Overview of SRTMiniServer version 2.6.3

We present a minor release of SRTMiniServer 2.6.3, which focuses on improving the user interface, optimising SRT streaming via proxy servers, and enhancing overall stability.

At numerous user requests, we’ve redesigned the display of volume widgets in multiview — they are now much more compact and no longer obscure the picture. Monitoring audio levels of multiple streams (SRT, RTMP, RIST, HLS) has become more convenient, especially when there are many sources on screen.

Let us remind you that multiview in SRTMiniServer is not just a monitoring tool. It can be sent as a separate stream to SDI, NDI and other outputs, making it a complete solution for visual monitoring of all incoming SRT (RTMP, HLS) streams directly within your broadcasting infrastructure.

Lately, the challenge of organising streaming in scenarios where obtaining a dedicated IP address is impossible has been discussed more frequently. This is becoming especially relevant due to the growing popularity of mobile connections (e.g., via LTE, mobile internet) and technologies like Starlink, where getting a permanent public IP is practically unattainable or highly challenging.

In our SRTMiniServer, we offer a solution called Proxy mode, implemented for SRT, RTMP and RIST protocols. This enables the server to receive a signal even without a dedicated IP.

In this release, we’ve made the RTMP Proxy call button more accessible: it’s moved to a common tab with all proxy lists for easier search and quick RTMP proxy setup. Thus, using a proxy server that allows receiving an RTMP signal even without a dedicated IP address has become even simpler and faster.

Additionally, in this version we’ve significantly transformed and enhanced the server infrastructure of our proxy services, paying special attention to its reliability, performance and scalability. Now, servers intended for users with active subscriptions and support have been carefully grouped and allocated into a separate dedicated pool. This decision ensures such users have priority access to the most stable and high‑performance proxy servers, which guarantee minimal latency and consistently high‑quality media stream transmission even under heavy service loads.

This segmentation of server resources allows us to:

• guarantee smoother and uninterrupted proxy operation for regular clients;
• reduce the risk of technical issues;
• promptly respond to possible situations involving an increase in the number of simultaneously connected users.

Going forward, we intend not only to maintain this separate pool at the highest level but also to steadily expand the infrastructure to meet our clients’ growing demands for streaming speed and stability, as well as to offer new options and use cases for proxy servers.

An extremely rare issue has been identified and fixed — under certain circumstances, it could lead to the application crashing. The implemented fixes improve the reliability of SRTMiniServer during long‑term continuous operation.