Best practices for stable streams

Choose ingest

• On the go with bonding → SRTLA (guide)
• OBS, vMix or action cam without SRT → RTMP/RTMPS (guide)
• Stable single mobile link → SRT is often enough

Codec & quality

• Recommended: H.265 (HEVC) – better quality at the same bitrate than H.264
• Use H.264 / x264 only when performance or the destination requires it
• Enhanced RTMP for HEVC/AV1 only when encoder and path support it

SRT buffer

• OBS (when using SRT): about 500 ms max
• Mobile apps: often 1,000–2,000 ms depending on the network
• Sensible ceiling: about 2,500 ms (around 4× RTT)

Security & operations

• Keep the stream key secret; on leak, recreate the stream
• On incidents, check status.irl.com.de first
• Read dashboard metrics: statistics guide

Fair use

The service is free – please use it fairly. Elevated bitrate is fine while capacity allows. Permanently running automated streams without prior agreement are not permitted. Limits for streams, players and push targets are shown in the panel.