Frequently Asked Questions

Vodlix time shift moves within the current live buffer of a channel being watched. Vodlix nDVR records programmes so viewers can watch them later from the programme guide.

Yes. Pause and rewind on live channels are now the baseline test of whether linear TV feels current, and Vodlix time shift meets it on every enabled channel.

Yes, and the controls are built for each input rather than shared. Pausing with a remote and scrubbing with a thumb are different interactions, even though what happens to the stream underneath is identical.

It can, and it is worth deciding deliberately rather than discovering later. Advertising in live streams is configured separately from your catalogue, so how ads behave for a viewer who is behind the live edge is a decision you make rather than an accident.

No. Where it is available on a channel it is simply there in the player controls, which is the point. A feature people have to discover or switch on is a feature most of your audience will never use.

Live has no fixed running time to divide into frames, so a plain live stream shows none. On channels with a DVR window, the web player can show previews while viewers seek back through the window, when the streaming origin supplies preview frames, with times shown relative to live.

Yes. Vodlix TV apps follow current TV UI and UX standards, with visible focus, remote friendly navigation and text readable from across the room, rather than a web layout ported to the television.

Per the chart, Muvi supports live streaming but not Live TV, multicast streaming, VR 360, or webhooks, all of which Vodlix supports.

No. The chart lists Live TV, multicast streaming, VR 360, and webhooks as unavailable on Streamhash, while Vodlix supports all of them in addition to standard live streaming.

An OTT platform for broadcasters is a streaming service that carries a TV channel over the internet instead of, or as well as, aerial, cable, or satellite. With Vodlix, a broadcaster runs its live channels, a programme guide, catch-up, and an on-demand library on its own website and in branded mobile and TV apps, and sells access directly to viewers.

Yes. A live channel on Vodlix plays from the stream you already produce: an HLS URL, an RTMP push received through the Flussonic integration, or a UDP/MPEG-TS source. The channel runs continuously, gets a channel number, and sits in your catalogue next to your on-demand titles.

Yes. Add an XMLTV feed for the whole platform or for each channel, match each channel to its ID in the feed, and Vodlix shows now, next, and the week ahead on the web and, with a switch each, in the mobile and TV apps. See EPG.

Yes. Time shift lets viewers pause, rewind, or restart the current programme and then return to live, and nDVR catch-up lets them play programmes that already aired from the guide. You set the window for each channel, and your stream origin needs to support DVR and catch-up playback.

Your website, iOS and Android apps, and TV apps for Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, and LG smart TVs. Viewers can also cast from their phone with Chromecast and AirPlay.

Run free channels with server-side ad insertion through Publica or Aniview, sell subscriptions, charge pay-per-view for events, and package channels into bouquets. Each channel has its own model, so free and premium channels can share one lineup.

Yes. Geo-fencing allows or blocks countries per channel and per title, and the CAS and user control manager enforces territory, age, and screen limits at the stream, not only in the interface. Premium streams can also be protected with DRM.

Yes. Live channels and on-demand video are managed in the same content manager and shown in the same apps, so you can publish episodes, films, and highlights next to the channels they came from.

Your brand. Vodlix is white label: your logo, colours, and channel artwork, on your own domain and in apps published under your name.

Yes. For operators running IPTV on a network they control, multicast support sends one copy of a channel to every receiver tuned to it, so the cost of a popular channel does not grow with its audience. See also IPTV.

Live streaming is included on the Professional, Business, and Enterprise plans; current prices and what each plan includes are on the pricing page. To see your channels running before you commit, book a demo or start a 14-day free trial.