Live Dealer Streaming
The video technology that captures the dealer and table and delivers a low-latency, adaptive-quality feed to each player's device in real time.
Definition
Live dealer streaming is the end-to-end video pipeline that turns a studio table into an interactive online game: cameras and the Game Control Unit capture and encode the feed, which is compressed and delivered over the internet using adaptive-bitrate and low-latency streaming so it adjusts to each player's connection and device. The stream is synchronised with the game data (from OCR and sensors) and the betting interface, so what a player sees, the results recorded, and the bets they place all line up. Quality, stability, and low latency are central to the experience and to fairness, and providers invest heavily in content-delivery infrastructure to serve many concurrent viewers of the same table across the world.
Worked example
A single roulette table's feed is encoded once and streamed at several quality levels; a player on mobile data automatically receives a lower-bitrate version while a player on fibre gets HD, both watching the same spin in near real time with their bets synced to the server clock.
Why it matters
Streaming is the technical foundation that makes live casino possible at scale, so understanding it explains why studio hardware, latency, and delivery infrastructure matter. For engineers and operators, stream quality and reliability are direct drivers of player satisfaction and of the fairness controls that keep betting synchronised.