Softvelum 2017 summary

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The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 summary

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Mobile SDKs update for November 2017

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DVR for fMP4 HLS with HEVC and AVC in Nimble Streamer

As our customers already know, Apple announced the support for fragmented MP4, or fMP4, in HTTP Live Streaming protocol.

fMP4 HLS ABR - live AVC and HEVC streaming in Nimble Streamer

Recently Apple announced the support for fragmented MP4, or fMP4, in HTTP Live Streaming protocol.

Publishing stream to Facebook Live

Nimble Streamer allows publishing live streams to various types of destinations, like other media servers, CDNs, YouTube or Twitch.

DVR timeline in Nimble Streamer

As most of our customers already know, DVR feature set in Nimble Streamer allows recording any incoming live streams and provide playback capabilities for them. It has time range selection and other features.

Troubleshooting Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer is being used by various companies around the globe in many live streaming scenarios.

Softvelum 2017 Q3 news

Third quarter of 2017 is now over so it's time to make a summary of what our team has accomplished.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 Q3

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

Two-factor authentication in WMSPanel

Softvelum team is continuously improving the security and reliability of our products.

ABR live streaming setup

Nimble Streamer has wide Live streaming feature set which includes receiving streams via various protocols and generating output streams.

Splash image, MP3 and other settings of SLDP HTML5 player

Our company keeps improving HTML5 player for our low latency protocol - SLDP.

Review: Softvelum Nimble Streamer Is Flexible and Well-Featured

Recently Jan Ozer, a leading expert on H.264 encoding for live and on-demand production, and a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, has published a full review our Live Transcoder:

Review: Softvelum Nimble Streamer Is Flexible and Well-Featured

The overall impression is very good although he found some things to improve in our products.

We'd like to thank Jan for sharing his opinion, it gives us a great feedback and inspiration.

Feel free to share your thoughts in your own blogs, we appreciate any feedback from our users.

Setting UDT in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer doesn't have UDT support any more.

Instead we encourage live streaming community to use SRT - Secure Reliable Transport - a UDP-based protocol for low latency live streams delivery with error recovery and other high-reliability features.

Nimble Streamer has full support for SRT protocol from both sending and receiving sides, as Softvelum team is an active participant of SRT community.

Use SLDP player latency tolerance against environment glitches

Our company keeps improving new real-time low latency protocol called SLDP.

Using offset to decrease start time (zap time) in SLDP player

Recently we introduced new real-time low latency protocol called SLDP.

VP8 and VP9 support in SLDP HTML5 player

Our customers keep adding our new real-time low latency protocol SLDP into their streaming workflows as it allows sub-second delay for live streaming delivery. Some basic usage of SLDP protocol is described in this article which describes typical usage scenarios.

Publishing stream to Periscope

RTMP republishing is widely used by Nimble Streamer users to deliver live streams to various types of destinations, including other media servers, CDNs, YouTube or Twitch.

Transcoding VP8 and VP9 in Nimble Streamer

VP8 and VP9 are open and royalty free video coding formats developed by Google. Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder now supports these protocols transcoding in addition to already supported VP8/VP9 transmuxing feature set.

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Setting SRT in Nimble Streamer

Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) is a transport technology that optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable networks. It's applied to contribution and distribution endpoints as part of a video stream workflow to deliver the best quality and lowest latency video at all times.

2017Q2 news

Second quarter of 2017 is over so it's time to see what our company has been doing.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 Q2

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

FAQ: SLDP tips and troubleshooting

Our new real-time low latency SLDP protocol is expanding among our customers so we get more questions regarding its usage.

SLDP Player: iOS SDK for RTMP and SLDP playback

Our company is continuously improving its mobile solutions.

SLDP proprietary streaming protection

Our company has released SLDP - the low latency real-time streaming protocol. It allows delivery of media with sub-second latency at the end-users' devices.

FAQ: Larix mobile broadcasting SDK

The content of this article has been permanently moved to Larix FAQ page on Softvelum website.

HEVC support in Nimble Streamer Transcoder

HEVC (H.265) is a high-efficiency codec, best fit for high resolution video like HD, 4K and 8K streaming.

Intel Quick Sync H.265 encoder parameters in Live Transcoder

Intel® Quick Sync technology provides efficient encoding capabilities.

NVidia NVENC settings for H.265 in 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.

Using SLDP with Nimble Streamer

Recently we introduced new real-time low latency protocol called SLDP. It allows sub-second delay for live streaming delivery for the cases when it's truly important.

Introducing SLDP

Low latency has been a trending issue during past years as Flash and RTMP are being deprecated by the industry.

FAQ: Why are you better than your competitors?

Our trial users often ask us similar questions like "How are your solutions better than competitors' products?

Encoding to MP3 with Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder

MP3 audio format is widely used besides AAC.

Pulling HLS streams to process

Nimble Streamer has a transmuxing engine which allows taking any stream of any transport protocol in and generate streams in all available protocols as well.

Streams failover hot swap via Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder now supports hot swap capabilities for live streaming scenarios.

Emergency streams hot swap via Live Transcoder

Many of our customers requested us to support hot swap capabilities for live streaming scenarios.

2017Q1 news

First quarter of 2017 was full of updates for all major products of our company.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 Q1

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

VA API (libVA) support in Nimble Streamer

Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a royalty-free API along with its implementation as free and open-source library (libVA).

Nimble Streamer on IBM Power8 platform

Nimble Streamer media server is being developed as a native application for all popular platforms.

Stress-testing NVidia GPU with IBM

Recently we finished extensive testing of latest NVidia Tesla M60 graphic card in IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform to see how much it increases the performance of Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer.

We got excellent results, please read this article for more details:

Stress-testing NVidia GPU for live Ttranscoding

FDK AAC encoder and decoder in Nimble Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has full support for AAC decoding and encoding, along with various audio filters like re-sampling, transrating or audio channels manipulations.

Forward CEA-708 subtitles with Nimble Streamer

Providing subtitles as part of live streaming is important and is required by law is some countries.

Handling live streams timing errors in Nimble Streamer DVR

Sometimes when an MPEG-TS stream is received from media source, it may have some glitches either in video or audio.

Viewing ASN statistics for streaming connections

A number of our large customers build and maintain their own media content deliver networks.

Binding un-synced video and audio sources in Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has wide range of content transformation features which can be used in transcoding scenarios.

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