Streaming Media Monitoring

Monitor audio or video stream performance, availability, and errors to guarantee consistent, trouble-free playback for your users.

Identify Streaming Errors

Ensure Uninterrupted Audio and Video Streaming

Guarantee your audience a smooth streaming experience. With Dotcom-Monitor, actively monitor media streams, identify errors, and gather essential metrics for enhanced performance.

Comprehensive Streaming Media Monitoring

Streaming Video Monitoring: Our agent connects, buffers, plays a stream for 30 seconds, checks for errors, and gathers metrics.

Streaming Audio Monitoring: Set up alerts for different streams or assets and monitor globally. Get notifications via email, text, phone, and more.

Supported Formats: Our solution supports hundreds of formats and video codecs, including Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Flash-based videos, and more.

Key Features

Key Streaming Media Monitoring Features

Elevate your streaming service by monitoring metrics tailored for optimal playback.

Monitor Connection Time

Receive alerts about connection timeouts.

Track Frame Rate

Ensure image display rates prevent flickering or errors.

Check On Buffering Time

Set thresholds and alerts to maintain user engagement.

Calculate Average Bytes Per Second

Monitor the quality of streaming media.

Achieve Flawless Media Streaming with Dotcom-Monitor

Don’t leave your users spinning! Our streaming media monitoring solution supports hundreds of formats and video codecs, including Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Flash-based videos, and more.

Streaming Media Monitoring for Modern Platforms

Harness the power of Dotcom-Monitor's tools to ensure your top performance for your streaming platform. From video to audio, we help guarantee that your streams are uninterrupted and of the highest quality.

Supported Media Stream Monitoring Codecs and File Formats

Media Stream Monitoring Codecs

MEDIA STREAM MONITORING CODECS*
D…..	= Decoding supported
.E….	= Encoding supported
..V…	= Video codec
..A…	= Audio codec
..S…	= Subtitle codec
…S..	= Supports draw_horiz_band
….D.	= Supports direct rendering method 1
…..T	= Supports weird frame truncation


