We designed Samba Live with the user in mind, aiming for simplicity and ease-of-use from the outset. Seamless connection to the service is critical so we set three key aims: no need to download or install software, accessible from anywhere, 24/7 availability.
Windows |
For participants: Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
Mac |
For participants: Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
Linux |
For participants: Any 2GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core CPU or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
Windows | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
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Mac | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
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Linux | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
Windows | Mac | Linux | Solaris |
Microsoft® Windows 10® Microsoft® Windows 8.x® Microsoft® Windows 7® SP1 |
Mac OS X v10.8 or higher Chrome v50 or higher (recommended for best performance), Firefox 49.x or higher |
Red hat® enterprise linux (RHEL) 5 Novell SUSE® 9.x or higher Ubuntu 10 or later |
Solaris 10 Chrome v50 or higher (recommended for best performance), Firefox 49.x or higher |
We highly recommend making sure your browser is always keep up to date.
Windows |
Microsoft® Windows 10®, 8.x®, or 7® SP1 |
Mac |
Mac OS X v10.8 or higher |
Linux |
All modern Linux distros with desktop environment (e.g., Ubuntu, Redhat) |
Solaris |
Solaris 10 |
We highly recommend making sure your browser is always kept up to date.
Windows | ||
Microsoft® Windows 10®Firefox 49.x or higher, Chrome v50 or higher Microsoft® Windows 8.x®Firefox 49.x or higher, Chrome v50 or higher Microsoft® Windows 7® SP1Firefox 49.x or higher, Chrome v50 or higher |
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Mac | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
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Linux | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
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Solaris | ||
For participants:
2.0GHz CPU with dual-core processor minimum (Recommended: Quad-core i5 processor or better) 4GB of RAM minimum (Recommended: 8GB or more) |
We recommend making sure your browser is always keep up to date.
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Android |
Chrome 34+, |
iOS |
Safari 9+ |
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We highly recommend using our mobile applications to access Samba Live sessions from mobile devices as they are optimized to guarantee high-level performance.
Audio | Video | Video (HQ and resolution) | Screen sharing |
Minimum 50 kbps upload/download |
Minimum 100kbps upload/download (200 kbps recommended) |
Minimum 500 kbps upload/download |
Minimum 800 kbps upload/download (1.5 mbps recommended) |
While Samba Live is designed to use bandwidth efficiently, and even though it does try to degrade gracefully, it is still a broadband platform. For best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use a high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. Use our System Check application to test your connection prior to attending a conference. Please consider packet loss, latency in round trips and jitter value of connections used.
Audio |
Minimum 50 kbps upload/download |
Video |
Minimum 250kbps upload/download |
Video (HQ and resolution) |
Minimum 900 kbps upload/download (3+ mbps recommended) |
Screen sharing |
Minimum 800 kbps upload/download (1.5 mbps recommended) |
While Samba Live is designed to use bandwidth efficiently, and even though it does try to degrade gracefully, it is still a broadband platform. For best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. Use our System Check application to test your connection prior to attending a conference. Please consider packet loss, latency in round trips, and jitter value of connections used.
Audio |
Minimum 50 kbps upload/download (100 kbps recommended) |
Video |
Minimum 100kbps upload/download (200 kbps recommended) |
Video (HQ and resolution) |
Minimum 500 kbps upload/download (1 mbps recommended) |
Screen sharing |
Minimum 800 kbps upload/download (1.5 mbps recommended) |
While Samba Live is designed to use bandwidth efficiently, and even though it does try to degrade gracefully, it is still a broadband platform. For best possible and most reliable experience do not use WiFi equipment and use a high-grade, dedicated, low-latency broadband internet access. Use our System Check application to test your connection prior to attending a conference. Please consider packet loss, latency in round trips and jitter value of connections used.
If you are using the Samba Live cloud service (on https://samba.live), you may check your ports and our server IP addresses on our System Check Tool. If you are a server client, please refer to your own system check tool (installed with your Samba Live) or contact support.
The following port options are available to you, in order of decreasing performance.
1. Allow RTP Traffic UDP:1024-65535
This will give the best performance, as it provides a direct connection path to our media servers.
2. Allow RTP Traffic UDP:80 or UDP:443 (incoming/outgoing)
This will allow UDP connections to our media servers via a TURN server on port 80. UDP is the preferred transfer protocol for real-time communications. However, the single port could cause performance problems if there is a lot of traffic between our networks.
