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Before getting into products summary, let's take a look at
the State of Streaming Protocols for 2016. It shows current status of streaming technologies and compares it to the data back from 2015.
Now, let's see what was new in our products set.
Nimble Streamer
Our flagship product was continuously improved through the year. Here are most notable enhancements from what was implemented.
Nimble Streamer is now available for ARM architecture and its installation packages are built for for Raspberry Pi / Orange Pi / Odroid.
Read this page for all details regarding Nimble Streamer embedding capabilities.
Transmuxing engine was improved to improve performance and
take more codecs as input. New codecs include H.265, VP6, VP8 and VP9 as video input with AC3, E-AC3, Speex and PCM G.711 for audio input. This gives more capabilities for broadcasters who receive media from various source and want to bring it to the internet viewers.
Icecast transmuxing was also added into common engine and now it allows taking AAC audio from any input stream and deliver it both as playback stream and as republished stream. You can also define metadata for any outgoing Icecast stream. Read more about current
audio streaming feature set here.
DVR feature set was also improved through the year to improve performance and also get timeshift scheduled recording.
Subtitles support was added for
VOD streaming to follow with multiple customers requests.
Nimble control API was significantly improved, it now covers full set of operations that are available via web UI. Also, Nimble
status native API was updates with new calls.
Server control capabilities can now be
granted to non-admin users by account administrators.
Paywall framework for Nimble Streamer was also improved with new blocking capabilities: by User agents and by Referer HTTP headers.
One more significant feature is
Publish Control Framework. It allow setting full control over RTMP and RTSP streams publication process - you can apply your own business logic to any incoming streams. This is especially useful for people who create their own mobile broadcasting services as they need to find a way to control their content contributors.
Live Transcoder
We had many questions from our customers about content transformation in Nimble Streamer - like changing resolution, bitrate, graphics overlay and many other. So after technical and
legal research, we've released
Live Transcoder. It's a premium addition for freeware media server available via
license subscription.
It supports multiple video and audio codecs for decode and encodes it into H.264/AAC output streams with codecs passthrough option.
After the content is decoded you can also apply wide variety of FFmpeg filters to transform the content as you need for your live stream. This includes changing the resolution, bitrate, profile, applying graphics overlay, adding picture-in-picture video and much more.
All operations are performed via excelled drag-n-drop web UI,
you can check this playlist of videos to see it in action.
Besides software decoding and encoding, Live Transcoder supports
Intel QuickSync and
NVidia GPU hardware acceleration technologies. This allows combining flexible filtering, excellent UI and best hardware transcoding technologies into a single powerful product.
Visit
Live Transcoder website to learn more about its capabilities.
Mobile SDK
Larix mobile broadcasting SDK was extremely popular during this year.
We improved feature sets for both iOS and Android to add highly required features - you can see list of
major features here and also check
Larix Broadcaster to see them in action.
After multiple requests we've released our
mobile streaming SDK for Windows Mobile platform along with Larix Broadcaster WinPhone version. So now our SDK covers all popular mobile platforms.
We also used our streaming library in new app called
Larix Screencaster - it's an Android application that allows streaming the content of your screen. This is helpful for game streamers, educators and all those who need to share their device screens to wide audience.
You can obtain latest SDKs using this
purchase page in just a couple of steps .
WMSPanel
Our
reporting and control panel was also improved with a new set of metric -
Unique visitors. It allows calculating how many actual users were viewing your content within each slice and each file or stream in case of Deep stats usage.
WMSPanel stats API was also improved to return all available metrics with more convenient methods.
These are the basic updates but we've done a lot more than that - check our blog and website for more. You can use the new
Search page which covers our resources.
We'll continue keeping you up-to-date with all new features and improvements.
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