D V D	4xm	4X Movie
D V D	8bps	QuickTime 8BPS video
D A D	8svx_exp	8SVX exponential
D A D	8svx_fib	8SVX fibonacci
EV	a64multi	Multicolor charset for Commodore 64
EV	a64multi5	Multicolor charset Commodore 64, ext w/ 5th color (colram)
DEA D	aac	Advanced Audio Coding
D A D	aac_latm	AAC LATM (Advanced Aud io Code c L ATM syntax)
D V D	aasc	Autodesk RLE
DEA D	ac3	ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
EA	ac3_fixed	ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
D A D	adpcm_4xm	ADPCM 4X Movie
DEA D	adpcm_adx	SEGA CRI ADX ADPCM
D A D	adpcm_ct	ADPCM Creative Technol ogy
D A D	adpcm_ea	ADPCM Electronic Arts
D A D	adpcm_ea_maxis_xa	ADPCM Electronic Art s Maxis CD ROM XA
D A D	adpcm_ea_r1	ADPCM Electronic Arts R1
D A D	adpcm_ea_r2	ADPCM Electronic Arts R2
D A D	adpcm_ea_r3	ADPCM Electronic Arts R3
D A D	adpcm_ea_xas	ADPCM Electronic Arts XAS
D A D	adpcm_ima_amv	ADPCM IMA AMV
D A D	adpcm_ima_apc	ADPCM IMA CRYO APC
D A D	adpcm_ima_dk3	ADPCM IMA Duck DK3
D A D	adpcm_ima_dk4	ADPCM IMA Duck DK4
D A D	adpcm_ima_ea_eacs	ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts E ACS
D A D	adpcm_ima_ea_sead	ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts S EAD
D A D	adpcm_ima_iss	ADPCM IMA Funcom ISS
DEA D	adpcm_ima_qt	ADPCM IMA QuickTime
D A D	adpcm_ima_smjpeg	ADPCM IMA Loki SDL MJ PEG
DEA D	adpcm_ima_wav	ADPCM IMA WAV
D A D	adpcm_ima_ws	ADPCM IMA Westwood
DEAD	adpcm_ms	ADPCM Microsoft
D A D	adpcm_sbpro_2	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2-bit
D A D	adpcm_sbpro_3	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 2.6-b it
D A D	adpcm_sbpro_4	ADPCM Sound Blaster Pr o 4-bit
DEA D	adpcm_swf	ADPCM Shockwave Flash
D A D	adpcm_thp	ADPCM Nintendo Gamecub e THP
D A D	adpcm_xa	ADPCM CDROM XA
DEA D	adpcm_yamaha	ADPCM Yamaha
DEA D	alac	ALAC (Apple Lossless A udio Co dec )
D A D	als	MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (AL S)
D A D	amrnb	Adaptive Multi-Rate Na rrowBan d
D A D	amrwb	Adaptive Multi-Rate Wi deBand
DEV	amv	AMV Video
D V D	anm	Deluxe Paint Animation
D V D	ansi	ASCII/ANSI art
D A D	ape	Monkey’s Audio
DES	ass	Advanced SubStation Al pha sub tit le
DEV D	asv1	ASUS V1
DEV D	asv2	ASUS V2
D A D	atrac1	Atrac 1 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding)
D A D	atrac3	Atrac 3 (Adaptive TRan sform A cou stic Coding 3)
D V D	aura	Auravision AURA
D V D	aura2	Auravision Aura 2
DEV D	avrp	Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Pa cker
D V D	avs	AVS (Audio Video Stand ard) vi deo
DEV D	ayuv	Uncompressed packed MS 0.169490740740741 4
D V D	bethsoftvid	Bethesda VID video
D V D	bfi	Brute Force & Ignoranc e
D A D	binkaudio_dct	Bink Audio (DCT)
D A D	binkaudio_rdft	Bink Audio (RDFT)
D V	binkvideo	Bink video
D V D	bintext	Binary text
DEV D	bmp	BMP image
D A D	bmv_audio	Discworld II BMV audio
D V	bmv_video	Discworld II BMV video
D V D	c93	Interplay C93
D V D	camstudio	CamStudio
D V D	cavs	Chinese AVS video (AVS 1-P2, J iZh un profile)
