Can you build a streaming backend into our product?

Yes. We can build ingest, transcoding and HLS delivery around your own accounts and billing, reusing what we built for zap.stream where it fits.

Do you work with recorded video as well as live?

Yes. Route96 processes uploaded video: compression, thumbnails, metadata extraction and range requests for playback.

Can we run it on our own servers?

Yes. zap-stream-core is designed to be self-hosted with Docker Compose, with or without a public IP.

VIDEO · STREAMING

Live streaming and video platform development

RTMP and SRT ingest, real-time transcoding, HLS delivery and the billing around them. We built and run zap.stream, a live streaming platform with Lightning payments.

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STRATUM 01HOW WE WORK

zap.stream runs on zap-stream-core, a Rust server we wrote that takes RTMP or SRT, transcodes with FFmpeg into several renditions, segments to HLS and serves the result. It is packaged with Docker Compose so other operators run their own copies, and those servers can register with zap.stream as ingest points.

We call FFmpeg through our own Rust bindings, ffmpeg-rs-raw, rather than shelling out to the command line, which keeps memory, latency and error handling under our control. The same bindings power Route96, which stores uploads by hash, compresses images and video, makes thumbnails and blurhashes, and answers range requests for playback.

Video turns up elsewhere in our work too: camwall puts a Frigate NVR's cameras on a Raspberry Pi screen, and WaveShark decodes television off a DVB-T multiplex.

STRATUM 02WHAT WE BUILD

Ingest

RTMP and SRT ingest with per-user stream keys.

Transcoding

Real-time FFmpeg transcoding into several renditions, through direct bindings.

Delivery

HLS segmenting and serving, ready to put behind a CDN.

Monetisation

Per-minute billing from prepaid balances, Lightning tips and zaps.

Uploaded media

Video and image compression, thumbnails, metadata extraction and range requests.

Self-hosting

Docker Compose deploys with an admin UI and Cloudflare tunnel support.

STRATUM 03IN PRODUCTION

STREAMING · NOSTR

zap.stream: live streaming on Nostr

End-to-end Nostr live streaming: Rust backend core, React frontend, native app. Lightning zaps, NIP-96 media, real-time FFmpeg ingestion.

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Open source

zap-stream-coreThe Rust streaming server behind zap.stream.ffmpeg-rs-rawOur low-level Rust bindings to FFmpeg.route96Media server with video compression and thumbnails.camwallFull screen camera wall for Frigate NVR on a Raspberry Pi.

STRATUM 04QUESTIONS

Can you build a streaming backend into our product?: Yes. We can build ingest, transcoding and HLS delivery around your own accounts and billing, reusing what we built for zap.stream where it fits.
Do you work with recorded video as well as live?: Yes. Route96 processes uploaded video: compression, thumbnails, metadata extraction and range requests for playback.
Can we run it on our own servers?: Yes. zap-stream-core is designed to be self-hosted with Docker Compose, with or without a public IP.