Softvelum team which operates WMSPanel reporting service continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.
First quarter of 2017 has passed so let's take a look at stats. The media servers connected to WMSPanel processed more than 10 billion connections from 3300+ media servers (operated by Nimble Streamer and Wowza) during past 3 months.
First, let's take a look at the chart and numbers:
In the 4th quarter of 2016 it had being collected from 3200+ servers.
First quarter of 2017 has passed so let's take a look at stats. The media servers connected to WMSPanel processed more than 10 billion connections from 3300+ media servers (operated by Nimble Streamer and Wowza) during past 3 months.
First, let's take a look at the chart and numbers:
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| The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 Q1 |
You can compare that to the picture of 2016 Q4 protocols landscape:
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| The State of Streaming Protocols - 2016 Q4 |
In the 4th quarter of 2016 it had being collected from 3200+ servers.
What can we see?
- HLS is still stable at ~3/4 of all connections, its share is 70%.
- RTMP is at the same level and even increased its share to 12%. Low latency streaming use case still need this protocol.
- Progressive download is 3rd popular at 6%.
- MPEG-DASH overcame HDS, Icecast and MPEG-TS going up by nearly 3 times by views count - it's now 5th popular protocol.
- RTSP and Icecast kept their shares.
So MPEG-DASH is the only protocol which was visibly improving. You can also check December summary of steaming protocols.
