Get ready for Flash farewell and RTMP decline
In 2017 Adobe announced that they would stop supporting the Flash technology at the end of 2020.This announcement agitated the media streaming industry as it meant that Flash Player, a critical...
View ArticleIntroducing Qosifire - live streaming quality monitoring service
Live streaming is an industry which is rigorous to quality. If you participate in live auction or track surveillance, you cannot miss any part of live stream. Even if you run an online radio or sport...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RTMPS: SSL support for RTMP in Nimble Streamer
Today RTMP still remains the de-facto industry standard for publishing of live streams from encoders and their delivery between nodes over the Internet. Nimble Streamer has full support for this...
View ArticleDVR export to MP4
DVR feature set in Nimble Streamer provides streams recording and playback. Basic playback is available via a direct HLS or MPEG-DASH link as described in described in this article.However you may need...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Server tags in WMSPanel
WMSPanel has been the best web service for media servers reporting for many year so far. We're improving our reporting and monitoring capabilities all the time.Following the feedback from our customers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q1
Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols. It's based on stats from WMSPanel reporting service which handles data from Wowza Streaming Engine and Nimble Streamer servers -...
View Article2019 Q1 summary
The first quarter of year 2019 brought a new product and several interesting updates by Softvelum team.Qosifire live streaming quality monitoring serviceQosifire is a web service for monitoring live...
View ArticleSCTE-35 markers passthrough
Nimble Streamer covers wide variety of live streaming scenarios for numerous use cases. Some of them are related to advertising solutions which involve the usage of SCTE-35 markers which need to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Support for HEVC over RTMP in Softvelum products
RTMP protocol is widely used for origin delivery, e.g. delivery from encoders to edge servers or delivery between origins and edges. The content codecs defined by the spec are H.264 and VP6.However the...
View ArticleSRT packet loss is fixed
Softvelum team is an active participant of SRT community and we follow up with all updates as well as contribute to the code base.Recently the SRT library was updated with a commit which fixes packet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SRT sender max bandwidth
SRT is a streaming protocol which adapts to the network conditions, helps compensate for jitter, bandwidth fluctuations and has error recovery mechanism to minimize the packet loss.These excellent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Streaming from Larix Broadcaster to Facebook Live
Facebook Live became extremely popular lately and many users of Larix Broadcaster for Android and iOS and Larix Screencaster for Android also started publishing live to Facebook. We get questions about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Streaming from Larix Broadcaster to YouTube Live
Facebook Live became extremely popular lately and many users of Larix Broadcaster for Android and iOS and Larix Screencaster for Android also started publishing live to Facebook. We get questions about...
View ArticleSCTE-53 markers in Nimble Advertizer
Nimble Advertizer is a server-side ads insertion framework for Nimble Streamer. Its business logic may be defined by both a dynamic handler and a pre-defined config, you can find full tech...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Efficient usage of SRT latency and maxbw parameters
We continue educating streaming people on SRT protocol usage. It's a streaming protocol which adapts to the network conditions, helps compensate for jitter and other fluctuations with error recovery...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q2
Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols. It's based on stats from WMSPanel reporting service which handles data from Wowza Streaming Engine and Nimble Streamer servers -...
View Article2019 Q2 summary
Our team has been working on improvements through Q2 of 2019 so let's see what we've accomplished.QosifireLast quarter we've introduced Qosifire live streaming monitoring service. It allows tracking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Passing Icecast metadata in Nimble Live Transcoder
Nimble Streamer has an advanced audio streaming feature set. Live audio streaming covers transmuxing of Icecast pulled and published streams, audio transcoding in Nimble Live Transcoder and ads...
View ArticleRTMP re-publishing control API in Nimble Streamer
Nimble Steamer has its own native status and control API which can be used for interacting directly with server instance rather than using WMSPanel control API. This native API can be convenient in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards 2019
Streaming Media Europe magazine has started a vote for European Readers' Choice Awards 2019.Softvelum products have been nominated in 3 categories:Mobile Video App or Solution: Larix BroadcasterServer...
View Article