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Is the SDK going to allow a way to bypass all of the Kickflip infrastructure to allow the core streaming library to be used on your own maintained infrastructure?

On the product I work on, we already have our own house built media server and rtmp restreamer. As to not supporting RTMP, in our experience RTMP had much lower latency, which resulted in us switching away from HLS wherever possible.

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RTMP support is on our roadmap (and actually exists inside the SDK in a disabled state), and our live transcoding backend will have the ability to restream to any arbitrary RTMP endpoint in addition to the other outputs.

That's good to hear. Is the plumbing the "cost" of using the open source sdk, which in turn technically requires you pay for the service, or is there a way to remove all of the kickflip infrastructure plumbing and rely on our own?

I don't actually work on the mobile streaming side of things, I work on the web side, particularly the video player.

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