December news

The year of 2016 is almost over so prior to posting a year summary we'd like to highlight some significant updates from December.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2016 summary

Softvelum team which operates WMSPanel reporting service continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Adding multiple audio tracks for ABR HLS live streams

Live streaming scenarios of Nimble Streamer include ABR (adaptive bitrate), it can be accomplished via HLS and MPEG-DASH.

Setting constant bitrate for x264 encoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has wide range of transcoding capabilities.

Append metadata to Icecast streams

Nimble Streamer has an extended audio streaming feature set for both live and VOD.

NVENC context cache for Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia video transcoding hardware acceleration.

Specifying decoder threads in Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder allows performing various transformations over incoming video and audio streams.

NVENC decoder in Nimble Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia video transcoding hardware acceleration.