2019 summary

As the the year of 2019 is over, we want to recap the most significant products and features which we introduced during past 12 months.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q4

Softvelum team keeps tracking the state of streaming protocols.

Introducing Apple Low Latency HLS in Softvelum products

The HLS of RFC8216 is currently a de-facto standard for live and VOD delivery.

Running encoders in out-of-process mode

This feature has been deprecated, please use the Out-of-Process Mode of Transcoder that we released in 2023. Please refer to this article for usage details

SVT-HEVC H.265 encoding setup in Nimble Streamer Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has support for various codecs using a number of encoding libraries.

HTTP/2 in Nimble Streamer

The Internet as we know it was created on top of HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1, with HTTP/1.1 being dominant for the last 20 years.

Wowza Streaming Engine and WMSPanel agent upgrade

Wowza Media Systems has just released Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.7.8 which has a big set of major updates.

WMSPanel API to control push API

Nimble Streamer provides various push APIs which allow controlling the streaming process such as Publish control, Pay-per-view or playback authorization.

SRT playback support in Larix Player

SRT became a popular transport protocol for live streams secure delivery over unreliable network.

Enable hardware acceleration for Intel Quick Sync on Ubuntu

Nimble Streamer Transcoder supports Intel® Quick Sync technology for encoding acceleration using Intel® processors feature set.

Stream availability push API notification

Nimble Streamer provides a variety of APIs and frameworks, including Publish control, Pay-per-view and playback authorization framework, along with other solutions.

2019 Q3 summary

This quarter our team kept improving our existing products and rolling out new ones.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q3

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Manual ingest of Icecast metadata into RTMP via API

Nimble Streamer can re-package incoming RTMP stream into outgoing Icecast stream, it's part of our extensive audio streaming feature set.

Larix Screencaster for iOS - live streaming from any app

Softvelum provides a number of solutions for mobile streaming and playback.

Generating Icecast metadata from RTMP

Nimble Streamer can re-package incoming RTMP stream into outgoing Icecast stream, it's part of our extensive audio streaming feature set.

Forwarding RTMP Icecast metadata through Live Transcoder

RTMP protocol has the ability to carry Icecast metadata.

Processing DVB and WebVTT subtitles in live streams with Nimble Streamer

Subtitles typically include text information for dialogue, captions, or descriptions, synchronized with the video content.

NVidia drivers upgrade issues

Recently some of our Live Transcoder NVENC users have faced specific problems with NVidia usage so we'd like to draw your attention to this cases.

Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards 2019

Streaming Media magazine has started a vote for Readers' Choice Awards 2019.

Live Transcoder upgrade

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder was released in early 2016 and since then it has got many useful features which our customers use widely.

Trigger SCTE-35 marker insertion by Nimble API

Nimble Advertizer has wide variety of options to insert ads, including inserting ads per SCTE-35 markers.

ABR in SLDP real-time streaming

Streaming media industry currently moves away from RTMP protocol to other real-time streaming technologies due to its future decline.

Using Certbot with Nimble Streamer

Certbot is a popular tool for working with Let's Encrypt certificates. Nimble Streamer has full support for SSL-protected streaming so let's see how you can use Certbot with Nimble Streamer for your convenience.

Constant bitrate and mux rate in UDP streaming

Nimble Streamer has wide feature set for MPEG2TS streaming.

Handling session IP change in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer uses sessions to track users' stats as it's important to see how the content is consumed.

Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards 2019

Streaming Media Europe magazine has started a vote for European Readers' Choice Awards 2019.
At the moment the voting is closed, if you are a voter, you receive an email asking them to to confirm the votes - please confirm it in order for it to be counted!

RTMP re-publishing control API in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Steamer has its own native status and control API which can be used for interacting directly with server instance rather than using WMSPanel control API.

Passing Icecast metadata in Nimble Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer has an advanced audio streaming feature set. Live audio streaming covers transmuxing of Icecast pulled and published streams, audio transcoding in Nimble Live Transcoder and ads insertion via Nimble Advertizer.

2019 Q2 summary

Our team has been working on improvements through Q2 of 2019 so let's see what we've accomplished.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q2

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Efficient usage of SRT latency and maxbw parameters

We continue educating streaming people on SRT protocol usage.

Inserting ads by Nimble Advertizer using SCTE-35 markers

Nimble Advertizer is a server-side ads insertion framework for Nimble Streamer.

Streaming from Larix Broadcaster to YouTube Live

YouTube Live became extremely popular lately and many users of Larix Broadcaster for Android and iOS and Larix Screencaster for Android also started publishing live video there.

Streaming from Larix Broadcaster to Facebook Live

Facebook Live became extremely popular lately and many users of Larix Broadcaster for Android and iOS and Larix Screencaster for Android also started publishing live to Facebook.

SRT sender max bandwidth

SRT is a streaming protocol which adapts to the network conditions, helps compensate for jitter, bandwidth fluctuations and has error recovery mechanism to minimize the packet loss.

SRT packet loss is fixed

Softvelum team is an active participant of SRT community and we follow up with all updates as well as contribute to the code base.

HEVC over RTMP via non-standard extension

UPDATE:

Enhanced RTMP spec allows for publishing HEVC and AV1 encoded content via RTMP. So we support that in both Nimble Streamer server and in Larix Broadcaster app. We recommend using it instead of the spec described below.

SCTE-35 markers forwarding and passthrough

Nimble Streamer covers wide variety of live streaming scenarios for numerous use cases.

2019 Q1 summary

The first quarter of year 2019 brought a new product and several interesting updates by Softvelum team.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q1

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Server tags in WMSPanel

WMSPanel has been the best web service for media servers reporting for many year so far.

DVR export to MP4

DVR feature set in Nimble Streamer provides streams recording and playback.

RTMPS: SSL support for RTMP in Nimble Streamer

Today RTMP still remains the de-facto industry standard for publishing of live streams from encoders and their delivery between nodes over the Internet.

Introducing Qosifire - live streaming quality monitoring service

Live streaming is an industry which is rigorous to quality.

Get ready for Flash farewell and RTMP decline

In 2017 Adobe announced that they would stop supporting the Flash technology at the end of 2020.