How Streaminz works

How Streaminz detects live broadcasts, records them, publishes VODs, and decides how long to keep them.

Streaminz watches the channels in its archive, records their public broadcasts, and publishes each finished broadcast as a VOD. This page explains each stage and what affects it.

From live broadcast to VOD

1. Detect. Streaminz checks each channel on a schedule to see whether it is live. How often depends on the channel’s boost level: from every 3 minutes at level 1 down to every minute at level 3.
2. Record. While the channel is live, Streaminz records the public stream at the best quality the channel’s boost level allows (up to 1080p, 1440p, or 2160p on the shorter side). A source stream below that limit is kept as is.
3. Process. When the broadcast ends, the recording is processed into a playable video with a poster, thumbnails, seek previews, and chapters.
4. Publish. The VOD appears on the channel page and in feeds. Subscribers of the channel get a notification.

Why a VOD can have gaps

Recording depends on the platform. A broadcast can be missed or recorded partly when:

• the platform changes its systems, limits access, or has an outage;
• the broadcast is private, age-gated, or full;
• the stream started shortly before the next check, so the first minutes were missed.

Missing ranges show on the video page as Not recorded with their start and end times, so you know where the gap is.

Who can watch what

See Plans for everything each plan includes.

How long VODs are kept

A VOD is kept for a limited time that depends on the channel’s boost level:

If a channel drops to a lower level, its previous retention is kept for a short grace period before the lower level applies.

Related videos and trends

Streaminz ranks related videos and trending feeds from how much of each video people watch. Anonymous views are counted using a one-way hash of the viewer’s IP address, never the address itself. See the Privacy Policy for details.