D V D	cdgraphics	CD Graphics video
D V D	cdxl	Commodore CDXL video
D V D	cinepak	Cinepak
DEV D	cljr	Cirrus Logic AccuPak
D A D	cook	COOK
D V D	cyuv	Creative YUV (CYUV)
DEA D	dca	DCA (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
D V D	dfa	Chronomaster DFA
D V	dirac	BBC Dirac VC-2
DEV D	dnxhd	VC3/DNxHD
DEV	dpx	DPX image
D A D	dsicinaudio	Delphine Software International CIN audio
D V D	dsicinvideo	Delphine Software International CIN video
DES	dvbsub	DVB subtitles
DES	dvdsub	DVD subtitles
DEV D	dvvideo	DV (Digital Video)
D V D	dxtory	Dxtory
DEA D	eac3	ATSC A/52 E-AC-3
D V D	eacmv	Electronic Arts CMV video
D V D	eamad	Electronic Arts Madcow Video
D V D	eatgq	Electronic Arts TGQ video
D V	eatgv	Electronic Arts TGV video
D V D	eatqi	Electronic Arts TQI Video
D V D	escape124	Escape 124
D V D	escape130	Escape 130
DEV D	ffv1	FFmpeg video codec #1
DEVSD	ffvhuff	Huffyuv FFmpeg variant
DEA D	flac	FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
D V D	flic	Autodesk Animator Flic video
DEVSD	flv	Flash Video (FLV) / Sorenson Spark / Sorenson H.263
D V D	fraps	Fraps
D V D	frwu	Forward Uncompressed
DEA D	g722	G.722 ADPCM
DEA	g723_1	G.723.1
DEA D	g726	G.726 ADPCM
D A D	g729	G.729
DEV D	gif	GIF (Graphics Interchange Format )
D A D	gsm	GSM
D A D	gsm_ms	GSM Microsoft variant
DEV D	h261	H.261
DEVSDT	h263	H.263 / H.263-1996
D VSD	h263i	Intel H.263
EV	h263p	H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
D V D	h264	H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 A VC / MPEG- 4 part 10
DEVSD	huffyuv	Huffyuv / HuffYUV
D V D	idcinvideo	id Quake II CIN video
D V D	idf	iCEDraw text
D V D	iff_byterun1	IFF ByteRun1
D V D	iff_ilbm	IFF ILBM
D A D	imc	IMC (Intel Music Coder)
D V D	indeo2	Intel Indeo 2
D V	indeo3	Intel Indeo 3
D V	indeo4	Intel Indeo Video Interactive 4
D V	indeo5	Intel Indeo Video Interactive 5
D A D	interplay_	dpcm DPCM Interplay
D V D	interplayv	ideo Interplay MVE video
DEV	j2k	JPEG 2000
DEV D	jpegls	JPEG-LS
D V D	jv	Bitmap Brothers JV video
D V	kgv1	Kega Game Video
D V D	kmvc	Karl Morton’s video codec
D V D	lagarith	Lagarith lossless
EV	ljpeg	Lossless JPEG
D V D	loco	LOCO
D A D	mace3	MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 3:1
D A D	mace6	MACE (Macintosh Audio Compression/Expansion) 6:1
D V D	mdec	Sony PlayStation MDEC (Motion DE Coder)
D V D	mimic	Mimic
DEV D	mjpeg	MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
D V D	mjpegb	Apple MJPEG-B
D A D	mlp	MLP (Meridian Lossless Packin g)
D V D	mmvideo	American Laser Games M M Video
D V D	motionpixels	Motion Pixels video
D A D	mp1	MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
D A D	mp1float	MP1 (MPEG audio layer 1)
DEA D	mp2	MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A D	mp2float	MP2 (MPEG audio layer 2)
D A D	mp3	MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D	mp3adu	ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D	mp3adufloat	ADU (Application Data Unit) MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D	mp3float	MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
