2021 summary: Nimble Streamer, WMSPanel, mobile SDK and more

Holiday greetings from Softvelum!

Deliver SRT to multicast UDP MPEG-TS

We have released a new video tutorial about delivery of SRT across servers and transforming the content into multicast UDP MPEG-TS

Improvements in billing mechanics of WMSPanel

Our team has recently made a few updates and improvements for the billing of our customers which will make it easier to handle. Please check what might be useful for you.

Local configuration and ad files support in Nimble Advertizer

Nimble Advertizer has become more flexible with the recent update.

NETINT encoder support in Nimble Streamer Transcoder via custom FFmpeg build

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer supports a number of encoding libraries off-the-shelf which cover most used technologies.

Recording NDI as HLS DVR

We've released a short video tutorial showing a combined NDI and DVR use case.

Converting NDI into DRM-protected MPEG-DASH

We've released a new video tutorial showing a combined NDI+DRM use case.

Web UI for Server Playlist of Nimble Streamer

In our previous Playlist article, we have described a very basic playlist to run a set of files as the only live stream which is easy to write manually.

Q3 news: server playlists, conditional transcoding and more from RCA finalist

Softvelum team was continuously improving products set during Q3, here's what we've got for you this quarter.

Conditional transcoding for ABR

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder allows building transcoding pipelines of various complexity however it used to provide only straight-forward scenarios regardless of incoming stream parameters.

Nimble Streamer is Readers' Choice Awards 2021 finalist

Softvelum team is excited to be among the finalists of 2021 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards in Hardware/software Server category with our Nimble Streamer media server.

Generate NDI stream from local files via Server Playlist

We want to tell you about Server Playlist feature, which lets you create live streams from the video or audio files on your storage.

Best practices for Larix Broadcaster production deployment

Larix Broadcaster is a universal mobile tool which is used in a variety of cases from a single event to complex multi-device production.

Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards 2021

Update: we've become the Finalist in hardware/Software server category, thank you all who voted for us!

Playout - server playlists - in Nimble Streamer

Server playlists feature set of Nimble Streamer allows creating live streams by composing VOD files and live input streams into single playlists.

Q2 2021 news: Advertizer, KLV, Zabbix, Larix overlays

Let's see what Softvelum team has to show from Q2 of 2021.

Zabbix monitoring of Nimble Streamer, SRT streams and NVidia GPU

A continuous monitoring is needed if you want to ensure the correct functioning of any server. Getting basic metrics such as RAM, CPU or bandwidth usage helps rapidly responding to performance issues.

Secure your account in 3 easy steps

WMSPanel cloud control panel provides extended control over your Nimble Streamer server instances.

KLV metadata in Nimble Streamer

KLV is a standard used for embedding meta information, usually into video feeds. Some of our customers use it for their use cases so they've been asking us for its support.

Advertizer per-session ads insertion and stats

Nimble Advertizer is a wide feature set for server-side ads insertion for Nimble Streamer software media server. It allows adding pre-roll and mid-roll ads into live and VOD streams according to customer business logic.

Q1 2021 news: Cloud backups, Advertizer, Talkback, tutorials and more

Softvelum team kept working on products' improvements during Q1 of 2021 so let's see what we've got.

WMSPanel cloud service is the best way to control Nimble Streamer as it provides web UI for operating the vast majority of its features. Nimble settings are defined in the panel and synced up with Nimble instance.

Our customers always needed some way to back up their server settings, so in Q1 we introduced Nimble Cloud Backup. With cloud backups you can save streaming configs of your Nimble Streamer instances into distributed cloud database to improve redundancy. You can do it manually or automatically. If a customer needs to get back to some version of their cloud backup, he or she can restore it within WMSPanel account as a new server instance. After a backup is restored, a customer can initiate respective server instance to obtain these settings from WMSPanel, thus make new server to move into previous state. Learn more about Cloud Backups and try it in action.