3. Allow RTP Traffic TCP:80 or TCP:443 (incoming/outgoing)
This will allow TCP connections to our media servers via a TURN server on port 80. TCP could cause issues, especially when there is a lot of traffic or poor connectivity. Additionally, the single port could cause performance problems if there is a lot of traffic between our networks.
NOTE: For security reasons, we do not allow direct TCP connections to our media server.
What happens if you only open a few ports to the Media Server?
We require four ports per user for UDP streaming. Ports cannot be shared by users, and ports are assigned in a random fashion from any available server port in the range of 1024-65k. If the ports the service attempts to connect to are not available on the client then the system will fall back to relaying via TCP over the signaling server. So, if you happen to be extremely lucky, and all four ports you are assigned happen to fall into the IP range you opened then you will connect via UDP. This is not recommended.
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
CPU: 4 cores RAM: 4GB At least 60GB disk allocation |
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
Details available on request |
NOTE: Two media servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware |
CPU: 16 vCPU RAM: 10 GB At least 100 GB disk allocation 2 dedicated IPs |
Operating system |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
Software |
Details available on request |
Hardware | ||
CPU: 4 cores |
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Operating system | ||
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
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Software | ||
Details available on request |
NOTE: Two media servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
Minimum: Recommended for up to 2000 concurrent users: |
Linux recommended Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server 6.6 64 bit Linux CentOS 6.6 64 bit Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 R2 64bit Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 64bit |
Apache 2 with mod_rewrite, or nginx 1.10 or newer PHP 5.6 (NTS) Zend Guard Loader MySQL 5, or MariaDB 10.1 or newer ProFTP or similar |
Hardware |
CPU: 8 vCPU RAM: 12 GB Disk: several TB, depending on usage 1 Dedicated IP |
Operating system |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
Software |
Details available on request |
Hardware | ||
Minimum: Recommended for up to 2000 concurrent users: |
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Operating system | ||
Linux recommended |
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Software | ||
Apache 2 with mod_rewrite, or nginx 1.10 or newer |
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
CPU: 2 cores RAM: 4GB At least 80GB disk allocation |
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional |
Microsoft Office 2016 Adobe PDF Reader 10.x or later Samba Live Media Converter 5.x Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5.2 |
NOTE: Two converter servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware |
CPU: 4 cores RAM: 4GB At least 80GB disk allocation |
Operating system |
Windows 10 Professional, 64-bit |
Software |
Microsoft Office 2016 Adobe PDF Reader 10.x or later Samba Live Media Converter 5.x Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5.2 |
NOTE: Two converter servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | ||
CPU: 2 cores |
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Operating system | ||
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional |
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Software | ||
Microsoft Office 2016 |
NOTE: Two converter servers are required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
Intel Xeon E5 3.5GHz or better 64 GB RAM 1 TB Disk |
Cent OS 6, 64-bit |
FreeSWITCH — version 1.4.15 CDR stats (optional) |
PhoneSync server should be in same LAN as Media Server for optimal performance.
Hardware |
Intel Xeon E5 3.5GHz or better 64 GB RAM 1 TB Disk |
Operating system |
Cent OS 6, 64-bit |
Software |
FreeSWITCH — version 1.4.15 CDR stats (optional) |
PhoneSync server should be in same LAN as Media Server for optimal performance.
Hardware | ||
Intel Xeon E5 3.5GHz or better |
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Operating system | ||
Cent OS 6, 64-bit |
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Software | ||
FreeSWITCH — version 1.4.15 |
PhoneSync server should be in same LAN as Media Server for optimal performance.
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
CPU: 4 cores RAM: 4GB At least 60GB disk allocation |
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
Details available on request |
These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware |
CPU: 4 vCPU RAM: 4GB At least 60GB disk allocation 1 dedicated IP |
Operating system |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
Software |
Details available on request |
Hardware | ||
CPU: 4 cores |
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Operating system | ||
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
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Software | ||
Details available on request |
These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | Operating system | Software |
CPU: 4 cores RAM: 4GB At least 60GB disk allocation |
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
Details available on request |
NOTE : Multiple recording servers are required dependent on number of concurrent recordings are running. We strongly recommend cloud EC2 instances which can be started when required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware |
CPU: 4 vCPU RAM: 10 GB At least 500 GB disk allocation 1 Dedicated IP |
Operating system |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
Software |
Details available on request |
NOTE : Each recorder node can run 8 recorder containers. Each recorder container is used for 1 recording, for the duration of the recording, so if you estimate more than 8 recordings simultaneously then provision a second node.
