WHEP Gateway PRO & Ultra — Feature Breakdown by Tier

Everything that unlocks at PRO (£45/mo) and Ultra (£75/mo) on the WHEP Gateway Linux appliance — updated for v1.10.1.

Starting Point: The 30-Day Trial

Every WHEP Gateway install starts with a 30-day trial of the full PRO tier. You get every PRO feature listed below from day one — no feature gating during the trial. After 30 days, the gateway locks unless a PRO or Ultra licence is activated.

WHEP Gateway is a self-contained Linux ISO appliance. Flash to a USB stick with Rufus or Etcher, boot on any x86_64 PC, and the setup wizard takes you through the rest. No Linux experience required.

WHEP Gateway dashboard showing three running channels: AJA Corvid 88 SDI input on H.264 NVENC, NDI source on HEVC NVENC, and NDI vMix Output on H.264 QSV. — Three channels running on one box — AJA SDI on H.264 NVENC, NDI sources on HEVC NVENC and H.264 QSV. Captured on an Intel Ultra 9 285 + NVIDIA RTX 2000E Ada workstation with an AJA Corvid 88.

What Comes With PRO

PRO is the gateway's professional tier — aimed at broadcasters, streaming producers, and AV integrators running live workflows.

Inputs — ingest from anywhere

OMT — the new low-latency replacement for NDI, auto-discovered on your LAN
NDI — full-bandwidth and HX, works with vMix, OBS, TriCaster, BirdDog, anything that speaks NDI
SRT — listener and caller, encrypted ingest from cellular bonders, remote encoders, OBS, FFmpeg
WHIP — sub-second WebRTC ingest from any compatible encoder or browser

Encoding — GPU-accelerated, software fallback

H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9 transcoding
Intel Quick Sync (QSV), NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF, and VAAPI hardware paths
Automatic software fallback if a hardware codec fails twice in a row
Per-channel bitrate, GOP, profile and tuning controls

Outputs — fan out to your existing pipeline

WHEP/WebRTC playback to any browser, sub-200ms glass-to-glass on a LAN
Built-in multiview — watch every active channel in a single browser grid, password-protected and shareable, replaces a rack of hardware monitors
NDI output — back into vMix, OBS, TriCaster, hardware multiviewers
OMT output — bridge legacy gear into modern OMT-native production switchers
RTMP and SRT restream — push the same transcoded stream straight to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, or a CDN
WHIP push output — deliver to any WHIP-compatible ingest endpoint

Browser multiview in a 2x2 grid showing four live tiles with green tally borders: AJA Corvid 88 SDI capture top-left, NDI vMix output encoded with AV1 NVENC top-right, NDI vMix output encoded with Intel QSV bottom-left, NDI vMix output encoded with libx264 bottom-right. — The browser multiview at 2x2 with four live tiles, each encoding the same source through a different codec path — AJA SDI to H.264 NVENC, NDI to AV1 NVENC, NDI to Intel Quick Sync, NDI to libx264. Green tally borders, layout selector top-right (1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4).

Scale

16 channels per gateway
2,000 simultaneous viewers per channel
Cloudflare Tunnel built-in — serve viewers over the public internet without opening firewall ports or buying a public IP

What Ultra Adds On Top

Ultra is everything PRO has, plus the broadcast-capture and time-shift features built for OB trucks, news galleries, and event production.

SDI Capture

Blackmagic DeckLink — full DeckLink range including DeckLink Quad and DeckLink 8K Pro, with embedded audio
AJA capture — Corvid, Kona and Io families, multi-channel SDI with embedded audio
Driver installer included — no need to wrestle with Blackmagic or AJA Linux packages by hand

DVR Recording & Playback

Rolling DVR window per channel — rewind, scrub, and seek through hours of live video from any browser
Segment-based, WebSocket + WebCodecs playback, frame-accurate
Pull-out clips and download segments straight from the dashboard

Broadcaster (coming soon)

Multi-channel programme switcher with cuts, transitions and on-air bus, controlled from a browser, all running on the same Linux box as the gateway

Pricing at a Glance

PRO

£45/mo

or £900 lifetime · 1 yr updates

OMT, NDI, SRT, WHIP ingest
H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9 transcoding
RTMP/SRT restream, NDI/OMT output
Browser multiview — grid of all channels
16 channels · 2,000 viewers each
Cloudflare Tunnel built in
Email alerts

Ultra

£75/mo

or £1,500 lifetime · 1 yr updates

Everything in PRO
Blackmagic DeckLink capture
AJA SDI capture
DVR recording & playback
Broadcaster — coming soon

One ISO, Same Hardware

Both tiers run from the same WHEP Gateway ISO. The licence key unlocks the appropriate feature set — no need to reinstall when upgrading from PRO to Ultra, or when extending an expired trial. Hardware requirements are identical: any modern x86_64 PC with at least 8 GB of RAM, an Intel, AMD or NVIDIA GPU for hardware encoding, and a gigabit Ethernet connection.

Hardware telemetry tab showing CPU temperature, CPU usage, memory, NVIDIA RTX 2000E temp 61°C, per-core CPU usage on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285, GPU utilisation and encoder utilisation graphs. — The Hardware telemetry tab. Live CPU, GPU, encoder, memory, fan and clock readings — 5-minute sparklines for everything. NVENC encoder utilisation visible while channels are running.

What's New in v1.10

Trial is now PRO — trial users get NDI/SRT/WHIP ingest, RTMP restream and 16 channels for 30 days, not just OMT
Hardened licence enforcement — clean lockout screen when a trial expires, no orphan FFmpeg processes
Debian 13 (Trixie) base + kernel 6.19 — modern hardware (Lenovo Z890, Arrow Lake-S, Intel I550c NICs) works out of the box
FFmpeg-OMT rebuilt against libvpx9, libsvtav1enc3 and oneVPL — cleaner Quick Sync path, faster AV1, AOM-compatible VP9

30-day PRO trial

Every feature unlocked from day one. No card required.

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