Introducing Our New Feature Request System
We are excited to announce that we have launched our new revamped Feature Request platform for customers to submit ideas, vote on new features, and shape our product roadmap. The new system keeps all the functionality you’re familiar with while adding tools that make it easier to participate in product decisions and connect with other […]
MediaCP’s Billing Integration Saves Time and Money
Gone are the days of manually creating streaming accounts and chasing down payments. MediaCP puts you in complete control of your revenue stream, giving your streaming business the professional automation it needs to scale in today’s competitive digital marketplace. MediaCP’s Billing Integration solves these operational headaches with comprehensive platform support that allows for the billing […]
Streamline Your Station With MediaCP’s Powerful DJ Manager
Professional DJ management, seamless scheduling, and priority-based streaming control. Gone are the days of chaotic DJ handovers and conflicting live streams. MediaCP puts you in complete control of who broadcasts when, giving your radio station the professional edge it needs to compete in today’s crowded audio landscape. Busy radio setups often suffer from the same […]
Earn Money Advertising with MediaCP
Turn your video streams into revenue streams with VAST advertising. MediaCP makes it simple to add advertisements to your broadcasts and start earning money from your broadcasts. What is VAST/VMAP Advertising? VAST/VMAP advertising allows you to insert advertisements into your video streams to generate revenue. You can show ads before your content starts (pre-roll) or […]
Never Miss a Beat: How Webhooks in MCP 2.15 Keep You in Control
Instant alerts, seamless integrations, and smarter workflows. MediaCP 2.15 is bringing powerful webhooks to audio and video services, giving you real-time event-driven notifications and the ability to automate your operations like never before. Stay informed, take immediate action, and integrate deeply with your existing systems – before your competitors do. ” MediaCP 2.15’s webhooks put […]
How to setup a Roku Channel with a Live Video Broadcast
Broadcasting video to a Roku channel allows you to reach a large audience, monetize your content through ads and subscriptions, and benefit from a user-friendly interface. It offers customizable content delivery, detailed viewer analytics, and cross-platform integration, making it a scalable and engaging option for content creators and businesses. By following these steps, you should […]
🔁 “Automatic Transcoding = Maximum Reach”
Your audience is everywhere. Your content should meet them where they are—without compromise. One of the biggest barriers to consistent, high-quality video delivery is device compatibility. Viewers are tuning in from phones, tablets, smart TVs, desktops, and even embedded devices. Every screen has its own resolution, bandwidth conditions, and playback requirements. This is where MediaCP […]
Optimizing ABR Streaming: How Source Passthrough Reduces CPU Load
Adaptive Bitrate streaming offers major advantages for broadcasters and viewers, however the high resource usage places it out of reach for many. Using the Source profile on the Media Control Panel allows you to reduce CPU requirements while still offering a high resolution broadcast. What is Source Passthrough? The source passthrough transcoder profile is designed […]
Automatic Encoding on Cloud Video
What is Automatic Encoding? The Automatic Encoding feature will encode customers uploaded media content and recordings to allow for consistent playback. The encoding is configurable to various quality presets but will default to 30 fps and 48 kHz audio, as such our standard recommendation is 48 kHz audio and 30 fps for all encoders as […]
User Roles on Cloud Video
What are User Roles? Customers on Business plans or higher have access to the User Roles feature allowing administrators to define how their customers can use their video platform. Administrators can set the permissions in any combination to limit or allow features for customers with the role. This can be used for anything from stopping […]
Live Events on Cloud Video
What are Live Events? Live Events are a new feature available to our Premium and Business customers. Live Events have been designed to enhance the live streaming experience for both broadcasters and viewers. Utilizing this feature, broadcasters can easily set up one-time or recurring live events that can automatically start, stop, and record channel(s) at […]
What’s new in 2.14
MediaCP 2.14 is a major upgrade with a focus on upgrading Analytics and Reporting features. The changes are a reflection of feature requests from our customers over the last several years. Reporting Features The Reporting interface is now overhauled with a modern and dynamic VueJS front-end with loading of data on a per-tab basis allowing […]
Livestream to Facebook with MediaCP
Why Stream to Facebook With MediaCP Using MediaCP Video Panel or MediaCP Cloud Video you can start streaming to Facebook with a simple sign in and without any need for a stream key. MediaCP simplifies streaming to social media platforms making it accessible for non-technical users, and empowering experienced broadcasters. Get Started Streaming to Facebook […]
Stream Recording on Cloud Video
Cloud Recording is available on Live & TV Channels and allows you to record your encoder broadcasts to be archived or rebroadcast. With MediaCP Cloud Video, you can easily enable recording for your streams and access them from your Media Content dashboard. From there you can download, delete, publish and share your recordings with others. […]
