July 2, 2017

2017Q2 news

Second quarter of 2017 is over so it's time to see what our company has been doing. As you can see below, we've released some new products that might be interesting for you.

Before getting to the updates, here are a couple of announcements you'd like you to take a look at.

First, check our team's opinion on the business competition in our industry. It's an answer to a frequently asked questions so please read it and make your own opinion.

If you plan attending IBC 2017, keep in mind that our team representatives will be visiting the trade show. So if you'd like to meet us, just drop us a note.

As always, take a look at The State of Streaming Protocols for 2017Q2. You'll see a couple of interesting points there.


Also, if you find our products useful, please find some time to vote for Softvelum solutions in European Readers' Choice Awards 2017.

SLDP


Softvelum Low Delay Protocol is a new technology for reducing the latency for last-mile delivery for end-users. It's based on WebSockets for better accessibility. The core features are
  • Sub-second delay between origin and player.
  • Codec-agnostic
  • ABR support
  • HTTP and HTTPS on top of TCP
  • Buffer offset support

Take a look at SLDP usage description and also most frequent questions that show the protocol best practices.
In addition to low latency, SLDP provides great level of live streams protection, read this article for more details.

Server side is support is available in Nimble Streamer while client side is covered by SLDP PlayersWeb player is working in any MSE-enabled web browsers on desktop and connected devices. Android native player is coming soon, while iOS player and SDK are already available and is described below.

Mobile solutions


We've released playback SDK for iOS. You can use RTMP and SLDP playback in your iOS apps. Use this page to subscribe for obtain SDK and get upcoming updates.

SLDP Player sample app is also available in AppStore, you can use it for playing any RTMP and SLDP links. Its sources are also available in iOS SDK.

Larix streaming SDK also has several updates.

First, take a look at mobile SDK FAQ to see answers you might be looking for. It's being updated so if you miss anything - just let us know. 

Limelight has released a how-to about using Larix Broadcaster with its delivery network.

Android and iOS streaming SDKs have several important updates.

iOS got the following

  • Bluetooth support
  • afreeca.tv publish fixed. It requires max bitrate as 2000 Kbps according to service requirements.
  • Connectivity improvements
Android has the same set of updates and features.

You can check all releases' description in these release notes and proceed with subscription here.


Nimble Streamer and Transcoder


Before exposing big updates, here's a feature you were waiting for: HLS input for processing. So now you can pull HLS stream to transmux it to other protocols like RTMP or even use it for further transcoding.

Here are a few big updates.

HEVC transcoding is now available in Live Trasncoder in addition to HEVC transmuxing.

  • You can decode HEVC using NVENC and QuickSync as well as software decoder.
  • Encoding can be done with NVENC and QuickSync.

Read more about NVENC encoding and QuickSync encoder parameters. Also, QuickSync setup description was updated with Media Server Studio 2017.

Speaking of new codecs, Live Transcoder now can encode audio to MP3. So now it's possible to transcode your live audio from AAC, MP3, Speex, PCM and MP2 into MP3.

Read more about codecs support in Nimble Streamer and its Live Transcoder

Other major update for transcoder is streams' hot swap with Live Transcoder. It now allows using the following opposite scenarios:

  • Streams failover hot swap where main stream is backed up by secondary stream in case of publication fail.
  • Emergency swap where main stream is replaced with some replacement stream when it becomes available. This is used in cases like US Emergency Alert System (EAS).

The streams are swapped without streams interruption so user playback will not be affected.

Last but not least: we've added new capabilities to give granulated control to end-users. We've separated control features and you can give access to particular capability. Read this article for details.



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