D A D	mp3on4	MP3onMP4
D A D	mp3on4float	MP3onMP4
D A D	mpc7	Musepack SV7
D A D	mpc8	Musepack SV8
DEVSDT	mpeg1video	MPEG-1 video
DEVSDT	mpeg2video	MPEG-2 video
DEVSDT	mpeg4	MPEG-4 part 2
D VSDT	mpegvideo	MPEG-1 video
DEVSD	msmpeg4	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 3
D VSD	msmpeg4v1	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 1
DEVSD	msmpeg4v2	MPEG-4 part 2 Microsoft variant version 2
D V D	msrle	Microsoft RLE
DEV D	msvideo1	Microsoft Video-1
D V D	mszh	LCL (LossLess Codec Li brary) MSZ H
D V D	mxpeg	Mobotix MxPEG video
DEA D	nellymoser	Nellymoser Asao
D V D	nuv	NuppelVideo/RTJPEG
DEV D	pam	PAM (Portable AnyMap) image
DEV D	pbm	PBM (Portable BitMap) image
DEA D	pcm_alaw	PCM A-law / G.711 A-la w
D A D	pcm_bluray	PCM signed 16\|20\|24-bi t big-endian for Blu-ray media
D A D	pcm_dvd	PCM signed 20\|24-bit b ig-endian
DEA D	pcm_f32be	PCM 32-bit floating point big-endian
DEA D	pcm_f32le	PCM 32-bit floating point little-endian
DEA D	pcm_f64be	PCM 64-bit floating point big-endian
DEA D	pcm_f64le	PCM 64-bit floating point little-endian
D A D	pcm_lxf	PCM signed 20-bit little-endian planar
DEA D	pcm_mulaw	PCM mu-law / G.711 mu- law
DEA D	pcm_s16be	PCM signed 16-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_s16le	PCM signed 16-bit litt le-endi an
D A D	pcm_s16le_planar	PCM 16-bit little-endian planar
DEA D	pcm_s24be	PCM signed 24-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_s24daud	PCM D-Cinema audio signed 24- bit
DEA D	pcm_s24le	PCM signed 24-bit little-endian
DEA D	pcm_s32be	PCM signed 32-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_s32le	PCM signed 32-bit little-endian
DEA D	pcm_s8	PCM signed 8-bit
D A D	pcm_s8_planar	PCM signed 8-bit planar
DEA D	pcm_u16be	PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_u16le	PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian
DEA D	pcm_u24be	PCM unsigned 24-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_u24le	PCM unsigned 24-bit little-endian
DEA D	pcm_u32be	PCM unsigned 32-bit big-endian
DEA D	pcm_u32le	PCM unsigned 32-bit little-endian
DEA D	pcm_u8	PCM unsigned 8-bit
D A D	pcm_zork	PCM Zork
DEV D	pcx	PC Paintbrush PCX image
DEV D	pgm	PGM (Portable GrayMap) image
DEV D	pgmyuv	PGMYUV (Portable GrayM ap YUV) image
D S	pgssub	HDMV Presentation Graphic Stream subtitles
D V D	pictor	Pictor/PC Paint
DEV D	ppm	PPM (Portable PixelMap ) image
DEV D	prores	Apple ProRes
EV	prores_anatoliy	Apple ProRes
EV	prores_kostya	Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro)
D V D	prores_lgpl	Apple ProRes (iCodec P ro)
D V D	ptx	V.Flash PTX image
D A D	qcelp	QCELP / PureVoice
D A D	qdm2	QDesign Music Codec 2
D V D	qdraw	Apple QuickDraw
D V D	qpeg	Q-team QPEG
DEV D	qtrle	QuickTime Animation (R LE) video
DEV D	r10k	AJA Kona 10-bit RGB Codec
DEV D	r210	Uncompressed RGB 10-bit
DEV	rawvideo	raw video
