Castr
Live video streaming platform
Castr is a live video streaming platform that covers the broadcast chain from ingest through delivery, recording, hosting, monetization, and OTT. It is designed to replace a multi-vendor stack with a single service, supporting RTMP and SRT encoders as well as HLS, RTMP, RTSP, and SRT pull sources.
Core products include live streaming with multi-CDN delivery across Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront, multistreaming to up to 30 destinations, cloud production with browser-based switching and overlays, live transcoding with adaptive bitrate and watermarking, video hosting with branded players, 24/7 playout scheduling, monetization via pay-per-view, subscriptions, and advertising, white-label OTT apps, and a REST Video API with webhooks. Security controls include DRM, password protection, geo and domain restrictions, and encrypted delivery.
Castr serves production agencies, media and OTT operators, organizations, and rights holders. The core products ship together on a single account, with some capabilities scoped by plan or sold separately. A 7-day Starter trial is available without a credit card, and published plans include monthly delivery bandwidth allowances with custom volume available.
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