TV scheduling by Tags
Cloud TV channels can schedule videos to play by categorizing them with tags. This approach provides a more organized and efficient way of managing video content. By assigning tags to videos, TV channels can easily search and filter videos based on their category, genre, language, or any other relevant criteria. This makes it easier to […]
Understanding VOD Streaming and Cloud Video Advantages
Video Ondemand Streaming is a technology that allows users to watch video content whenever they want, without having to download or store it on their devices. Users can access video content from various platforms, such as websites, apps, or smart TVs, and stream it over the internet. VOD has many purposes, such as entertainment, education, […]
Cloud Video can reduce reselling costs
Are you using the MediaCP to resell video channels to your customers? Then this article is a must read. We’re now offering a revolutionary online video streaming platform designed first for hosting companies, with no servers or licenses involved. Designed specifically for your business to sell video streaming and not worry about managing servers, software or […]
Introducing Cloud TV Station
We are happy to announce the launch of TV Channels in our serverless Cloud Video platform. Now is the time to update your business model and ditch your physical server or VPS. Our Cloud Video Platform means no more servers, licenses, software updates, server maintenance or security concerns. TV Channels allow you to upload videos […]
Streaming & Encoding Best Practices
To ensure the highest quality playback experience, you should always begin with the highest quality content possible. Aspect Ratio To ensure video content is not stretched inappropriately during playback you should ensure your source content is encoded with the correct display aspect ratio and square pixels. Ensuring your aspect ratio is the same as your […]
What’s new in 2.10.7
Wowza 4.8, Custom domain names, improved language selection, tv station improvements and more
Shoutcast & Icecast Widgets
MediaCP provides numerous Widgets available to Shoutcast & Icecast services to display on your customers websites including: Stream Status – Online or Offline – Basic text output Now Playing – Basic text output Now Playing with Cover Art Connections – Basic text output Bitrate – Basic text output Recently played – basic text output It […]
Introducing the new HTML5 Audio Player for Shoutcast & Icecast
We’ve replaced the Muses Radio Player from ground up with a HTML5 Audio Player supporting MP3 and AAC streams (AAC dependent on browser support). Features The player is packed with features: Automatic Album Cover Art from iTunes or LastFM Upload custom background image instead of, or as a fall back for Album Cover Art Static […]
Secure Panel and Streaming services
Why not have our experts setup HTTPS / SSL for you? Our expert team can install a free LetsEncrypt certificate or a custom SSL certificate into the MediaCP. Buy SSL Installation Service Service The Media Control Panel provides 100% support for SSL in the control panel and all streaming services including Shoutcast 198, Shoutcast 2.5, Shoutcast […]
Multiple Mount Points
The primary usage of this feature is to broadcast at different audio qualities depending on listener requirements. It also allows you to stream different formats (aac and mp3) to maximize device support. Imagine streaming a high quality (128Kbps AAC), medium quality (96Kbps AAC), low quality (48Kbps) as well as an MP3 48Kbps all from a single service. […]
Public Pages for media services
MediaCP 2.5 provides a simple and customizable public start page for each audio streaming service (video – i.e., Wowza & Flussonic support will come in the future), offering the now-playing track, track history, current connections and DJ name (when using sc_trans v2) with a choice of 6 high quality backgrounds. Visitors can switch between mount […]
GeoIP Country Locking for Shoutcast & Icecast Services
MediaCP offers a robust GeoIP Country Locking feature that allows the broadcaster to restrict streaming based on listener location. GeoIP Country Locking is supported on Shoutcast 2, Shoutcast 198, Icecast 2, and Icecast 2 KH. GeoIP Country Locking was overhauled in MediaCP 2.5 and has continued to be improved and refined. Configure GeoIP Country Locking […]
Enhanced AutoDJ Playlists
The flagship feature of our upcoming 2.2.2.0 release includes a major update to the AutoDJ Manager Playlists when using LiquidSoap or Shoutcast Transcoder V2. We introduce 3 different types of playlists including General Rotations, Scheduled and Interval Playlists. Transitioning between playlists is handled smoothly without a restart of the AutoDJ service, and does not interrupt […]
Backup & Restoration
Hard drive failure is the most common cause of data loss, both among professional and personal computer users, and once a hard drive fails, there is little chance of recovery. That is why it’s important to back up your system regularly in order to protect it from hardware failure We have released new documentation on […]
Live Streaming to Facebook
Sharing live video broadcasts can help you connect with your community and customers in a whole new way, making your brand more relatable and accessible. It is now possible to publish your Live Streaming services to Facebook using our Stream Targets function. You can publish to either a Facebook Page or your own Timeline. Learn […]