Zixi Player Guide

3 min

The Zixi Player mobile app can play live video over IP in real-time with low latency. Zixi Player uses Zixi's own adaptive streaming protocol and is a first-ever adaptive bitrate player at sub-GOP latency. Zixi Player works exclusively with a Zixi Broadcaster.

Features

Playback of Zixi Transport Protocol streams
Supports low-latency (sub-GOP latency)
Enables adaptive bitrate streaming
Enables opening streams directly from a browser
Prevents screen locking during playback
Enables decryption of encrypted streams

Supported Codecs

The player uses the existing hardware decoders on the device.

Supported codecs for iOS:

Video: H264 and HEVC, progressive only
Audio: AAC, MP3, AC-3, Opus

Interlaced video and MPEG1 Layer 2 audio are not supported.

Supported codecs for Android:

Video: H264; additional video codecs are dependent on the specific model.
Audio: AAC; additional video codecs are dependent on the specific model.