HTTP/2 in Nimble Streamer
The Internet as we know it was created on top of HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1, with HTTP/1.1 being dominant for the last 20 years. The growing demand for new features and capabilities showed several...
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SVT-HEVC H.265 encoding setup in Nimble Streamer Transcoder
Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has support for various codecs using a number of encoding libraries. H.265 (HEVC) encoding has been supported only via NVENC and QuickSync hardware acceleration so we...
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Running encoders in out-of-process mode
Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer allows using a number of encoder libraries for producing output stream content. All encoding activities are performed in the same process with the other transcoding...
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Introducing Apple Low Latency HLS in Softvelum products
The HLS of RFC8216 is currently a de-facto standard for live and VOD delivery. Playlists and chunks delivered over HTTP/1.1 provide the simplicity of implementation, wide platforms availability,...
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The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q4
Softvelum team keeps tracking 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. This...
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As the the year of 2019 is over, we want to recap the most significant products and features which we introduced during past 12 months.We'd like to remind you that you can track all of our latest...
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FFmpeg custom build support in Live Transcoder
Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer supports a variety of decoding, filtering and encoding libraries. All the libraries which we have there were checked for reliability, performance and proper...
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Mobile streaming to DaCast and Akamai
Larix mobile SDK allows publishing live streams from mobile devices to wide variety of destinations like media servers and streaming services. Some destinations require special handling due to...
View ArticleHbbTV MPEG-DASH support in Nimble Streamer
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) has been working with MPEG-DASH for some time by now and Nimble Streamer MPEG-DASH implementation also has that support.To enabled this support, a specific profile...
View ArticleLive Transcoder control API
Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder is well known for its drag-and-drop web UI which allows setting up live stream transformation of any complexity using any browser.However we have a number of users who...
View ArticleFallback of published RTMP, RTSP and Icecast streams
RTMP, RTSP and Icecast live protocols can be pulled by Nimble Streamer for further processing, and in order to improve robustness each pulled stream can have fallback streams. So if a primary stream...
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Synchronized playback on multiple devices with SLDP
Playing a live stream simultaneously on multiple devices often requires synchronized playback.The cases look simple:One big screen shows something and viewers need to have the same audio on their...
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Using Certbot with Nimble Streamer working on port 80
When you start using Certbot with Nimble Streamer, you may face the use case when Nimble Streamer is running on port 80. We'll show how this part can be handled.If you follow this instruction for...
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Glass-to-glass SRT delivery setup
SRT delivery of live streams is gaining momentum as more companies add this protocol support into their products. Being SRT Alliance member, Softvelum provides extensive SRT support in various...
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SLDP Player setup for Android
SLDP Player is an application which allows playing SLDP, SRT, Icecast, RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH on Android device.In this article we'll overview all settings of SLDP Player.You can install it from...
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Building NVENC-only pipeline with Nimble Transcoder
Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer provides wide feature set for transforming live content using both software libraries and hardware acceleration.NVidia NVENC always fully supported in Live...
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The State of Streaming Protocols - 2020 Q1
Softvelum team keeps tracking 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. This...
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This first quarter of 2020 brought a lot of disruption into lives of billions of people. The unprecedented global measures to reduce the harm from pandemic require a lot of businesses to move online,...
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SRT FEC (forward error correction) support in Nimble Streamer
Softvelum is an active adopter of SRT technology and Nimble Streamer has extended support for it.Once of the features introduced in latest SRT library versions is the ability to set custom packet...
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iCloud support and file operations in Larix Broadcaster for iOS
Larix Broadcaster for iOS now has improved capabilities for recording live stream into local files.Here are the options you can use for files storage:Local storage available via MacOS Finder as...
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