FFmpeg custom build support in Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer supports a variety of decoding, filtering and encoding libraries.

2019 summary

As the the year of 2019 is over, we want to recap the most significant products and features which we introduced during past 12 months.

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2019 Q4

Softvelum team keeps tracking the state of streaming protocols.

Introducing Apple Low Latency HLS in Softvelum products

The HLS of RFC8216 is currently a de-facto standard for live and VOD delivery.

Running encoders in out-of-process mode

This feature has been deprecated, please use the Out-of-Process Mode of Transcoder that we released in 2023. Please refer to this article for usage details

SVT-HEVC H.265 encoding setup in Nimble Streamer Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has support for various codecs using a number of encoding libraries.

HTTP/2 in Nimble Streamer

The Internet as we know it was created on top of HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1, with HTTP/1.1 being dominant for the last 20 years.

Wowza Streaming Engine and WMSPanel agent upgrade

Wowza Media Systems has just released Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.7.8 which has a big set of major updates.

WMSPanel API to control push API

Nimble Streamer provides various push APIs which allow controlling the streaming process such as Publish control, Pay-per-view or playback authorization.

SRT playback support in Larix Player

SRT became a popular transport protocol for live streams secure delivery over unreliable network.