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Sponsoring the In The Groove Eurocup 2026

Hey Everyone, Some on our team are quite fans of Arcade machines in general and especially rhythm games. A combination of a few local arcades was going to host the community driven In The Groove Eurocup event, so we figured it would be fun

Balder Viëtor May 24, 2026

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Documentation getting updated

Hey everyone, We're finally close to releasing our first documentation update. Sadly the full documentation of MistServer was slightly too big to do at once. Instead we've started updating the documentation in parts. First up is the introdu

Balder Viëtor May 16, 2026

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Webcodec player making it to 3.11

Hey everyone, We'll be adding our Webcodec player to MistServer 3.11. We're excited for this protocol as it is not build on Media Source Extensions (MSE) , but a layer deeper on WebCodecs . This allows much more control on how the media is

OptiMist Team May 9, 2026

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Upgraded our stream metadata information

Hey Everyone, Today I wanted to show you a change we're planning for the meta information available within the MistServer interface (or API). As you might've spotted there's a lot more information available. Funny thing is that this informa

Balder Viëtor May 2, 2026

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HLS segment cache using Nginx

Hey everyone, While we're completing the cache feature within MistServer, we figured we write a guide about one of the major reasons why we created this cache in the first place. The ability to cache HLS segments instead of serving an uniqu

Balder Viëtor April 25, 2026

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Updates for automatic track selection for streams (ABR)

Hey everyone, We're making some well needed changes to the automatic track selection within MistServer. Currently unless a track is masked from the specific process it will always default to the last added track. This decision worked pretty

Balder Viëtor April 19, 2026

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Source disconnect behaviour aka Resume support

Hey everyone, Today we wanted to talk about Resume support or Source disconnect behaviour. This greatly impacts how your live streams behave when a source drops, reconnects or simply needs to restart. Whether this is because of power failur

Balder Viëtor April 11, 2026

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MistServer load balancer (beta) guide released

Hello everyone, We've finished our long overdue beta guide for the MistServer load balancer . The load balancer has the awkward honor of being both in beta and active use for over 8 years already. The original planned features for the load

OptiMist Team April 5, 2026

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Managing multiple servers through Ansible

Hey Everyone, This is one for the slightly more advanced users of MistServer that want to run multiple servers at once. Usually we get asked what we would recommend for setting up multiple servers. Luckily it does not matter too much what y

Balder Viëtor March 28, 2026

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