SRT playback support in Larix Player

SRT became a popular transport protocol for live streams secure delivery over unreliable network. Softvelum team has been an active contributor to SRT open source community being part of SRT Alliance.

Softvelum products lead products have full support for SRT:

• Nimble Streamer, a software media server, has rich SRT feature set for receiving and sending live streams via all available transmission modes, including SRT playback stats and protection.
• Larix Broadcaster, Larix Screencaster and Larix SDK allow streaming from Android and iOS to multiple destinations, including those which support SRT input.
• Learn more about glass-to-glass SRT delivery setup with Nimble Streamer, Larix Broadcaster and Larix Player.

Now we introduce SRT playback support in Larix Player for Android and Larix Player for iOS.
SLDP Player for HTML5 does not support SRT yet unfortunately.

SRT playback is available in all 3 modes: Pull (Caller), Listen and Rendezvous.

Mobile Larix Players provide low latency consumption of SLDP, RTMP, Icecast, HLS and MPEG-DASH and adding SRT gives more flexibility, robustness and reliability for end-user last-mile playback.

You can get Larix Player free app in Google Play and AppStore.

If you want to obtained SRT via SRT Pull mode, you need to make sure your source media server or streaming service has SRT Listen mode enabled for the output stream. Read SRT setup description for Nimble Streamer to see how it can be set up there.

The player setup is easy, just open the application, add new connection and enter your stream with srt:// protocol prefix.

The Player supports the following SRT parameters and provides respective fields:

• passphrase and pbkeylen;
• latency and maxbw - read this article for more details about their usage;
• streamid in case your media source supports it.

If you'd like to use Listen or Rendezvous modes, they are set up in a similar way.

Once you save it and tap on it, it will connect to your server and will start playing the stream.

Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions regarding Larix Player.