2018 summary

The New Year of 2019 is approaching so it's time to look back at what Softvelum has accomplished.
We've had an interesting year as you will find out below.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2018 summary

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

DVR JPEG thumbnails in Nimble Streamer

DVR feature set in Nimble Streamer covers the majority of use cases for streams recording and playback, its setup is described in this article.

Using Amazon CloudFront for SLDP delivery

Live streaming is growing these days and a lot of its use cases require sub-second delay between image capture and its display on user's device.

Playback session authorization in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer paywall features provide a lot of ways of controlling the end-user connection including hotlink protection and pay-per-view which give advanced capabilities but require to sign the stream playback URL on your web page.

DVR MP4 thumbnails in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer software media server has it DVR feature set which covers the majority of use cases for streams recording and playback.

White Paper: Tools for tailor-made streaming

We're excited to announce our latest white paper published at Broadband TV News news web site.

Recent failures analysis

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Softvelum Q3 news

During the third quarter of 2018 our team was working on improving our products.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2018 Q3

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Vote for Softvelum in 2018 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards

The voting for 2018 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards is now opened.

HLS support in Nimble Advertizer SSAI

Earlier this year Softvelum introduced Nimble Advertizer, the Server-Side Ads Insertion (SSAI) framework for Nimble Streamer.

Vote for Softvelum in 2018 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards

UPDATE: The voting for Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards of 2018 is closed.

Softvelum 2018 Q2 news

In Softvelum, we are continuously improving our products and services to protect customers' data, so we've made several major updates in Q2 of 2018.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2018 Q2

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

fMP4 ABR HLS for VOD AVC and HEVC streaming in Nimble Streamer

Last year Apple announced their support for fragmented MP4, or fMP4, in HTTP Live Streaming protocol.

Live Transcoder wildcard scenarios

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer is a powerful tool for easy transformation of your live content.

Softvelum 2018 Q1 news

First quarter of 2018 gave us several great features and updates.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2018 Q1

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Fallback for SLDP old iPhone browsers playback

As you know, SLDP low latency protocol is currently supported in MSE-enabled and MMS-powered web browsers for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and latest iOS, using our freeware web SLDP Player.

Nimble Advertizer inserts video ads into RTMP and SLDP

Softvelum introduces Nimble Advertizer, the Server-Side Ads Insertion (SSAI) framework for Nimble Streamer. This framework allows dynamically insert personalized ads into live streaming content.

NVENC shared context usage

Our Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia GPU decoding and encoding. As you could see from our stress-test article and EC2 tests, Nimble works very good with NVENC.

SRT for mobile streaming on Android and iOS

SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) is a UDP-based protocol that optimizes streaming performance on unreliable networks to deliver the best quality and lowest latency video at all times.

Live streaming SRT encoders

Softvelum’s recent blog post: Reliable Low Latency Delivery with SRT+SLDP on Haivision.com demonstrates the great combination of Haivision encoders and Nimble Streamer media server in a complete end-to-end SRT workflow. SRT, a UDP-based protocol that optimizes streaming performance on unreliable networks, was applied to both contribution and distribution endpoints as part of a video stream workflow, to deliver the best quality and lowest latency video at all times.

Using Amazon EC2 for HEVC transcoding

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder is currently used in various live transcoding scenarios on various platforms. It can be deployed both to bare metal and virtual servers.

Nimble Advertizer: server-side ads insertion for Icecast

Our online audio streaming customers often face the need for monetizing for their online radios and live podcasts. This should be done on a server side to provide best user experience and avoid ad-blockers usage.