Media Infrastructure

Infrastructure for running dozens of live video streams continuously

Built the process management and encoding infrastructure behind a platform running multiple concurrent live video streams around the clock.

Client
An enterprise video streaming infrastructure project
Timeline
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The challenge

Running one live stream reliably is straightforward. Running many streams simultaneously, continuously, without one crashed process taking others down with it or exhausting server resources, is a different problem.

Our approach

We focused on process isolation and recovery: each stream needed to be its own supervised process that could fail and restart independently, and we needed to know exactly how much CPU/GPU headroom each concurrent encode actually consumed.

The solution

We built the streaming workflows on NestJS and FFmpeg, with PM2 managing and supervising each stream's encoding process independently, and evaluated GPU/NVENC hardware acceleration to bring down the resource cost of running many simultaneous encodes.

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