Livestream DVR

Does the Livestream DVR work for a 24/7 stream?

The Livestream DVR service is for delayed playback of live events with a beginning and ending time, sent from a live encoder. It is an application typically used by multi-campus/multi-site churches or publishers of live events. 

Another application for the Livestream DVR service is to allow viewers to pause, rewind, seek and play back the livestream with a delay at their own pace of up to 2 hours in the web player (by scrubbing backwards in the timeline) to view parts of a live event that were missed or to review certain scenes or parts of the live event multiple times while the live event is still ongoing. 

Another application for the Livestream DVR service is the CDN-side recording of live event streams with the option to turn recorded live events (with start and end time) into VOD assets for multi-platform distribution by trimming and transcoding the recorded files.

In contrast to live-events, linear streams are sent from the publisher's encoder into the CDN and transmitted in real-time without being recorded and are not recorded on the CDN as they have no start and end-time.

Please keep in mind that DVR is a player-side function that is only supported by web players and browsers. OTT players and players on other devices in most cases do not have such capabilities.