your multimedia solution

An easily understandable and customisable multimedia framework.

How it works

Membrane is easy to learn and understand. All you have to do is get familiar with the basic concepts that stand behind it.

Simplicity

Ready-to-use elements

Membrane provides frequently needed tools that are packed into plugins and allows you to create a pipeline out of them.

Scalability

An intuitive pipeline abstraction

The core concept of Membrane is the pipeline. It specifies elements you want to use and set up how data should flow between them.

Flexibility

Easy to customize

If you need to do some custom job, you can write your own element. Membrane simply defines the rules of creating them.

Effectiveness

Modular and reusable

Pipelines that you create can be easily converted into bins and used as elements in other pipelines. This allows you to reuse their logic in other situations.

Universality

Self-hosted

You can use Membrane in any Elixir application and deploy it wherever you like.

Membrane is more than a set of tools. It gives you the know-how to build the one you need.

What can you do with Membrane?

Real Time Communication

WebRTC SFU implementation with modular architecture for custom I/O. Perfect for applying processing, dumping media at any stage, or creating additional non-WebRTC outputs.

Server-side processing

Video scaling, framerate conversion, cut & merge and text overlay. Audio mixing, resampling and fading. With easy option to create and add custom ones.

Multiple and switchable I/O protocols

Existing implementations of WebRTC, HLS, RTP, RTSP, RTMP, File, Http chunks, integration with speech to text utilities.

Seamless integration with any Elixir app

Membrane is built in Elixir. It reaps the benefits of Elixir's scalability and fault tolerance. But also because of that Mebrane's pipelines can easily become a part of any Elixir application, e.g. a web server built with Phoenix.

Transcoding

From and to many popular codecs: aac, opus, mpeg, h264, vp9, vp8.

Monitoring utilities

Tools to monitor pipeline health and EVM performance to ease debugging process.

Trusted by

Firework

Firework is an innovative online platform that enables business owners to connect with their customers through video.

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Keep In Mind

Keep In Mind specializes in custom software solutions, particularly in the livestreaming sector.

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Videstra

Videstra is a company that provides streams from IP cameras placed in public places in the USA.

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Created by specialists to solve real-life problems

Membrane is free and open-source. It's created by Software Mansion – a software company that is specialised in building tools for developers. At Software Mansion we use Membrane to create custom solutions for our client's projects.

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