Fallback of published RTMP, RTSP and Icecast streams

RTMP, RTSP and Icecast live protocols can be pulled by Nimble Streamer for further processing, and in order to improve robustness each pulled stream can have fallback streams.

Live Transcoder control API

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder is well known for its drag-and-drop web UI which allows setting up live stream transformation of any complexity using any browser.

HbbTV MPEG-DASH support in Nimble Streamer

Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) has been working with MPEG-DASH for some time by now and Nimble Streamer MPEG-DASH implementation also has that support.

Mobile streaming to Dacast and Akamai

Larix mobile SDK allows publishing live streams from mobile devices to wide variety of destinations like media servers and streaming services. Some destinations require special handling due to authorization or other concerns.

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.