About us
A streaming service run by people who care about the encode
Nordveil started as a regional film archive that put its restorations online because nobody else would.
Origin
From an archive to a catalogue
We spent four years digitising a regional film archive, then discovered that every distribution platform we approached wanted to re-encode our 4K restorations down to a bitrate that undid the work. So we built the delivery ourselves — first for the archive, then for the licensors who noticed their films looked better on our player.
- No advertising on any tier, ever
- Every title is encoded from the delivery master, never from a proxy
- Licensors get per-title playback data, not a quarterly summary
The archive goes online
820 restored titles, one server, no plan.
First licensing deal
A distributor asks us to carry their catalogue.
Per-title encoding
The bitrate ladder becomes per-asset.
Originals
First commission, shot in Tromsø over one winter.
Atmos and HDR10+
The full living-room stack lands.
9,400 hours
38 edge metros, 2.1 million households.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.