Happy New Year from WMSPanel team

The year of 2013 was full of great events for our team. Let's see what we've got for you this year.

Nimble Streamer on CentOS, Red Hat and Debian

Our team created Nimble Streamer to be installed on Linux OS.

Dispersa: a distributed streams availability check service

WMSPanel team proudly presents a new product for improving streaming media quality of service.

Nimble Streamer edges benchmark

People ask us about the performance metrics of Nimble Streamer.

Citrix acquires Skytide

Dan Rayburn has recently brought interesting news: Citrix Acquires CDN and Service Provider Analytics Company Skytide.

Nimble Streamer overview video

We've shot and released a new video! It's about Nimble Streamer.

WMSPanel community forum is now opened

We are excited to announce that we've launched a company forum!

Playtime statistics for Nimble Streamer

WMSPanel is now able to get statistics about playtime and duration intervals for Nimble Streamer servers.

WMSPanel partners with Vidillion for their Advertising Network Platform

Now it's official: WMSPanel selects Vidillion for their Advertising Network Platform Partner.

WMSPanel at Streaming Media West 2013

The Streaming Media West 2013 conference is over today. We've posted a bunch of photos from there to give some overview of what was happening there during these three days.

Visit our WMSPanel Facebook account to see more pictures.

How to make robust streaming with Nimble Streamer

As we mentioned in the previous post, building robust content delivery network means that the content must be delivered regardless of availability of all servers.

Load balancing and failover with Nimble Streamer

Nowadays HTTP based protocols become more and more popular for many reasons and about a half streaming media has switched to use them by now.

How to stream VOD with Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer is a light-weight HTTP streaming media server.

Geo-location and IP range restriction for Nimble Streamer

This page has been moved to Softvelum website: Geo-location and IP-based restriction in paywall security and control feature set.

Hot-linking protection for Nimble Streamer

This page has been moved to Softvelum website: Hotlink protection in paywall security and control feature set.

Nimble Streamer Slideshare

This article is outdated.

Transmuxing MP4 to HLS for VOD streaming

Nimble Streamer provides wide variety of VOD-related features and capabilities.

Devices and players report in WMSPanel

Streaming media is expanding to a variety of devices these days.

Prototyping HLS VOD for MP4

When our team started working on Nimble Streamer we wanted to concentrate on basic HTTP streaming use cases.

Nimble Streamer disk cache for VOD re-streaming

One of the major use cases for Nimble Streamer is the re-streaming of HLS and Smooth Streaming.

UPDATE: WMSPanel users management

We've released s small update for our users management feature set.

Setting up live stream for Wowza via WMSPanel

Many people who enter the business of media streaming start their way with live streaming.

Running Nimble Streamer on ports lower than 1024

Nimble Streamer is designed to handle HTTP streaming of any kind.

WMSPanel users management

We get requests from media hosting companies which want their clients to have more control over the service functionality.

Lite slice cost reduction

In WMSPanel statistics are collected and accessed via data slices.

Hotlinking and domain lock WMSAuth protection

Protection and restriction against the un-authorized access to the media is crucial for streaming business.

mpeg2ts analysis tool update

Working on Nimble Streamer and also on support of HLS statistics for Wowza, our team is continuously making researches regarding HLS, MPEG2TS, MPEG4.

Custom CSS for white label WMSPanel

WMSPanel is a web service so providing it as a white label branded panel fits web paradigm perfectly.

Re-selling WMSPanel by independent Wowza consultants

Wowza Media Systems uses a industry-proven approach of building its partners ecosystem.

Wowza statistics for clients of CDN services

Content Delivery Networks became the key element of today's streaming infrastructure.

Nimble Smooth re-streaming

Our team is continuously expanding Nimble Streamer capabilities.

Support for Wowza GoCoder

Some time ago Wowza Media Systems released a promising product called GoCoder™.

RTMP and RTSP authentication for Wowza applications

WMSPanel team continuously improves Wowza server management feature set.

White label branded panel via SSL

WMSPanel as white label branded panel provides the ability to present reports and Nimble Streamer control via custom domain with custom logo without mentioning WMSPanel itself.

Nimble HLS and Smooth RAM caching for effective re-streaming

Nimble Streamer was initially designed to cover two basic cases: serve progressive download and re-stream HTTP media protocols, having HLS and Smooth protocols to support first.

WMSPanel products for education

This page is outdated. Please visit our Snapshots page for more details on our products' usage.

UPDATE: High precision report for Wowza

Please read the updated version here: High precision report.

