Q3 2020 news: NDI in Nimble Streamer, RIST in Larix Broadcaster, SRT in TV Players

Softvelum team keeps improving the products bundle and we'd like to share the most significant updates with you.

Nimble Streamer

Our flagship product has a number of interesting updates.

• NDI is now supported in Nimble Streamer! NDI input/output can be transcoded to/from all supported live streaming protocols like SRT, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-DASH and more. Nimble Streamer can now be used as an efficient bridge between live production environments and global Internet. Read this article and watch this video tutorial for setup details.
• Building Quick Sync-only pipeline with Nimble Transcoder - this article explains how you can utilize full power of Intel Quick Sync for processing your video via hardware acceleration instead of CPU. This is similar to NVidia-based pipelines introduced earlier.
• Starting from Q3 we've stopped making MacOS builds of Nimble Streamer. You can use Docker for that instead. Read Install Nimble Streamer with SRT on MacOS using Docker article and watch video tutorial for more details.
• SRT playback stats and paywall features are now available in Nimble Streamer as part of Addenda license. This makes SRT as convenient from distributor perspective, as any other end-user protocol.
• Instant inactivity disconnect for SRT and other MPEGTS-based streams has been added as well.
• Nimble now allows making thumbnails for live streams in MP4 single-frame format convenient for inserting into web page.
• WMSPanel now allows setting slice-wide permissions. There are cases when you need to define some set of permissions to an entire set of non-admin users, so this can now defined via data slices
• SRT support in OBS Studio brought a lot of new users so we released an article explaining how to set up SRT streaming from Larix Broadcaster to OBS and from OBS to Nimble Streamer.

Larix Broadcaster

Larix Broadcaster was described in a couple of tutorials:

• Amazon Interactive Video Service: Encoder Configuration includes Larix Broadcaster setup details for live streaming from mobile devices 
• Mobile Streaming With Larix Apps and Wowza: a video from Wowza team showing how to stream from Larix Broadcaster to Wowza Engine and Wowza Cloud and play the output streams via Larix Player.

As for new features, we have them as well.

• RIST streaming protocol is now supported for Larix Broadcaster for both Android and iOS. It's built with libRIST version 3.0.0 and uses RIST Main profile. Watch video tutorial showing RIST streaming from mobile.
• Larix Broadcaster now has streaming pause for both Android and iOS. Long tap on Start will pause the stream without disconnecting it, video track will contain a black screen, audio track will contain silence.

Last but not least. We've started to describe our approach to quality assurance of our mobile products in our github Larix testing repo. Here are the areas which we've covered already, more pages are coming soon, as well as new tests for RIST:

• Larix Broadcaster for Android connectivity tests
• Larix Broadcaster for iOS connectivity tests

Larix Player

Larix Player is the new name of our playback solution for Android and iOS formerly known as "SLDP Player". It's capable of SRT playback as well as Icecast, SLDP and other protocols.

• Larix Player free app is available in AppStore and Google Play while Larix Player SDK is available for premium licensing.
• Larix Player is now available in Apple TV / tvOS which means SRT can be played on all Apple devices. Check our Apple developer page for all apps. Watch this video tutorial for setup.
• Larix Player is also available on Android TV. This allows playing SRT on STBs and TVs, as well as creating your own playback apps with our SDK. Visit player page for details.

That's all for now.

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