Nimble Streamer Advertizer now has VOD server-side ads insertion. At the moment, HLS output with MPEG-TS and fMP4 containers is supported. Take a look at VOD SSAI overview article and also read tech spec page for full details.

We are working on other improvements for server-side ads insertion so stay tuned for updates.

SLDP protocol is actively used by our customers to provide low latency playback, especially after Flash has been officially abandoned and has put RTMP playback at denial. One of the use cases that our customers have discovered is browser-based videowall.

So we've made mosaic videowall demo page which allows playing 4 streams simultaneously. You can make your own mosaic using reference simplified version on our github. You may change it accordingly to make as many players as you need.

This quarter we also posted a number of video tutorials on our YouTube channel.

• Converting NDI to Apple Low Latency HLS. There we demonstrate how you can use Nimble NDI feature set to get NDI input and transform it into Apple Low Latency HLS output. This can be a great case for customers who need to deliver live streams with low latency, check this brief description as well.
• NDI to SRT to AWS Elemental MediaConnect via Nimble Streamer. Amazon recently introduced SRT support in their MediaConnect service. In our video we show how to take NDI input and use SRT feature set to stream live content out into AWS.
• Widevine EZDRM setup in Nimble Streamer. Nimble DRM allows protecting live, DVR and VOD content using Widevine, Playready and FairPlay using various key management providers. This video uses EZDRM to show how easily you may set up Nimble DRM.
• RTMP setup in Nimble Streamer. RTMP feature set is one of the most popular in Nimble Streamer so there we show all major scenarios related to the protocol.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get other upcoming updates.

Larix Broadcaster has got a number of significant updates this quarter.

Larix Broadcaster now supports Talkback, which is the ability to get an audio return feed. So while you generate a stream, you may get audio stream via SRT, RTMP, SLDP or even Icecast. This is a great feature for those creators who need to get a word from their studios while streaming live. Other updates of Larix include SRT Listen and Rendezvous support and some improvements for RIST protocol.

The talkback feature already got some attention. Take a look at How to: mobile reporter video demonstrating SRTMiniServer working with Larix Broadcaster by getting its live stream and returning talk back feed.

Larix Broadcaster SDK for Android and SDK for iOS pages now have architecture overview of Larix Broadcaster to make it easier to understand for beginners. They also refer to apps' sample code available on github.

Larix Player for Android and iOS was also updated with fresh libsrt and got SRT playback in Listen and Rendezvous modes.

You can learn more about Talkback, Larix SDKs updates and other features by reading this blog post.

Also, since we've mentioned MediaConnect, we've made Stream to AWS MediaConnect via SRT from Larix Broadcaster article describing the process in case you need to stream there from mobile.

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NDI to SRT to AWS Elemental MediaConnect via Nimble Streamer

AWS Elemental MediaConnect can now receive SRT streams which means a lot of streaming software is able to deliver content there.

Stream to AWS MediaConnect via SRT from Larix Broadcaster

AWS Elemental MediaConnect recently announced their support for SRT ingest. This makes it capable of receiving streams from all modern encoders, media servers and other SRT-powered software.

Mosaic videowall with SLDP

We've released a demo page with mosaic videowall of SLDP HTML5 players in 2*2 grid.

Converting NDI to Apple Low Latency HLS

Nimble Streamer supports NDI processing to get real-time input and produce multiple output formats. Apple Low Latency HLS is one of the protocols that can be produced from NDI.

Cloud backups of Nimble Streamer configuration

With cloud backups you can save streaming configs of your Nimble Streamer instances into WMSPanel to improve redundancy. You can do it manually or automatically.

Larix SDK 2021-01 releases and tutorials

Softvelum mobile development team has released a major release for our SDKs.

VOD server-side ads insertion with Nimble Advertizer

Nimble Advertizer server-side ads insertion for live streaming has been used by Nimble Streamer customers for quite some time and we continuously improve it.

Larix Talkback

Larix Talkback for audio return feed is now available in Larix Broadcaster for both iOS and Android.