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.