LiveOS provides a software‑only live‑media production platform that virtualizes traditional control‑room hardware—switchers, routers, graphics, and automation—as modular applications running on commodity servers over SMPTE 2110/IP networks. The web‑based interface and multi‑protocol support (SMPTE 2110, NDI, SRT, AES67, etc.) enable local, remote, and cloud‑based productions, reducing capital costs and allowing rapid spin‑up of broadcast, sports, and event workflows.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional live‑media production relies on dedicated, rack‑mounted hardware (switchers, routers, graphics servers, OB trucks) that is costly, inflexible, and tied to a physical location, making remote or decentralized workflows difficult and expensive to scale.
Solution
LiveOS is a software‑only production platform that virtualizes the functions of control rooms and OB trucks as modular applications running on commodity IT servers connected via a SMPTE 2110 video‑over‑IP network. By abstracting hardware into software, the system supports local, remote, and fully decentralized productions for news, sports, entertainment, events, and ingest/MCR workflows. Operators use a web‑based UI or programmable panels to control video switching, graphics, playout, recording, and automation, while the underlying network handles uncompressed video, audio, and ancillary data over IP transports such as SMPTE 2110, NDI, SRT, and AES67. The platform enables rapid spin‑up of productions, shared compute resources across multiple studios, and automated scheduling, delivering lower capital expenditure, reduced power and cooling needs, and the ability to produce from anywhere.
Target Audience
Primary customers are broadcast networks, newsrooms, sports and event producers, and MCR/ingest facilities that need scalable, cost‑effective live‑production infrastructure, as well as remote‑production teams and OTT providers seeking IP‑based workflows.
Features
- Modular software modules that replace traditional hardware (switchers, routers, graphics engines, cam‑control) and run on COTS servers in a SMPTE 2110/IP environment.
- Web‑based control interface with touch‑screen support and optional programmable hardware panels for real‑time operation.
- Multi‑protocol support: SMPTE 2110, SDI, NDI, SRT, CDI, AES67, DANTE, HDMI, enabling seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
- LiveOS Production Suites (switcher, playlist, recorder, graphics, cam control, automation, scheduling) delivered as software applications.
- LiveOS Infrastructure Suite for license, user, asset, and resource management, orchestration, and database services.
- LiveConnect Switch & SDN: IP switches with clean video/audio transport, automated configuration, in‑band management, security layer, and per‑port telemetry.
- Remote production capability via dark‑fiber or internet (SRT) with browser‑based intercom and synchronized multi‑user control.
- Private‑cloud sharing model allowing multiple productions to run concurrently on the same hardware, with fast spin‑up (< 1 min) and automated deployment scripts.