A lightweight agent that lives on location and moves broadcast-quality video across any network — reliably, securely, and without a satellite truck in sight.
TARS-Transport is a native macOS agent that runs on any Mac at your shoot location. It captures your video source, encodes it to broadcast-grade quality, and sends a clean SRT stream to your studio — over the open internet, without packet loss eating your signal.
No satellite uplink. No encoder rack. No engineer on site. Just a Mac Mini, a camera, and a TARS-Transport node running quietly in the background.
Because it's a TARS agent, it joins your production session automatically — discoverable by your producer, controllable from anywhere, always in sync.
SRT was built for exactly this. Packet recovery, encryption, and reliable delivery over unpredictable internet connections. Not WebRTC. Not RTMP. The right protocol for live broadcast.
Every TARS-Transport node joins a named session with a unique code. Your producer sees it appear automatically. No IP addresses to configure. No port forwarding to fight.
Runs as a lightweight menubar utility on any Mac. Apple Silicon optimized. Zero CPU overhead on the media pipeline thanks to hardware encode. Deploy it and forget it.
The producer can start, stop, and monitor transport nodes remotely via Ably — the same control bus used across all of TARS. One session, everything in sync.
VideoToolbox hardware encode. HEVC pipeline. Dolby Vision support in progress. When your cameras are ready for 4K HDR, TARS-Transport already is.
Deploy as many nodes as your production needs. Each one is independent, each one is session-scoped. New York, LA, London — all sources, one studio.
Drop a Mac Mini on location with a camera and a TARS-Transport node. Your producer is in another city. Your stream is flawless. Nobody needs to be there to babysit it.
Multiple guests, multiple cities, one show. Each location runs a transport node. TARS-Studio pulls all the feeds together. Your audience sees a single, switched production.
Conferences, trade shows, live events. A transport node on a laptop is your entire uplink package. No encoder, no satellite, no truck. Just a node and a good connection.
Feed a remote TARS-Transport output directly into your ATEM as an SRT source. Your switcher sees it as a local feed. The signal came from across the world. Nobody can tell.
Drop a node on location. Connect it to your session. Your producer has the feed. That's it.