2024: A Year of Innovation for Phenix (What You Can Try in 2025)

2024 was a year of significant growth in the real-time streaming market, and Phenix has worked diligently to continue delivering innovative and industry-first features. In terms of both direct Phenix capabilities and partner integrations, we have a lot to share spanning the entire video workflow!

New Features

Publishing & Ingest

• SRT Ingest - Extend your contribution capabilities with Phenix's support for Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol. As SRT gains traction among broadcasters seeking high-reliability IP video transport, you can now use SRT to contribute video to Phenix in both caller and listener modes. Take advantage of SRT's ability to deliver high-quality, low-latency video over unpredictable networks, ensuring a robust and resilient ingest process for your live streaming content.

• WHIP Ingest - Simplify your contribution workflow with Phenix's native support for the WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol (WHIP). As WHIP gains widespread adoption across encoder vendors and production systems, you can now easily integrate your WHIP-enabled encoders with the Phenix platform. Take advantage of WebRTC's low-latency capabilities without the need for additional protocol conversion, ensuring a seamless and efficient ingest process.

• H.264 (AVC) High Profile Support - Expand your ingest options with Phenix's support for H.264 High Profile. This enhancement provides increased flexibility when publishing content to Phenix, whether you're using our native mobile SDKs or contributing feeds via 3rd party encoders using RTMP or SRT. Seamlessly integrate your existing video sources without the need for modifications, simplifying your workflow and ensuring compatibility across a wide range of devices.

• Dynamic Latency - Intelligently adapt latency when publishing based on real-time network conditions. By dynamically adjusting end-to-end latency from under 500ms up to 2 seconds when needed, Dynamic Latency maintains optimal video quality and uninterrupted playback, even in challenging mobile environments. This powerful new capability is ideal for user-generated content applications where network performance is highly variable. With Dynamic Latency, Phenix continues to set the standard for reliable, low-latency live video streaming.

• Enhanced VOD Recording - Intelligently handle network disruptions of up to 30 seconds, ensuring the integrity and quality of your VOD assets without interruptions. This reliable solution takes the stress out of creating on-demand content from live streams, allowing you to focus on delivering exceptional viewer experiences.

Platform Features

• Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) - As the first to market with real-time SSAI capabilities, Phenix continues to lead the industry in monetization solutions for low-latency, interactive streaming at scale. Phenix Real-Time SSAI (RT-SSAI) enables customers to monetize their live streams through personalized ad insertion without compromising the ultra-low latency viewing experience. Compatible with standard VAST endpoints and SCTE markers embedded in the source stream, Phenix RT-SSAI adds zero additional latency, ensuring seamless ad integration while maintaining sub-500ms latency.

  Phenix has partnered with industry leaders Google Ad Manager (GAM) and SpringServe to provide certified, best-in-class SSAI solutions. These partnerships guarantee robust functionality and reliability for customers looking to optimize their real-time ad revenue streams.

• Red Button Ad Insertion - Streamline your ad insertion workflow with Phenix's user-friendly web interface for manually inserting SCTE ad markers. Compatible with Videon encoders out of the box, this flexible tool can be easily adapted to work with any encoder that supports API-based marker insertion. Ideal for customers who don't have their own insertion system, Red Button Ad Insertion simplifies the process of adding targeted ads to your live streams.

• Fork Channel to Lower Bitrate - The Fork Channel to Lower Bitrate feature enables you to simultaneously stream your live content at multiple quality levels from a single source, opening up new opportunities to create tiered subscription plans, comply with licensing terms, and optimize your content delivery. With this functionality, you can easily provide your paid subscribers with high-definition streaming while offering free viewers a standard quality experience, all while recording a high-quality version for VOD.

• Video & Data Synchronization - Align video streams with external data feeds, such as betting odds or gamification elements, by dynamically adjusting video latency. This powerful feature ensures a synchronized user experience, enabling viewers to engage with interactive content that relies on precise timing between video and data. Perfect for enhancing live sports betting, gaming, and other data-driven streaming applications.

• Timecodes - Ensure regulatory compliance and enable precise synchronization between video and client-side events with Phenix's end-to-end timecode support. Publishers can send video with H264 SEI timecodes, which Phenix preserves and makes available to clients. This allows for accurate measurement of end-to-end latency, monitoring of audience drift, and triggering UI updates at specific video frames. A must-have for iGaming platforms and other latency-sensitive applications.

