Handling session IP change in Nimble Streamer
Nimble Streamer uses sessions to track users' stats as it's important to see how the content is consumed. It's used in every end-user connection unless you use HTTP origin feature to remove the session...
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Constant bitrate and mux rate in UDP streaming
Nimble Streamer has wide feature set for MPEG2TS streaming. This includes full UDP support to allow Nimble Streamer receive and send content via that protocol.Streaming without bitrate setupWhen you...
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Using Certbot with Nimble Streamer
Certbot is a popular tool for working with Let's Encrypt certificates. Since Nimble Streamer has full support for SSL-protected streaming let's see how you can use Certbot with Nimble Streamer for your...
View ArticleABR in SLDP real-time streaming
Streaming media industry currently moves away from RTMP protocol to other real-time streaming technologies due to its future decline. The next generation of technologies tries not just to replace the...
View ArticleTrigger SCTE-35 marker insertion into live stream
Nimble Advertizer has wide variety of options to insert ads, including inserting ads per SCTE-35 markers. So if your original stream has those markers and your Advertizer is set up to trigger ads for...
View ArticleLive Transcoder upgrade
Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder was released in early 2016 and since then it has got many useful features which our customers use widely. The core technology of the Transcoder combines both Softvelum...
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Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards 2019
Streaming Media Europe magazine has started a vote for Readers' Choice Awards 2019.Softvelum products have been nominated in 6 categories:Analytics/Quality of Service Platform - Softvelum...
View ArticleNVidia drivers upgrade issues
Recently some of our Live Transcoder NVENC users have faced specific problems with NVidia usage so we'd like to draw your attention to this cases.NVENC is a technology which combines capabilities of...
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Processing DVB subtitles in Nimble Streamer and Transcoder
DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) subtitles are used for media streaming from various sources via MPEG2TS and HLS. Nimble Streamer allows transferring DVB subtitles from incoming streams to its...
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Forwarding RTMP Icecast metadata through Live Transcoder
RTMP protocol has the ability to carry Icecast metadata. Nimble Streamer can forward that metadata into output stream when transmuxing from RTMP to Icecast. However some scenarios may require Live...
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Generating Icecast metadata from RTMP
Nimble Streamer can re-package incoming RTMP stream into outgoing Icecast stream, it's part of our extensive audio streaming feature set. RTMP protocol has the ability to carry Icecast metadata and...
View ArticleLarix Screencaster for iOS - live streaming from any app
Softvelum provides a number of solutions for mobile streaming and playback.Today we introduce Larix Screencaster for iOS.Larix Screencaster application allows capturing the content of user device and...
View ArticleManual ingest of Icecast metadata into RTMP via API
Nimble Streamer can re-package incoming RTMP stream into outgoing Icecast stream, it's part of our extensive audio streaming feature set. Besides just processing an Icecast stream, Nimble Streamer can...
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The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q3
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 Q3 summary
This quarter our team kept improving our existing products and rolling out new ones.Vote!First, our team would like to ask you to vote for Softvelum products in Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards...
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Stream availability push API notification
Nimble Streamer provides a variety of APIs and frameworks, including Publish control, Pay-per-view and playback authorization framework, along with other solutions.Now this tool set has event...
View ArticleEnable hardware acceleration for Intel Quick Sync on Ubuntu
Nimble Streamer Transcoder supports Intel® Quick Sync technology for encoding acceleration using Intel® processors feature set. Nimble Streamer allows using Quick Sync as AVC/H.264 video encoder in...
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SRT playback support in SLDP Player
SRT became a popular transport protocol for live streams secure delivery over unreliable network. Softvelum team has been an active contributor to SRT open source community being part of SRT...
View ArticleWMSPanel API to control push API
Nimble Streamer provides various push APIs which allow controlling the streaming process such as Publish control, Pay-per-view or playback authorization.Typically you set those APIs settings via web UI...
View ArticleWowza Streaming Engine and WMSPanel agent upgrade
Wowza Media Systems has just released Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.7.8 which has a big set of major updates. Softvelum has a wide feature set for this media server so we keep our software...
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