So,
I'm genuinely curious maybe an re-seller here could answer this for me... but what exactly did Xtream Codes do for people? Was it just starting ffmpeg pointed at some RTMP stuff for you? Auto-configured some stuff? Handled authentication of MAG devices?
I'm not familiar with IPTV or the industry/community so I'm just curious on how it worked and why it going down meant dozens of platforms stopped working.
It was a panel provider. Basically software that controlled everyone’s access to the streams.
The suppliers used them to sell to providers. Providers used them to sell to uses and resellers.