• AI Tooling - Elevate your live video content with Phenix's AI Tooling, powered by the WebRTC HTTP-Based Session Negotiation Protocol (WHSNP). Programmatically access your streams and integrate with cutting-edge AI engines for real-time enhancements. Deliver multilingual captions using Deepgram's transcription technology and Google Translate, with the option to enable voice-to-voice translation for a truly global viewing experience. Transform your live streams into engaging, inclusive experiences that captivate audiences worldwide.

Authentication

• Phenix Access Manager (PAM) - Phenix Access Manager (PAM) is an enterprise access control service that enables organizations to securely manage and delegate EdgeAuth token creation capabilities. Through its intuitive interface, administrators can create user accounts with fine-grained permissions, controlling exactly which channels and rooms users can access, what token parameters they can modify, and which features they can enable. PAM simplifies complex token management workflows by allowing teams to safely distribute token creation abilities while maintaining strict control over resource access and security parameters, making it ideal for organizations that need to balance operational flexibility with robust security controls.

Playback

• Multi-View Applications - An interactive live event streaming solution that enables viewers to dynamically select from up to 5 simultaneous camera angles during sports, concerts, and entertainment events, leveraging a partnership with 24i's BackStage product and offering flexible white label and customizable integration options to enhance viewer engagement through real-time perspective switching.

• Multi-Stream Monitoring Dashboard - The Phenix Multi-Stream Monitoring Dashboard is a powerful real-time video streaming management tool designed for professionals who need to monitor and analyze multiple video channels simultaneously. With an intuitive interface that allows dynamic arrangement of video previews, live status indicators, and shareable dashboard URLs, this solution provides a comprehensive view of complex video streaming environments. Users can easily authenticate, organize channels, and gain instant insights into their streaming landscape.

• Real-Time QOS Statistics - An integrated video player tool that provides real-time network performance analytics, displaying Phenix and WebRTC streaming metrics directly within the video viewing experience, with dynamic charting and visual alerts for network conditions and stream quality.

New Partner Integrations

• Videon - Publish seamlessly and easily from Videon encoders to the Phenix platform via WHIP, RTMP or SRT. Phenix also now supports SSAI driven by SCTE markers generated on Videon devices, greatly simplifying ad workflows. See Phenix docs for more information.

• Teradek - Contribute streams from Teradek Prism encoders or the Teradek Core cloud orchestration platform to Phenix via WHIP or RTMP.

• BitFire - Enables BitFire Inferno’s centralized cloud control solution including ultra-low latency production, cloud switching, and IP transport to seamlessly contribute streams directly into the Phenix platform.

• Sienna - Leverage Sienna’s robust NDI infrastructure for live media workflows, and seamlessly publish to Phenix via WHIP.

• Grabyo - Utilize Grabyo’s powerful and flexible browser based cloud video production platform in conjunction with Phenix real-time streaming distribution. Read more about how to leverage the best of Grabyo and Phenix in our documentation.

• QuickLink - Support for QuickLink’s StudioPro and StudioPro Cloud production systems to contribute streams to Phenix. This enables ultra-low latency video production on-site or in the cloud with synchronized inputs, remote guest integration, an unlimited number of capture devices, and sub-second synchronized distribution to global audiences.

• Amagi - Enables Amagi customers to output content from its CLOUDPORT automated scheduling and playout system into Phenix for next generation FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) and live events with real-time streaming. Further integration between Amagi’s Ad Tech platform and Phenix’s real-time SSAI capabilities facilitates dynamic and personalized ads while maintaining real-time playback.

• SpringServe - Phenix’s Real-Time SSAI solution now fully supports SpringServe’s Ad Server for a robust technical solution that provides high-quality data with accurate ad delivery and reporting to help maximize performance and yields.

• Google Ad Manager (GAM) - Phenix’s Real-Time SSAI solution also fully supports GAM, enabling customers to achieve the most value for every ad impression and manage their entire ad ecosystem from GAM’s easy-to-use integrated platform. 

• Singular Live - Generate overlays on top of any Phenix stream. Build custom ad experiences including L-Bar user interface. More information can be found in our documentation. 

• Datazoom - Easily ingest real-time video statistics into Datazoom and the data analysis platform of your choice.

• Bitmovin - Ready to go plugin for the Bitmovin Web Player X that enables real-time video viewing within the Bitmovin player. More information can be found in our documentation and on Bitmovin’s Community page.

• Amino H200 STB - Real-time streaming support on Amino’s H200 set top box in high quality in conjunction with Amino’s Orchestrate management platform for in-venue streaming at sports events and entertainment venues, retail betting shops, and casinos.