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Nulx
Transcoding and streaming without handing over your files
Overview
Handing video to an outside service usually means uploading your masters to their servers. Nulx inverts that: transcoding and stream preparation happen inside the customer’s own S3 or R2 bucket, so the files never leave the account and storage and bandwidth stay billed by the cloud provider. Currently in beta.
Challenge
Video costs climb with every gigabyte served, and once the masters live in a vendor’s storage, moving away later becomes its own project.
Approach
- Ran transcoding and stream preparation inside the customer’s own S3 or R2 bucket so masters never leave it.
- Supported HLS and DASH adaptive streaming, automatic captions with multi-language translation, and HEVC/AV1 codecs.
- Added RTMPS live ingest and DRM integration, with job retries and idempotency built in.
Technologies
- Video transcoding
- Adaptive streaming (HLS/DASH)
- Object storage integration (S3/R2)
Results
- Masters and delivery stay in the customer’s own cloud account, so storage and bandwidth carry no reseller markup.
- A single command exports everything, so no vendor lock-in accumulates.