The State of Streaming Protocols - 2018 Q1

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.

Fallback for SLDP old iPhone browsers playback

As you know, SLDP low latency protocol is currently supported in MSE-enabled and MMS-powered web browsers for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and latest iOS, using our freeware web SLDP Player.

Nimble Advertizer inserts video ads into RTMP and SLDP

Softvelum introduces Nimble Advertizer, the Server-Side Ads Insertion (SSAI) framework for Nimble Streamer. This framework allows dynamically insert personalized ads into live streaming content.

NVENC shared context usage

Our Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia GPU decoding and encoding. As you could see from our stress-test article and EC2 tests, Nimble works very good with NVENC.

SRT for mobile streaming on Android and iOS

SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) is a UDP-based protocol that optimizes streaming performance on unreliable networks to deliver the best quality and lowest latency video at all times.

Live streaming SRT encoders

Softvelum’s recent blog post: Reliable Low Latency Delivery with SRT+SLDP on Haivision.com demonstrates the great combination of Haivision encoders and Nimble Streamer media server in a complete end-to-end SRT workflow. SRT, a UDP-based protocol that optimizes streaming performance on unreliable networks, was applied to both contribution and distribution endpoints as part of a video stream workflow, to deliver the best quality and lowest latency video at all times.

Using Amazon EC2 for HEVC transcoding

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder is currently used in various live transcoding scenarios on various platforms. It can be deployed both to bare metal and virtual servers.

Nimble Advertizer: server-side ads insertion for Icecast

Our online audio streaming customers often face the need for monetizing for their online radios and live podcasts. This should be done on a server side to provide best user experience and avoid ad-blockers usage.

Softvelum 2017 summary

Happy New Year!

The State of Streaming Protocols - 2017 summary

Softvelum team continues analyzing the state of streaming protocols.