Hardware | ||
CPU: 4 cores |
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Operating system | ||
Linux Ubuntu 16 |
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Software | ||
Details available on request |
NOTE : Multiple recording servers are required dependent on number of concurrent recordings are running. We strongly recommend cloud EC2 instances which can be started when required. These specifications can vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | Software |
2x Intel Deca-Core Xeon E5-2650v4 128 GB RAM 12x4TB SATA RAID 10 1 Gbps link |
VMWare vSphere ESXi 6.5 |
These are sample hypervisor specs. Specifications could vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware |
2x Intel Deca-Core Xeon E5-2650v4 128 GB RAM 12x4TB SATA RAID 10 1 Gbps link |
Software |
VMWare vSphere ESXi 6.5 |
These are sample hypervisor specs. Specifications could vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Hardware | ||
2x Intel Deca-Core Xeon E5-2650v4 |
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Software | ||
VMWare vSphere ESXi 6.5 |
These are sample hypervisor specs. Specifications could vary depending on client use case. Please contact us for more information.
Windows | Mac | Linux |
Any camera or video card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Samba Live has been tested and works well with most Logitech Web Cameras. Logitech C920 and later models recommended |
Any camera or video card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported |
USB and FireWire supported |
Windows |
Any camera or video card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Samba Live has been tested and works well with most Logitech Web Cameras. Logitech C920 and later models recommended |
Mac |
Any camera or video card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported |
Linux |
USB and FireWire supported |
Windows | ||
Any camera or video card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Samba Live has been tested and works well with most Logitech Web Cameras. Logitech C920 and later models recommended |
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Mac | ||
Any camera or video card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported |
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Linux | ||
USB and FireWire supported |
Windows | Mac | Linux |
Any microphone or sound card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
Any microhphone or sound card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
Windows |
Any microphone or sound card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended |
Mac |
Any microphone or sound card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended |
Linux |
USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-canceling microphones are strongly recommended |
Windows | ||
Any microphone or sound card compatible with the Windows Driver Model (WDM) USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
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Mac | ||
Any microhphone or sound card compatible with the QuickTime driver model USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
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Linux | ||
USB and FireWire supported Headsets or echo-cancelling microphones are strongly recommended |
We support a wide range of drawing and writing devices. Please contact support if your device is not fully supported.
Image | Video | Audio | External sources |
PNG GIF JPG |
MP4 M4A MP4V |
MP3 |
YouTube ® Vimeo ® Any URL with a supported file type |
Files supported by Samba Live converter will be automatically prepared for online presentation by the Samba Live conversion software. All ASP customers enjoy this service. Due to the great diversity in video codecs and Digital Rights Management (DRM), some video files may fail to convert even though they carry a file extension listed above. Contact us if you want to present a file that is not listed above, or use the inbuilt screen sharing feature to instantly broadcast your desktop.
Image |
PNG GIF JPG / JPEG |
Video |
MP4 / MPEG4 WEBM |
Audio |
MP3 |
External sources |
YouTube ® Vimeo ®
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Files supported by Samba Live converter will be automatically prepared for online presentation by the Samba Live conversion software. All ASP customers enjoy this service. Due to the great diversity in video codecs and Digital Rights Management (DRM), some video files may fail to convert even though they carry a file extension listed above. Contact us if you want to present a file that is not listed above or use the inbuilt screen sharing feature to instantly broadcast your desktop. Max file size 150MB.
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PNG |
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Video | ||
MP4 |
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Audio | ||
MP3 |
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External sources | ||
YouTube ® |
Files supported by Samba Live converter will be automatically prepared for online presentation by the Samba Live conversion software. All ASP customers enjoy this service. Due to the great diversity in video codecs and Digital Rights Management (DRM), some video files may fail to convert even though they carry a file extension listed above. Contact us if you want to present a file that is not listed above, or use the inbuilt screen sharing feature to instantly broadcast your desktop.
Image | Video | Audio | MS Office™, text and PDF |
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Coming soon |
AAC |
PPT, PPTX DOC, DOCX XLS, XLSX TXT, RTF |
Image |
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Video |
Please note, at this time, the Samba Live converter doesn't support embedded videos |
Audio |
MS Office™, text and PDF |
PPT, PPTX DOC, DOCX XLS, XLSX TXT, RTF |
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Video | ||
Coming soon |
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Audio | ||
AAC |
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MS Office™, text and PDF | ||
PPT, PPTX |
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
A WAY TO MAKE EUROPE
DIGITAL SAMBA, S.L. has participated in the ICEX-Next Export Initiation Program, with the support of ICEX and the co-financing of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The purpose of this support is to contribute to the international development of the company and its environment.