09/01/2026
As live production becomes increasingly software-defined, a new question emerges: how do applications from different vendors efficiently access and exchange the same live media?
That’s the problem the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) is designed to help solve.
In our latest blog, Matthew Driscoll breaks down MXL, its role in the industry’s vision for a Dynamic Media Facility (DMF), and why it matters for the future of live production.
MXL creates a common way for software applications to access media within a shared compute environment. Rather than repeatedly moving high-bandwidth media between applications, multiple functions can work from the same shared media buffer.
The potential benefits:
✅ More efficient use of compute and network resources
✅ Greater flexibility to dynamically deploy production functions
✅ A common interface for applications from multiple vendors
✅ More freedom for broadcasters to assemble the capabilities that fit each production
Telestream is taking its first step into this emerging ecosystem by bringing MXL support to Pulse, enabling its software-defined monitoring and analysis capabilities to operate on media within an MXL shared-memory environment.
MXL is only one piece of the broader Dynamic Media Facility vision, but it provides an important building block for more open, interoperable and flexible live production.
Read the full blog: https://bit.ly/4yh5aeK
Heading to ? Visit Telestream in Hall 7, stand 7.B21 to learn more about Pulse and our support for MXL.