Remote control for Larix Broadcaster in Larix Tuner

We're glad to announce that we've released Remote control feature set in Larix Tuner for Larix Broadcaster.

AMD Alveo U30 support

AMD Alveo™ U30 hardware acceleration support was added to Live Transcoder.

Read Boosting live transcoding with AMD Alveo U30 on AWS EC2 VT1 with Nimble Streamer article to learn more about setup process.

Larix Tuner is alive!

Softvelum is excited to introduce Larix Tuner, a new web service designed to simplify the management of multiple Larix Broadcaster instances.

Convert DVB subtitles into WebVTT for HLS

Nimble Streamer can now convert DVB subtitles into WebVTT for HLS live streams using image recognition AI.

The blog is moving

A notice to our blog followers.

Starting this month, all our new articles are published at our new blog at Softvelum.com website.

Old articles will remain in this blog and we'll occasionally be updating them once we make changes to our products.

We encourage you to follow us in our social networks: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, join our channel in Telegram and subscribe to our YouTube channel. All our updates from the website, the blog or other sources are announced there.

Follow Nimble Streamer release notes to get our updates first.

DVR in SLDP HTML5 Player

SLDP HTML5 Player can now provide DVR playback with HLS DVR streams from Nimble Streamer.

ABR for WHEP WebRTC

We're glad to announce that we've added adaptive bitrate support into our WebRTC WHEP implementation in Nimble Streamer.

Also read Inside of WebRTC adaptive bitrate streaming algorithm from Softvelum article to learn more about how our ABR works.

New case study: Nimble Streamer powers LiveX and VVCR cloud production

Explore our latest case study to see how Nimble Streamer and LiveX are shaping the future of live video production.

WHEP Load Tester tool to test WebRTC performance

Softvelum team has been implementing various WebRTC features for some time now and you can see results in our WebRTC bundle.

As part of WHEP ABR playback support in Nimble Streamer, we had to create some additional tools in order to test our own solution.

Introducing WHEP Load Tester.

It's a tool for testing WHEP WebRTC playback performance. It launches the simultaneous playback of any number of sessions for a WHEP stream. This way you can test the capacity of your WebRTC WHEP solution and see its performance limits.

Feel free to use it and let us know of your experience and thoughts on it.

libaom-av1 and SVT-AV1 transcoding setup with Nimble Streamer

AV1 format is a promising solution for high-quality efficient video compression.

Live video overlays and videowall with Nimble Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder now allows overlaying video or pictures on top of the video.

Ogg/FLAC support in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer Icecast streaming feature set covers many use cases and supports multiple codecs.

Now Nimble also supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) with Ogg container for Icecast.

SRT multipoint listener in Larix Broadcaster

Larix Broadcaster has various capabilities for SRT streaming including all modes - Caller, Listener and Rendezvous - and a number of SRT parameters.

SRT Listen mode now allows streaming as a multipoint listener on both Android and iOS.

Axinom DRM in Nimble Streamer

Axinom DRM has recently been added to Nimble Streamer DRM bundle.

SLDP is now played on iOS17 iPhones with MMS

Our team introduced SLDP low latency playback protocol several years ago as a replacement for RTMP due to sunset of Flash. It's a WebSocket-based technology which can be played on any browser platform that has MSE. Up until now, this was the reason why SLDP live streams couldn't be played on iPhones since they didn't have MSE, even though, it played on Windows, Linux, macOS and even iPads. The only exception was Opus audio-only playback on iOS.

Now with the latest releases of iOS 17, iPhone iOS has full support for MMS - Managed Media Source - which provides necessary capabilities to make the MSE-based playback possible.

SCTE-35 markers support in Nimble Streamer Playout

We're glad to introduce an update for Nimble Streamer Playout feature (also referred to as a Server Playlist sometimes). It now provides enhanced functionality for SCTE-35 markers insertion through the playlist. Any systems with SCTE35 support can process the Playlist output in order to insert ads. E.g. Nimble Advertizer can do that for you.

Larix Broadcaster on MacOS

We're glad to inform you that Larix Broadcaster for iOS is now available on the latest macOS via the AppStore!

Zixi streaming setup in Nimble Streamer

Zixi is a well-known brand in the broadcasting and streaming industry. It provides a reliable and secure technology to transmit video content, especially in situations where maintaining low latency and high video quality is crucial.

Nimble Streamer provides integration with Zixi Broadcaster in order to create a bridge between the Zixi protocol and all the technologies that are supported by the Nimble Streamer live streaming feature stack. This article describes the technical details of Zixi-Nimble integration.

Widevine DRM support for HLS

Nimble Streamer has extensive DRM support for live and VOD streams. It covers all DRM systems - Widevine, Playready and FairPlay - and multiple DRM management platforms.

Traditionally, HLS streams could only be protected using Apple FairPlay and could only be played on Apple devices.

With recent updates, HLS can now be protected using Google Widevine in addition to FairPlay.

New WebVTT Features: Transcoder Passthrough and Playout Support

We are glad to announce that we added new features to our Nimble Streamer software media server to support WebVTT subtitles. WebVTT is one of the popular formats for displaying timed text tracks in VOD or live streams. Based on the feedback from our customers, we were working on adding WebVTT support for Live Streams.