Get the feed from the field to your receiver, healthy.
LiveBridge connects field cameras to your newsroom or broadcast centre through any firewall. We steady the feed for professional receivers and show you the health of every leg. There's no gateway for you to run.
"Connected" doesn't mean the feed is fit for air.
Nobody can open a port
Corporate firewalls, hotels and venues block inbound connections. Crews on 5G sit behind carrier NAT, and IPs change.
The internet makes feeds bursty
Packets arrive unevenly, but a professional receiver expects a steady rate and regular timing.
Receivers fail to lock
A strict IRD may need constant-rate output, null padding and correct PCR timing before it locks reliably.
Nobody can see where it breaks
Is it the source, the internet, the cloud or the last hop? Most teams have one green light and a lot of guessing.
Connect, condition, verify, deliver.
Every connection starts on your side and goes out to us. Nothing listens on your network from the internet.
Outbound only
The camera pushes and your studio pulls, both connecting out to our regional relays. If UDP is blocked, there's a fallback on TCP 443. Set-up links and QR codes mean nobody types URLs in the field.
A steady feed for strict receivers
On the Pro plan, an edge receiver at your site turns a bursty internet feed into a constant-rate, PCR-paced stream on the last clean hop to your IRD.
Health per leg
Loss, round-trip time, retransmits, bitrate, PCR and continuity for each leg. You also get alarms, session history and an evidence report after every event.
The format you need
SRT to any decoder, vMix or edit suite, or UDP/RTP straight to the IRD on your own network. The video is passed through, never re-encoded.
Teams that move live video every day and don't want to run the infrastructure.
Simple pricing per bridge.
A bridge is one live source to one destination. Prices are in USD.
Monitor
- Managed, encrypted SRT bridge
- Set-up links and QR codes
- Health per leg, with alarms
- 7-day history
- Email support
Pro
- Everything in Monitor
- Edge receiver with professional IRD output (constant rate, null padding, PCR pacing)
- UDP/RTP on your own network
- Evidence report per event, 30-day history
- Backup region, priority support
Event day
- For sports, press conferences and one-off events
- Monitor $25 or Pro $45 per day
- Extra destination +$5 a day
Questions engineers ask first.
What does our IT team need to allow?
Only outbound traffic: UDP 8890 to our relay for SRT. If UDP is blocked, TCP 443 works as a fallback. Nothing inbound is opened at either end. If a security service such as Zscaler sits in the path, we send your IT team a one-line bypass request.
Which cameras and encoders work?
Anything that sends SRT in caller mode with MPEG-TS: hardware encoders, vMix, OBS, and phone apps such as Larix Broadcaster. We recommend H.264 or HEVC at a constant bitrate, a 1–2 second GOP and no B-frames.
What latency should we expect?
It depends on the network path and the SRT buffer, which we set to 3–4 times the round-trip time. In our tests within one region, delay was about 1.5 s over SRT and about 0.6 s in the browser preview. Delay across continents is higher. We measure your path during the pilot.
Do we need the edge receiver?
Only for the Pro plan, when you feed a professional IRD over UDP/RTP. If you pull SRT straight into a decoder, vMix or an edit suite, you don't need anything at your site. The edge receiver runs on your own PC or VM, or on a mini PC we supply at cost.
Is the stream secure?
Every bridge uses AES-encrypted SRT with its own logins and passphrases, and each client sees only its own bridges. Our relays only accept the streaming ports.
Do you re-encode the video?
No. The video passes through untouched. Conditioning on the Pro plan changes only the transport: timing, rate and padding.
Tell us about your feeds.
Ask about a free 30-day pilot, or ask us anything. We reply within one working day.
- Emailhello@livebridge.video
- PilotWe set up your first bridge with you and test it on your real network before you go live.