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HLS

Score 18.3 / 100 6 providers +7 via APIs 9 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (6)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
100msLive VideoLive StreamingVideo ConferencingWebRTC1 API59.9
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
WowzaVideoStreamingLive StreamingVideo-on-Demand2 APIs49.9ZencoderCompanyVideoVideo EncodingTranscoding1 API47.9VideoSDKVideoAudioWebRTCReal-Time Communication1 API40.1
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
BitmovinVideoEncodingStreamingLive Streaming2 APIs35.7Eyevinn TechnologyAd InsertionBroadcast IntercomChannel EngineCMAF8 APIs31.0

APIs with this tag (9)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Dolby OptiView Player SDK (THEOplayer)Cross-platform video player (formerly THEOplayer) with SDKs for Web, Android, iOS & tvOS, React Native, Flu...63.1Ant Media Server REST APIThe Ant Media Server REST API provides programmatic access to all streaming server management functions inc...59.8Zype Player APIRetrieves the embeddable player for a video in html, js or json form — the json form returns metadata plus ...58.1
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Livepeer Playback APIPlayback info endpoint returning HLS/WebRTC playback URLs and metadata for a stream or asset, plus access-c...52.8Wowza FlowplayerCommercial-grade HTML5 video player with iOS, tvOS, and Android SDKs, DRM (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady), ...49.9
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Brightcove Live APICreates and manages live streams with comprehensive streaming controls including RTMP, RTP, RTP-FEC, and SR...38.5LiveKit Egress APIRecord rooms or stream them to RTMP / HLS endpoints; output to S3, GCS, Azure Blob.32.2Eyevinn Channel EngineChannel Engine is an open source JavaScript/TypeScript library for producing 24/7 HLS FAST (Free Ad-Support...31.0iHeartRadio Live Stations APIThe iHeartRadio Live Stations API provides access to live broadcast radio station information including sta...27.8

Companies reaching this through an API (7)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “HLS” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Ant Media Brightcove Dolby.io iHeartRadio LiveKit Livepeer Zype

Score breakdown

Frequency
31.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
50.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

RTMP 6 co-occurrences DRM 6 co-occurrences Transcoding 6 co-occurrences Player 5 co-occurrences WebRTC 8 co-occurrences Live Streaming 9 co-occurrences Video 10 co-occurrences Streaming 10 co-occurrences

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