Cardinal documentation
Cardinal takes one live stream from your encoder, encodes it three times in three separate data centers, and delivers it to every viewer in 1080p or 4K. Captions, recordings and a player come with every broadcast.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”- Your first broadcast — from nothing to live in about ten minutes.
- Choosing an encoder — what to send from, and the settings that matter.
- Pricing and billing — what a broadcast costs and how the bill works.
Put it in front of viewers
Section titled “Put it in front of viewers”- Embedding the player on your own website.
- Your own brand on the player and the watch page.
- Giving and tips — a button beside the stream that opens your own giving page.
- Private streams behind an access code.
- Captions.
Build on it
Section titled “Build on it”Everything in Cardinal is an API first. Create a stream per customer, read usage per customer, and pull recordings with plain HTTPS calls. These docs are also available to AI assistants as llms.txt.