Pay-per-view for Wowza Media Server

This article is out-of-date. We've moved its content to our website:
Pay-per-view framework for Wowza Streaming Engine

Nimble configs explained

UPDATE: General server setting file description is located here.

Stream-based data slices

We introduced data slices concept in late 2011 and changed it to properly cover Wowza Media Server in early 2012.

Wowza and Nimble Streamer daily statistics reporting API

Many customers say that WMSPanel provides excellent reporting.

Wowza application templates

If you intensively work with Wowza applications, you probably have typical settings which you apply to each new app.

Nimble promo site update

We get more and more attention to Nimble HTTP Streamer, our progressive download server with geo-balancing and HLS re-streaming capabilities.

People ask questions, so we answer them and post updates to our documentation. At some point we just had to make update to the web site to reflect current state of the product.

So please welcome the updated website: Nimble HTTP Streamer.

Feel free to address any questions you have, your feedback is very welcomed.

Please also have a look at the following presentation about Nimble.

UPDATE: Wowza server management

We've recently updated our original blog post about Wowza server management.

Wowza Transcoder add-on support

Wowza Media Server has rich capabilities for extending its feature set.

Geo load balancing with Nimble Streamer

UPDATE: WMSPanel team released an article describing the recommended approach to load balancing for HTTP-based protocols like HLS, DASH, Icecast etc.

WMSAuth Wowza bandwidth limitation

Since the introduction of WMSAuth for Wowza, we've been receiving various customers requests about new features.

Improving Wowza end-user reporting experience

A lot of our customers are streaming hosting providers and they use Wowza Media Server to provide quality services for their clients.

Streaming Media East conference notes

Now when I'm finally got back home and have won the jet lag battle, it's time to make some summary of my experience from Streaming Media East 2013 conference.

Progressive download re-streaming

Recently we've introduced progressive download support for Nimble HTTP Streamer.

Nimble pseudo-streaming available

WMSPanel team is excited to announce that Nimble Streamer now supports pseudo-streaming, or progressive download.

WMSPanel architecture overview

This page will be reworked soon.

Speaking your language

This article is outdated.

Spanish translation in online now

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HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS and Smooth re-streaming setup and usage

Nimble Streamer works highly efficient with re-streaming HTTP-based protocols. like HLS, MPEG-DASH, Smooth and HDS re-streaming.

Introducing Nimble Streamer

Today our team is excited to announce a new product. It's called Nimble Streamer and it's a light-weight HTTP edge server.

WMSPanel nominated for Streaming Media European Readers Choice Awards

We're glad to announce that WMSPanel is now the nominee of 2013 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards.

Take a minute to sign up and vote for WMSPanel here:

http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/ReadersChoice/2013/Vote.aspx

You can vote for one nominee in each category, but you're not required to vote in all categories.

Voting will remain open until May 24th, and then the finalists - the top three vote-getters in each category - will be announced on June, 18th. After the voting closes on May 24th, you will receive an email asking you to confirm your vote. Please note that duplicate votes and fake email addresses will be discarded. Only confirmed votes will be counted.  Winners will be revealed at this year's Streaming Forum Event in London on 18 June.

So now have a minute to cast your vote for WMSPanel.

Italian translation is available

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Notifying on publish and un-publish RTMP Wowza streams

WMSPanel agent works closely with Wowza server so we literally feel its pulse.

Wowza Media Server translation

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Improving availability and robustness with DNS failover

WMSPanel gathers data from hundreds of Wowza servers and processes data about hundreds of thousands of streams.

Screencast for data slices and white label

Yes, we have another screen cast out.

Advanced MediaCaster and LiveStreamRecord streams control

A number of our customers were requesting an ability to control Wowza streams via single control panel.

User permissions management

As our data slices concept is being used by larger number of customers, they face the need for extending user permissions settings for their accounts in WMSPanel.

Calculating HLS statistics

From the day 1, WMSPanel for Wowza was supporting all protocols which Wowza handles.

Daily stats review screen cast

Having previous overview screen cast cover Wowza reporting basics of our control panel, we made first detailed description about a day-granulated statistics.

New overview screencast

Check our YouTube Channel to see other videos and subscribe to new upcoming screen casts.

Portuguese translation is available

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Billing your customers with WMSPanel

Those of you who make streaming hosting know that accurate data is very important.

Monitoring media server CPU and RAM metrics

If you're administrating media streaming infrastructure, you probably monitor your system performance all the time.

An inspiring mention of WMSPanel

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