What WAVE speaks

One API in front; the full media stack behind it.

Contribution & ingest

SRT, RTMP(S), WHIP, RIST, NDI, MPEG-TS, SDI.

Delivery & playback

HLS, LL-HLS, DASH, CMAF, MoQ (Media over QUIC) + WebTransport, WebRTC (WHEP), progressive MP4.

Audio over IP

AES67, Dante, OMT, MXL.

Codecs

Video: H.264 / AVC, H.265 / HEVC, AV1. Audio: AAC, Opus, FLAC, PCM.

Captions & metadata

WebVTT, SRT subtitles, TTML / IMSC, CEA-608 / 708, live transcription.

Content protection

Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay, CENC multi-DRM.

Agent & API

HTTPS, HTTP-402 (x402), WebSocket, SSE, webhooks.

See the live breakdown at wave.online/protocol.