Downloadable computer software for streaming, transmitting, processing, compressing, encoding, decoding, storing, and optimizing video, audio, and multimedia content across various networks and platforms; downloadable computer software with a user interface for encoding and transmitting multimedia content; downloadable computer software for managing and delivering real-time and on-demand multimedia content at multiple bitrates and resolutions; downloadable computer software for integration into hardware, edge platforms, and software-defined systems to enable efficient and reliable media delivery in constrained or remote network environments.