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

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

Before moving to our features and updates, check Video Delivery Landscape of 2021 created and maintained by Divitel, we are excited to see Softvelum there.

Also take a look at our latest Secure your account in 3 easy steps article showing how you can use users management, two-factor authentication and cloud server backup to make sure WMSPanel is secured from multiple directions.

Nimble Streamer

A number of updates about our software media server were released.

• Nimble Advertizer is now able to serve per-session ads using your own session handler. It allows making per-session ads insertion for each individual user by using customer-side session handler. You can also now get per-session statistics to accumulate ads insertion metrics for advertisers' confidence. Read this article to learn more.
• Nimble DVR now has SCTE-35 support. Just enable "Keep SCTE-35 markers" option to allow recording SCTE-35 markers from incoming stream into DVR. Once HLS DVR is played, those markers are streamed along with the content.
• Speaking of DVR, check our new DVR setup tutorial video on Softvelum YouTube channel.
• KLV metadata is now supported in Nimble Streamer, read this article for more details.
• SRT: we've updated libsrt to the latest 1.4.3 version for Nimble Streamer SRT package. You can now use custom parameters local_ip  and local_port in Push mode. Read our main SRT setup article to see other details.
• Also check ATEM Mini streams RTMP to Raspberry Pi with Nimble Streamer to make SRT output - an interesting video from our user shows Nimble in action for SRT streaming.
• Larix Grove URL and QR code can be generated in Nimble Streamer / Live streams settings under Global, Applications and Interfaces tabs to make RTMP and RTSP ingest, and also under and MPEGTS In tab for SRT and RIST. This way you can easily test your Nimble Streamer publishing settings with Larix Broadcaster even easier.
• Zabbix: last but not least, we've released templates and configs for Zabbix monitoring of Nimble Streamer and SRT streams. System administrators can now add their media server to their Zabbix to keep tracking live streaming parameters of Nimble instances as well as SRT-specific stats.
• We've also added peak daily connections as part of daily stats in WMSPanel.
• WMSPanel now shows NVidia GPU stats and average RAM cache in each server details.

Mobile products

This week we'll release SDK updates for our mobile products - Larix Broadcaster and Larix Player.

• Image overlays are now available in Larix Broadcaster. Take a look at our video tutorial showing overlays in Larix for iOS. The same update has been released for Larix Broadcaster for Android.
• We've also introduced stand-by mode in Larix Broadcaster. When the stream hasn't been started, just long tap on Start, this will start stream in pause mode, waiting to start with the camera image. You may check if your stream is fine and a separate set of overlays can be mapped onto stand-by. Once the scene is all set, just tap the button to start.
• Using the Larix Broadcaster App with Magewell Pro Convert Decoders and Using Magewell Ultra Encode with the Larix Player App - these two articles show SRT streams delivery between Magewell hardware and our mobile apps.
• Streaming to Twitch using Larix Broadcaster: new quick tutorial shows steps to start your stream easily.
• Streaming to VK.com - our video tutorial in Russian shows live streaming from Larix Broadcaster to Russia's most popular social network.
• How to: mobile reporter a video tutorial by Michael Garanin shows SRTMiniServer interacting with Larix Broadcaster via Talkback.
• You can check docs reference page for more articles and videos about our mobile products.

We'll release related mobile SDKs' updates within a few days.

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