Passing MPEGTS data intact into MPEGTS, UDP, SRT and RIST

Nimble Streamer MPEG-TS streaming capabilities cover a lot of features such as receiving UDP-based MPEGTS, SRT or RIST and then re-packaging it into other protocols. You may also package it back into MPEGTS and stream out via UDP, SRT, RIST or HTTP MPEGTS.

However there are cases when you need to pass the MPEGTS through Nimble Streamer directly without re-packaging. Like, when the stream has some data that Nimble must keep intact, such as subtitles, metadata, PIDs, multiple tracks etc.

Now you can set Nimble to generate UDP-based output directly from MPEGTS input without additional re-packaging. In addition to that you can generate HTTP-based MPEGTS output.

Let's see how it's done.

We assume that you've already added the incoming MPEGTS streams like it's shown in our MPEGTS setup tutorial article.

We have an input from SRT incoming stream.

With the input available, we can set up all output scenarios.

UDP, SRT and RIST output

Now you need to set up UDP output, so open UDP streaming tab.

We've added the SRT output based on SRT streaming capabilities input so we'll add UDP output, using original SRT stream to pass it through.

Click on Add UDP setting and enter your destination IP address and port.

In addition to that, click on Raw MPEGTS source radio button, then select the input you'd like to use via Source dropdown.

We've selected our SRT input and saved settings.

In the list of UDP streams you'll see the Source streams column to have a respective input.

HTTP-based MPEGTS output

The same approach can be applied to general MPEGTS output.

Go to MPEGTS Out tab and click on Add outgoing stream.

In the setup dialog, choose Raw MPEGTS source and select the existing source from the list.

That's it, once you save setting, it will be applied within a few seconds and you'll be able to use MPEGTS HTTP output as bypass. As per above screenshot, the URL will look like https://nimble_server_ip_or_domain/live/mpegts/mpeg.2ts

Notice that in in this mode, you may have HTTP MPEGTS output only. Nimble doesn't process this stream, hence no Transcoder cannot be used.

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Related documentation

MPEG-TS feature set, MPEGTS setup tutorial, SRT support in Nimble Streamer