DEA D	real_144	RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K)
D A D	real_288	RealAudio 2.0 (28.8K)
D V D	rl2	RL2 video
DEA D	roq_dpcm	id RoQ DPCM
DEV D	roqvideo	id RoQ video
D V D	rpza	QuickTime video (RPZA)
DEV D	rv10	RealVideo 1.0
DEV D	rv20	RealVideo 2.0
D V D	rv30	RealVideo 3.0
D V D	rv40	RealVideo 4.0
D A D	s302m	SMPTE 302M
DEV	sgi	SGI image
D A D	shorten	Shorten
D A D	sipr	RealAudio SIPR / ACELP .NET
D A D	smackaud	Smacker audio
D V D	smackvid	Smacker video
D V D	smc	QuickTime Graphics (SM C)
DEV D	snow	Snow
D A D	sol_dpcm	DPCM Sol
DEA	sonic	Sonic
EA	sonicls	Sonic lossless
D V D	sp5x	Sunplus JPEG (SP5X)
DES	srt	SubRip subtitle
DEV D	sunrast	Sun Rasterfile image
DEV D	svq1	Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 1 / So renson Video 1 / SVQ1
D VSD	svq3	Sorenson Vector Quanti zer 3 / So renson Video 3 / SVQ3
DEV D	targa	Truevision Targa image
D VSD	theora	Theora
D V D	thp	Nintendo Gamecube THP video
D V D	tiertexseq	video Tiertex Limited SEQ vi deo
DEV D	tiff	TIFF image
D V D	tmv	8088flex TMV
D A D	truehd	TrueHD
D V D	truemotion 1	Duck TrueMotion 1.0
D V D	truemotion 2	Duck TrueMotion 2.0
D A D	truespeech	DSP Group TrueSpeech
D A D	tta	True Audio (TTA)
D A D	twinvq	VQF TwinVQ
D V D	txd	Renderware TXD (TeXture Dictionary) image
D V D	ultimotion	IBM UltiMotion
D V D	utvideo	Ut Video
DEV D	v210	Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit
D V D	v210x	Uncompressed 4:2:2 10- bit
DEV D	v308	Uncompressed packed 4: 0.169444444444444
DEV D	v408	Uncompressed packed QT 0.169490740740741 4
DEV D	v410	Uncompressed 4:4:4 10- bit
D V	vb	Beam Software VB
D V D	vble	VBLE Lossless Codec
D V D	vc1	SMPTE VC-1
D V D	vc1image	Windows Media Video 9 Image v 2
D V D	vcr1	ATI VCR1
D A D	vmdaudio	Sierra VMD audio
D V D	vmdvideo	Sierra VMD video
D V D	vmnc	VMware Screen Codec / VMware Video
DEA D	vorbis	Vorbis
D VSD	vp3	On2 VP3
D V D	vp5	On2 VP5
D V D	vp6	On2 VP6
D V D	vp6a	On2 VP6 (Flash version , with alpha channel)
D V D	vp6f	On2 VP6 (Flash version )
D V D	vp8	On2 VP8
D V D	vqavideo	Westwood Studios VQA ( Vector Quantized Animation) video
D A D	wavesynth	Wave synthesis pseudo- codec
D A D	wavpack	WavPack
D A D	wmalossless	Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
D A D	wmapro	Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
DEA D	wmav1	Windows Media Audio 1
DEA D	wmav2	Windows Media Audio 2
D A D	wmavoice	Windows Media Audio Voice
DEVSD	wmv1	Windows Media Video 7
DEVSD	wmv2	Windows Media Video 8
D V D	wmv3	Windows Media Video 9
D V D	wmv3image	Windows Media Video 9 Image
D V D	wnv1	Winnov WNV1
D A D	ws_snd1	Westwood Audio (SND1)
D A D	xan_dpcm	DPCM Xan
D V D	xan_wc3	Wing Commander III / X an
D V D	xan_wc4	Wing Commander IV / Xx an
D V D	xbin	eXtended BINary text
D V D	xl	Miro VideoXL
DES	xsub	DivX subtitles (XSUB)
DEV D	xwd	XWD (X Window Dump) image
DEV D	y41p	Uncompressed YUV 4:1:1 12-bit
D V	yop	Psygnosis YOP Video
DEV D	yuv4	Uncompressed packed 4: 0.0833333333333333

