TV channels for cruise ships and offshore sites

The vessel pulls encrypted SRT from the core site nearest its region, and the region changes as the ship moves: Luxembourg or Frankfurt in northern Europe, Dallas in the Caribbean, Singapore across South East Asia, Johannesburg down the African coast. The feed follows the itinerary rather than staying pinned to one site.

On board, our player appliance or the same job in software terminates SRT and puts out UDP multicast for the cabin TVs, exactly as a local headend would. Adaptive HLS / DASH runs alongside it for the guest app, phones and tablets, from the same channels and the same EPG.

SRT latency is configured per vessel from the measured round trip, not from a default, and ARQ repairs the losses a satellite link produces without dropping the service. Where the link is shared with guest internet, each channel runs at a capped constant bitrate so television cannot starve the rest of the ship.

PLAYER APPLIANCE Terminates SRT on board and feeds UDP multicast to the cabins. SEE THE PAGE → PLAYOUT SOFTWARE The same conversion on a server already in the rack. SEE THE PAGE →

A ship is the hardest delivery case we have: round trips of several hundred milliseconds on geostationary capacity, bandwidth that changes with beam, weather and passenger count, and hours in port or at a canal where the link is worse than the brochure suggests. The bouquet has to degrade in a way the guest tolerates.

So we shape it. Channel variants are capped, under 2 Mbps per channel where the link is tight, with the ladder trimmed to the rungs the cabin screens actually use. The bouquet itself is trimmed too: the channels the passenger mix on that itinerary watches, rather than every feed in the catalogue.

An on-board cache holds catch-up and restart material and refreshes on a schedule you set, so replay viewing does not touch the satellite at all during peak hours. Per-vessel monitoring of bitrate, loss, retransmission and uptime per channel is visible to your shore IT and to your bridge team, not only to our NOC.

Rights matter here as much as bandwidth. Cabin viewing is a separate grant from redistribution, territorial windows move with the ship, and we state per channel what the rights holder allows before the vessel sails rather than after a complaint.

Send us the vessel list, the itinerary regions and the passenger mix. We propose a bouquet and a per-channel bitrate cap against the link you actually have, confirm the per-channel monthly rate, and issue endpoints within 12 hours. No setup fee, and volume discounts apply from ten channels.

Test it in port first with the free three-day trial. It ships both encrypted SRT and adaptive HLS / DASH for the channels you pick, so the cabin multicast path and the guest app path can be measured over the real satellite link before a contract exists.