Stream

Broadcast live to whoever you choose, and keep the replay.

Connect your encoder: the live goes out on your own site, inside your channel or behind a password. Viewers ask their questions in the chat, you watch the counter in real time, and when it ends the replay is already filed in Mediasbox.

Videas Stream interface showing a live broadcast with chat and viewer count

How do you broadcast an event live?

1. Connect your encoder
Paste the server URL and stream key Videas gives you into OBS, vMix or any RTMP-compatible software, then hit start. The live goes out a few seconds later, with no server to set up and no port to open.
2. Choose who watches
Embed the player in your site, inside your channel or on an event page. Leave the broadcast public, set a password, or restrict it to authenticated accounts. The CDN absorbs the load as viewers arrive.
3. Keep the replay
During the broadcast you follow the number of people connected. When it ends, the recording lands in your media library and the full statistics — peak audience, average watch time, engagement — appear in Videas Analytics.

Stream workflow: connect encoder, broadcast live, analyze results

The live, then the replay, in one place

Videas takes your RTMP stream and delivers it through its CDN, on your own site, inside your channel or on an event page. The chat opens beside the player, the viewer counter runs in real time, and you decide who gets in: private link, password, or authenticated accounts. When the live ends, the recording is filed in Mediasbox — ready to subtitle, publish or sell.

Videas live broadcast interface with real-time viewer count and stream status

The stream goes out, the CDN takes the load

Videas receives your RTMP stream, transcodes it into several qualities and delivers it through a CDN. The bitrate adapts to every connection, from 4G mobile to fibre. Scaling happens on its own, from ten viewers to several thousand, with no setting to change and no interruption during the event.

Who gets to watch, and from where

You decide who gets into your live: a private link, a password, or an authenticated channel with user accounts and company SSO. Playback can also be limited to your own domains. The player sets no advertising cookie and no third-party tracker, and the data stays hosted in France, with no transfer outside the European Union.

Stream access control settings with privacy options and domain restriction

Live chat panel with viewer messages alongside the video stream

The chat, right beside the player

Turn on the chat so your audience can react and ask questions during the broadcast. Your moderators follow the messages in real time and surface what deserves an answer on air. The live stops being a one-way speech and becomes a conversation, without anyone leaving the page.

Live streaming under real conditions

Hundredsof employees on the same live, every week
One live for a whole network
The chief executive addresses his teams live every week from the group intranet: everyone signs in with their company credentials and asks questions in the chat.
Read the Crédit Agricole case study

What you gain by hosting the live yourself

Nothing to set up beforehand

No delivery server to install, no infrastructure to size the day before. You plug in the encoder you already use and Videas takes over: stream ingest, transcoding, delivery and scaling.

Ten or ten thousand, same playback

The CDN handles audience peaks with no action from you. Quality is set by each viewer's own connection, wherever they are, and playback starts the same way for the first person connected and for the last.

Your viewers are not tracked

Your live streams are hosted in France, with no data transfer outside the European Union. No advertising cookie, no third-party tracker, nothing to add to your consent banner. An external DPO oversees data protection.

The live does not die at the end

Every broadcast is recorded and joins your media library. You subtitle it with Scribe, file it away, and republish it as on-demand training, as paid content on a channel or as a video on a sales page.

What comes with every live

The peak, and what is left after

Videas Analytics counts concurrent viewers during the broadcast, then average watch time, completion rate and replay audience — in the same dashboard as the rest of your videos.

A viewing-time donut split into four bands, from under 15 minutes to over an hour.

A player with your logo, no ads

The live plays in the Videas player, in your colours and with your logo, with no advertising and no suggested video at the end. Your brand stays front and centre from the first second of the live to the last of the replay.

A color wheel and eyedropper over a progress bar tinted yellow.

On desktop, tablet and mobile

Your viewers watch without installing anything: the player is responsive and adapts to the screen size as well as to the block that holds it in your page.

The same live stream, LIVE badge included, at three screen sizes.

The replay, with nothing to do

At the end of every broadcast, the recording is dropped into your Mediasbox library. Add subtitles with Scribe, file it in a collection and publish it on your channel, all from the same interface.

A finished video, with its circular arrow and replay button.

What Stream does not do

Videas carries your stream, it does not make the picture: the camera, the vision mixer, the lower thirds and the branding stay with you, in OBS, vMix or the encoder you already use. A live is not a video call either — a few seconds separate the room from your viewers' screens, and they answer in the chat, not out loud. And the stream goes to your own Videas pages, your channel or your site: Videas does not relay it anywhere else.

How much does a live cost?

€0
per event, whatever the audience size
€0.02
per gigabyte delivered, live and replay
1 TB
of delivery free every month

There is no price per event, no viewer tier and no subscription, and the chat is included. What gets counted is bandwidth: what your viewers receive during the live, then on the replay, at €0.02 per gigabyte beyond the free terabyte each month — a heavily watched live therefore costs more than a quiet one. The stored replay adds €0.20 per hour per month. You receive €5 of credits on sign-up, then €5 every month.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I start a live with Videas Stream?

Videas gives you a server URL and a stream key. You paste them into your encoder — OBS, vMix, Wirecast or any RTMP-compatible software — and press start. The live goes out a few seconds later on the page you chose, with no server to install and no special network setup.

Can I restrict access to my live?

Yes, in three ways. A private link you only send to the people concerned. A password, asked for before playback starts. Or an authenticated channel where every viewer has an account — through your company SSO if you have one. You can also limit playback to your own domains.

Is the live available as a replay?

Yes, with nothing to do. As soon as the broadcast ends, the recording joins your Videas media library like any other video: you can subtitle it, file it in a collection, publish it on your channel or sell it. Nothing expires and nothing is deleted while you keep the video.

Can I customize the live player?

Yes. A live uses the same player as your on-demand videos: your logo, your colours, your waiting thumbnail. No advertising appears in it, no suggested videos at the end, and no third-party tracker is dropped on your viewers. The player goes into your site through an embed code.

What is the latency of a Videas live?

Count a few seconds between what your camera films and what your viewers see. That is short enough to run a chat and answer questions during the broadcast, but it is not a video call: nobody speaks back from the audience. The exact figure depends on your encoder and on each connection.

Is there a limit on concurrent viewers?

There is no tier to buy and no quota to declare before the event. The stream is delivered by a CDN that scales on its own: ten viewers or ten thousand, playback starts the same way. And the live itself is not charged per viewer, with no plan to take out before you open the broadcast.

Can I embed the live on my website?

Yes. You copy an embed code — iframe or script — and paste it into a page of your site, an article or your CMS. The player takes the width of the block that holds it and adapts to mobile. Your viewers install nothing and create no account, unless you closed the access yourself.

Does Videas Stream provide live analytics?

During the broadcast you see how many viewers are connected at any moment. After the event you get the same statistics as for your other videos: peak audience, average watch time, completion rate and replay audience. All of it in Videas Analytics, with no third-party measurement tool to plug in.

Is Videas Stream GDPR compliant?

The stream, the recording and the statistics stay on servers located in France, with no transfer outside the European Union. The player sets no advertising cookie and no third-party tracker: you have nothing to add to your consent banner for a live. An external DPO oversees data protection.

Can I run live and on-demand on the same platform?

Yes, it is the same account and the same library. A live becomes an on-demand video the moment it ends, in the same catalogue as the rest of your content. So you can sell one subscription that opens both the lives and the replays, or keep some public and others reserved.