stream gets there first.

RTMP and RTMPS ingest from the venue encoder, with a reconnect window that rides out a dropped uplink rather than ending the stream.
Adaptive down to 240p, because a stadium crowd on congested mobile and a living room on fibre are the same broadcast.
The recording writes itself. A live stream archives to a VOD asset on the same playback ID, so the replay lives at the match URL the moment the whistle goes.

See how it works

stream · derby-round-14ON AIR

RTMPSVenue ingestprimary uplink · 1080p50Healthy

LL-HLSDeliverymulti-CDN · 4-7s glass to glassGA

ABRLadder1080p · 720p · 480p · 360p · 240pGA

VODArchivesame playback ID · automaticGA

DRMWidevine · FairPlay · PlayReadyadd-onGA

Clips and highlights

Live stream clipping and instant highlights

Cut the goal while the match is still running. The window for a social clip closes in minutes, so mark a start and end timecode against the live stream and get back a shareable asset without waiting for the final whistle or exporting to an edit suite.

Clip during the stream, up to 20 minutes per clip, published as its own playback ID.
Chapters and subtitles on the archive. Once the match becomes a VOD asset it takes the same processing as any upload, so the full replay arrives segmented and captioned.
AI-scored clipping is in early access. Automatic moment detection is on a waitlist rather than a switch you can flip today.

One thing worth knowing: highlight speed is often limited by rights rather than technology. Some competitions embargo clips for hours after full time. Extraction is instant; publication is your rights holder's call.

See how it works

clips · derby-round-14

23:14Opening goal00:42 · published to socialGA

41:02Penalty appeal01:15 · pending reviewGA

68:30Equaliser00:38 · publishedGA

AUTOAI moment detectionscored, ranked, auto-cutWaitlist

Between fixtures

24/7 live stream channels with cloud playout

Your archive should be an asset for 300 days a year, not a storage bill. Sixty matches a season is about 180 hours of live video. For the other 8,580 hours the audience has nothing to open and the archive earns nothing. Cloud Playout schedules that library into an always-on channel: classic matches, condensed games, press conferences, academy footage, running on a real rundown rather than a looping playlist.

Program by time slot. Build a weekly grid, drop a live fixture into it, and the channel cuts to the match and back to schedule automatically.
SCTE-35 ad markers on linear channels, so breaks signal properly to your ad stack.
Simulcast the channel out to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or any RTMP endpoint where your fans already are.
$99 per channel per month, on the same platform and the same library as the live stream.

Channels are set up with our team rather than spun up from the dashboard, so the first one gets configured around your fixture calendar and your ad stack. Live streaming, clipping and the archive are all self-serve from a free account today.

Plan your channel with us Start with live, free

channel-01 · rundownLIVE