*Note, the names of encoders and decoders do not always match, so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder-only, or decoder-only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported. For example, the h263 decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders.

Media Stream File Formats

MEDIA STREAM FILE FORMATS*
D.	= Demuxing supported
.E	= Muxing supported

E	3g2	3GP2 format
E	3gp	3GP format
D	4xm	4X Technologies format
D	IFF	IFF format
D	ISS	Funcom ISS format
D	MTV	MTV format
DE	RoQ	raw id RoQ format
E	a64	a64 – video for Commodore 64
D	aac	raw ADTS AAC
DE	ac3	raw AC-3
D	act	ACT Voice file format
D	adf	Artworx Data Format
E	adts	ADTS AAC
DE	adx	CRI ADX
D	aea	MD STUDIO audio
DE	aiff	Audio IFF
DE	alaw	PCM A-law format
DE	amr	3GPP AMR file format
D	anm	Deluxe Paint Animation
D	apc	CRYO APC format
D	ape	Monkey’s Audio
DE	asf	ASF format
E	asf_stream	ASF format
DE	ass	Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitle format
DE	au	SUN AU format
DE	avi	AVI format
E	avm2	Flash 9 (AVM2) format
D	avs	AVS format
D	bethsoftvid	Bethesda Softworks VID format
D	bfi	Brute Force & Ignorance
D	bin	Binary text
D	bink	Bink
DE	bit	G.729 BIT file format
D	bmv	Discworld II BMV
D	c93	Interplay C93
DE	caf	Apple Core Audio Format
DE	cavsvideo	raw Chinese AVS video
D	cdg	CD Graphics Format
D	cdxl	Commodore CDXL video format
E	crc	CRC testing format
DE	daud	D-Cinema audio format
D	dfa	Chronomaster DFA
DE	dirac	raw Dirac
DE	dnxhd	raw DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3)
D	dsicin	Delphine Software International CIN format
DE	dts	raw DTS
DE	dv	DV video format
E	dvd	MPEG-2 PS format (DVD VOB)
D	dxa	DXA
D	ea	Electronic Arts Multimedia Format
D	ea_cdata	Electronic Arts cdata
DE	eac3	raw E-AC-3
DE	f32be	PCM 32 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE	f32le	PCM 32 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE	f64be	PCM 64 bit floating-point big-endian format
DE	f64le	PCM 64 bit floating-point little-endian format
DE	ffm	FFM (FFserver live feed) format
DE	ffmetadata	FFmpeg metadata in text format
D	film_cpk	Sega FILM/CPK format
DE	filmstrip	Adobe Filmstrip
DE	flac	raw FLAC
D	flic	FLI/FLC/FLX animation format
DE	flv	FLV format
E	framecrc	framecrc testing format
E	framemd5	Per-frame MD5 testing format
DE	g722	raw G.722
DE	g723_1	raw G.723.1
D	g729	G.729 raw format demuxer
E	gif	GIF Animation
D	gsm	raw GSM
DE	gxf	GXF format
DE	h261	raw H.261
DE	h263	raw H.263
DE	h264	raw H.264 video format
D	hls,applehttp	Apple HTTP Live Streaming format
D	ico	Microsoft Windows ICO
D	idcin	id Cinematic format
D	idf	iCE Draw File
DE	image2	image2 sequence
DE	image2pipe	piped image2 sequence
D	ingenient	raw Ingenient MJPEG
D	ipmovie	Interplay MVE format
E	ipod	iPod H.264 MP4 format
E	ismv	ISMV/ISMA (Smooth Streaming) format
D	iv8	A format generated by IndigoVision 8000 video server
DE	ivf	On2 IVF
D	jv	Bitmap Brothers JV
DE	latm	LOAS/LATM
D	lavfi	Libavfilter virtual input device
D	lmlm4	lmlm4 raw format
D	loas	LOAS AudioSyncStream
D	lxf	VR native stream format (LXF)
DE	m4v	raw MPEG-4 video format
E	matroska	Matroska file format
D	matroska,webm	Matroska/WebM file format
E	md5	MD5 testing format
DE	microdvd	MicroDVD subtitle format
DE	mjpeg	raw MJPEG video
E	mkvtimestamp_v2	extract pts as timecode v2 format, as defined by mkvtoolnix
DE	mlp	raw MLP
D	mm	American Laser Games MM format
DE	mmf	Yamaha SMAF
E	mov	MOV format
D	mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,	3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
E	mp2	MPEG audio layer 2
DE	mp3	MPEG audio layer 3
E	mp4	MP4 format
D	mpc	Musepack
D	mpc8	Musepack SV8
DE	mpeg	MPEG-1 System format
E	mpeg1video	raw MPEG-1 video
E	mpeg2video	raw MPEG-2 video
DE	mpegts	MPEG-2 transport stream format
D	mpegtsraw	MPEG-2 raw transport stream format
D	mpegvideo	raw MPEG video
E	mpjpeg	MIME multipart JPEG format
D	msnwctcp	MSN TCP Webcam stream
DE	mulaw	PCM mu-law format
D	mvi	Motion Pixels MVI format
DE	mxf	Material eXchange Format
E	mxf_d10	Material eXchange Format, D-10 Mapping
