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.

November news

We've made a few significant updates in November.

The State of Streaming Protocols - November 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Processing published Icecast in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer has wide audio streaming feature set which includes both live and VOD.

Nimble Streamer control for non-admin WMSPanel users

Nimble Streamer can be controlled in two ways. First one is to change config files, the second one is to use WMSPanel as a web UI.

October news

October brought some good news for our customers.

The State of Streaming Protocols - October 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

RTMP delayed pull buffer improvements

RTMP-related feature set of Nimble Streamer allows creating various streaming scenarios with your infrastructure.

Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Award 2016

As you know, Streaming Media is the leading magazine in the online streaming industry. We've been visiting their conferences - Streaming Media East and Streaming Media West - for several years so far and we're excited to participate in their activities.

Now we're honored to have Nimble Streamer as a finalist of Streaming Media Europe Readers Choice Awards in the "Best Streaming Innovation" nomination!

Thanks to everyone who voted for us!

NVidia NVENC settings in Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder

NVidia® Products with the Kepler, Maxwell and Pascal generation GPUs contain a dedicated accelerator for video encoding, called NVENC, on the GPU die.

Re-sampling audio with Nimble Streamer Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder gives wide range of capabilities to transform both video and audio.

Audio-only and video-only transmuxing for HLS and MPEG-DASH via SMIL files

Nimble Streamer handles VOD streaming in various ways, one of them is doing ABR VOD via HLS and MPEG-DASH streaming protocols using SMIL files.

September news

This month we were concentrated on two major directions - improvements and bugfixing in Nimble Streamer and mobile SDK development.

The State of Streaming Protocols - September 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Read-only DVR playback and scheduled recording

Nimble Streamer DVR is a popular feature for those of our customers who handle live streaming. New use cases are being covered per requests of clients all the time.

August news

In August we've added a few interesting features.

The State of Streaming Protocols - August 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Subtitles support for VOD HLS and VOD MPEG-DASH

Nimble Streamer has wide VOD streaming feature set which covers many HLS-related capabilities like ABR streaming or multiple tracks support and multiple MPEG-DASH features.

Server logging in Nimble Streamer

As any server software, Nimble Streamer allows tracking its behavior and performance via logging. You can have access logs and also have general server logging.

PCM G.711 audio support in Nimble Streamer

Recently we were extending codecs coverage for Nimble Streamer.

Today we introduce support for PCM, or G711, (both a-law and μ-law) audio codec.

It can be used as input for Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder for further transformation into AAC.

It also can be used for RTSP transmuxing - it will be passed through from input to output.

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.

June updates

This month we've released new mobile screencasting app and introduced Quick Sync Video in our Transcoder as well as some other features.

The State of Streaming Protocols - June 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

AAC LATM header support in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer has wide variety of audio-related features and advantages. This includes processing of AAC in any available incoming stream regardless of its protocol.

Enable hardware acceleration for Intel Quick Sync in Windows

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

Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder parameters in Nimble Streamer Transcoder

Intel® Quick Sync technology provides efficient encoding capabilities. It allows using hardware acceleration for video encoding using Intel® processors feature set and software encoding in all other cases.

Compensating the interleaving in Nimble Streamer

Each live stream includes 2 parts - video and audio.

Nimble Streamer Transcoder advantages over FFmpeg

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer is a highly efficient product which uses best available transcoding techniques combined with our own know-hows and researches.

Larix Screencaster setup and usage

Our team is continuously improving mobile streaming products set.

May news

This month we're glad to introduce important updates for our products.

The State of Streaming Protocols - May 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

De-interlacing in Transcoder for Nimble Streamer

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer allows using various FFmpeg filters for transforming content.

Encoder settings: bitrate, profile, key frame alignment and more in Nimble Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has wide range of transcoding capabilities which include H.264 encoding.

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer

Our company introduces Transcoder for Nimble Streamer.

April news

April gave updates on mobile streaming as well as introduction for upcoming Transcoder products.

The State of Streaming Protocols - April 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

March updates

Match has just a few updates while we're working on the next breakthrough features. However some of these news are highly awaited by our customers.

The State of Streaming Protocols - March 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Time-shifted streaming with Nimble Streamer DVR

As you already know, live streaming features set of Nimble Streamer includes DVR - recording and playback capabilities for live streams.

Unique visitors metric in WMSPanel

When streaming live or VOD, any content provider needs some major metrics like views count, traffic, geography etc.

February updates

February brought not numerous but interesting updates.

The State of Streaming Protocols - February 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Adding pre-configured Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer can be deployed and manipulated in various ways for various platforms.

HEVC H.265 live streaming in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer has a huge feature set for live streaming.

January news

In the first month of 2016 we continued improving our products.

The State of Streaming Protocols - January 2016

WMSPanel team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Publishing RTMP with stream parameter to EdgeCast

RTMP republishing is a popular feature within Nimble Streamer RTMP capabilities.

Embed Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer is a high-performance software with small resources usage.  It's the most efficient software media server on the market.
It is created using C++ programming language and has its own code base with no third-party libraries. This all makes it easy to port to any desirable platform. 

Currently it's running on Linux, Windows, Mac and Raspbian - see full list here. This means it's available on x64 and ARM architectures. Small 265MB RAM Raspberry hardware can run it smoothly.

With low resource requirements and support for ARM and x64, Nimble Streamer can be potentially used on any modern platform to create a media streaming device of any size, shape and characteristics. That device would have all features needed to handle various multimedia tasks.

To see how you can use Nimble for embedding, please read this dedicated page.

Block user agents from viewing streams via Nimble Streamer

WMSAuth paywall framework is very popular among Nimble Streamer customers as it's a proven solution for basic content monetization.

Year of 2015 overview

The new year of 2016 has begun so it's time for us to look back at what was done in the year of 2015.