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SRT IN. UDP MULTICAST OUT.

Our UDP playout software takes the signals you order from the hub — SRT, HLS or RTMP — and puts them on your local network as UDP multicast, ready for set-top boxes, hospitality TVs and any receiver that expects a classic MPEG-TS stream.

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Licensed per site by channel count. Runs on your own hardware, or on the player appliance if you would rather not run a server.
INPUTS
SRT caller, listener or rendezvous, AES-128/256
HLS HTTP(S) pull, token or signed URL
RTMP push or pull from a studio encoder
MPEG-TS unicast UDP or RTP in
OUTPUTS
UDP multicast to your LAN, IGMPv2/v3
UDP unicast to a named receiver
RTP with optional FEC
SPTS one programme per output port
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THE CONSOLE

RUNNING ON YOUR NETWORK, NOT OURS
Alteox UDP player — channel list with bitrate, FPS, uptime and channel logs
PRODUCT SCREENSHOT

Drop the UDP player screenshot at static/software/udp-player.png and it appears here automatically. Until then, the console below is rebuilt as markup.

UDP PLAYER — kvm-alteox-cc560b57ba816bd8 4 CHANNELS · 4 UDP OUTPUTS · WATCHDOG ON
CHANNEL IN BITRATE FPS SPEED UDP OUTPUT UPTIME PING
ntv.de hls 1.7 Mbps 25.00 1.00x 239.10.1.4:1234 6m 17.4 ms
das-erste srt 8.1 Mbps 50.00 1.00x 239.10.1.5:1234 4d 02h 6.1 ms
eurosport-1 srt 7.9 Mbps 50.00 1.00x 239.10.1.6:1234 4d 02h 6.3 ms
rai-1 hls 3.4 Mbps 25.00 1.00x 239.10.1.7:1234 2d 11h 21.8 ms
CHANNEL LOGS TAIL -F
[15:22:31] setting CPU affinity to core 3
[15:22:31] starting pipeline: srt://eu-west.tvheadend.io:9040 → udp://239.10.1.5:1234
[15:22:32] pipeline up (pid 153182) — monitoring resumed
[15:22:34] UDP dummy listener started to prevent buffer overruns
[das-erste] bitrate 8.1 Mbps  fps 50  speed 1.00x  drops 0
[das-erste] SRT rtt 6.1 ms  loss 0.00 %  retransmit 0
[ntv.de] HLS segment 1284 fetched in 118 ms  buffer 3.4 s
[watchdog] all 4 channels healthy

// screenshot rebuilt as markup for this page — the shipped UI is the Alteox UDP player

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WHAT IT DOES

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PER-CHANNEL PROCESS ISOLATION

Every channel runs in its own worker with CPU affinity, so one bad input cannot stall the rest of the line-up.

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WATCHDOG AND AUTO-RESTART

Input loss, stalled PTS or a dead upstream triggers a reconnect with backoff, logged and alerted.

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LIVE MONITORING

Bitrate, FPS, speed, uptime, UDP bitrate and ping per channel, in the web UI and over the REST API.

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CHANNEL PREVIEW

Confidence preview straight from the running output, so you can check the picture without a set-top box.

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BUFFER CONTROL

Configurable SRT latency, probe size and jitter buffer per channel for tight or lossy links.

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CONFIG AS DATA

Channels defined in a single file or through the API — clone a site by copying its configuration.

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REQUIREMENTS

YOUR SERVER OR OUR APPLIANCE
Platform Linux x86-64 (Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04+, RHEL 9)
Runtime Bare metal, VM or Docker
CPU 1 core per 4 pass-through channels (no transcode)
Memory 512 MB + 64 MB per channel
Network One NIC for input, one for multicast recommended
Licence Per site, by channel count — annual or monthly