D	mxg	MxPEG clip file format
D	nc	NC camera feed format
D	nsv	Nullsoft Streaming Video
E	null	raw null video format
DE	nut	NUT format
D	nuv	NuppelVideo format
DE	ogg	Ogg
DE	oma	Sony OpenMG audio
D	pmp	Playstation Portable PMP format
E	psp	PSP MP4 format
D	psxstr	Sony Playstation STR format
D	pva	TechnoTrend PVA file and stream format
D	qcp	QCP format
D	r3d	REDCODE R3D format
DE	rawvideo	raw video format
E	rcv	VC-1 test bitstream
D	rl2	RL2 format
DE	rm	RealMedia format
D	rpl	RPL/ARMovie format
DE	rso	Lego Mindstorms RSO format
DE	rtp	RTP output format
DE	rtsp	RTSP output format
DE	s16be	PCM signed 16 bit big-endian format
DE	s16le	PCM signed 16 bit little-endian format
DE	s24be	PCM signed 24 bit big-endian format
DE	s24le	PCM signed 24 bit little-endian format
DE	s32be	PCM signed 32 bit big-endian format
DE	s32le	PCM signed 32 bit little-endian format
DE	s8	PCM signed 8 bit format
DE	sap	SAP output format
D	sbg	SBaGen binaural beats script
D	sdp	SDP
E	segment	segment muxer
D	shn	raw Shorten
D	siff	Beam Software SIFF
DE	smjpeg	Loki SDL MJPEG
D	smk	Smacker video
D	sol	Sierra SOL format
DE	sox	SoX native format
DE	spdif	IEC 61937 (used on S/PDIF – IEC958)
DE	srt	SubRip subtitle format
E	svcd	MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE	swf	Flash format
D	thp	THP
D	tiertexseq	Tiertex Limited SEQ format
D	tmv	8088flex TMV
DE	truehd	raw TrueHD
D	tta	True Audio
D	tty	Tele-typewriter
D	txd	Renderware TeXture Dictionary
DE	u16be	PCM unsigned 16 bit big-endian format
DE	u16le	PCM unsigned 16 bit little-endian format
DE	u24be	PCM unsigned 24 bit big-endian format
DE	u24le	PCM unsigned 24 bit little-endian format
DE	u32be	PCM unsigned 32 bit big-endian format
DE	u32le	PCM unsigned 32 bit little-endian format
DE	u8	PCM unsigned 8 bit format
D	vc1	raw VC-1
D	vc1test	VC-1 test bitstream format
E	vcd	MPEG-1 System format (VCD)
D	vfwcap	VfW video capture
D	vmd	Sierra VMD format
E	vob	MPEG-2 PS format (VOB)
DE	voc	Creative Voice file format
D	vqf	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D	w64	Sony Wave64 format
DE	wav	WAV format
D	wc3movie	Wing Commander III movie format
E	webm	WebM file format
D	wsaud	Westwood Studios audio format
D	wsvqa	Westwood Studios VQA format
DE	wtv	Windows Television (WTV)
D	wv	WavPack
D	xa	Maxis XA File Format
D	xbin	eXtended BINary text (XBIN)
D	xmv	Microsoft XMV
D	xwma	Microsoft xWMA
D	yop	Psygnosis YOP Format
DE	yuv4mpegpipe	YUV4MPEG pipe format

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Streaming Media Monitoring—Frequently Asked Questions

Below are some of the most common questions about streaming media monitoring. If you have additional questions, contact us.

What is streaming media monitoring?

It is a proactive approach to supervise the performance, availability, and errors in audio or video streams, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Why is it important to monitor streaming media?

Continuous monitoring identifies bottlenecks, prevents downtimes, and maintains the quality of the stream, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement.

How does Dotcom-Monitor handle streaming video and audio monitoring?

Our agent connects to your media server, buffers, and plays the stream while gathering essential metrics and identifying potential errors.

What types of media formats are supported?

Dotcom-Monitor supports a wide array of formats, including Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Flash-based videos, and many others.

How can I be alerted to issues in real-time?

Configure alerts for specific streams or assets. With global monitoring, get notifications instantly via multiple communication channels like email, text, or phone.

What makes Dotcom-Monitor's streaming media monitoring unique?

With comprehensive metric tracking, global monitoring, and support for numerous codecs and formats, our platform is ideal for businesses that prioritize user experience and streaming quality.

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