July news

July was very intense in terms of new features.

The State of Streaming Protocols - July 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Block users by HTTP Referer header via WMSAuth

Nimble Streamer paywall capabilities cover several aspects of content protection. Today we add another enhancement - access control based on HTTP "Referer" header.

Publishing RTMP to Limelight CDN

Our customers use Nimble Streamer for building live streaming networks with their own infrastructure.

AC3 and E-AC3 support in Nimble Streamer transmuxing

Nimble Streamer has extended audio-related features.

VP6, VP8 and VP9 transmuxing in Nimble Streamer

Live transmuxing feature set of Nimble Streamer now covers support for VP6, VP8 and VP9 codecs. Let's see how you can use them in Nimble Streamer.

Manipulating audio channels in Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has rich audio transformation feature set which is based on audio filters and AAC decoding/encoding.

EditListBox MP4 primitive support in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer media server has a wide VOD feature set which includes transmuxing MP4 files into HLS and MPEG-DASH. MP4 is supported as video+audio, video only, audio only, original MP4 and Apple QuickTime extension.

Enable hardware acceleration for Intel Quick Sync in CentOS

Nimble Streamer Transcoder supports Intel® Quick Sync technology for both software video encoding and hardware encoding acceleration using Intel® processors feature set.

Publishing RTMP to Akamai

Even though Nimble Streamer allows building live streaming networks, there are cases when some external CDN needs to be used to provide additional geo coverage and off-load your network during peaks.