Nimble Streamer is a software media server developed by Softvelum. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video and audio to desktop computers, mobile devices, internet-connected TV sets, IPTV set-top boxes and other network-connected devices.https://www.sportsvideo.org/2020/03/27/riot-games-keeps-league-of-legends-esports-rolling-with-fully-cloud-based-virtualized-production-workflow/ Its first stable version 1.0.0-1 was released on October, 21st, 2013, with a number of preliminary versions done before that. The release cycle is intensive and introduces a new version every week or less. Nimble Streamer was the finalist in Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards for 2016 as the Best Streaming Innovation The 2016 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Awards Finalists and for 2021 as Hardware/software Server.The Shortlist: 2021 European Readers' Choice Finalists
Usage Nimble Streamer is delivered as an application for Linux and Windows. Nimble Streamer installation Its basic scenarios include streaming from live sources, streaming from VOD files and cache-aware HTTP re-streaming. For live streaming it takes RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS, SRT, UDT and Icecast as input and produces MPEG-DASH,How to encode Multi-bitrate videos in MPEG-DASH for MSE based media players Steamroot blog HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS, SRT, UDT, SLDP and Icecast.Nimble Streamer: Freeware HTTP Streaming Server iptvsaga.com VOD is available as MP4 transmuxing to HLS and MPEG-DASH for both H.265 and H.264. HEVC is also supported for various live streaming protocols output.Live and VOD support for HEVC/H.265 MPEG-DASH output is supported in live and VOD modes.
Low Latency HLS is supported in Nimble StreamerIntroducing Apple Low Latency HLS in Softvelum products starting from version 3.6.3-3.
The developer company is a member of SRT AllianceSRT Alliance Announces 22 New Members as a collaboratorReliable Low Latency Delivery with SRT+SLDP and contributor of open-source implementation of SRT protocol.
NDI is supported as both input and output.NDI support in Nimble Streamer
RIST streaming protocol is supported for input and output.RIST support in Nimble Streamer
The program also covers progressive download for multiple formats, with seeking capabilities for HTML5 and Flash playback.Pseudo Streaming in Flash jwplayer.com HTTP re-streaming covers HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS and SmoothStreaming. It can be used as a source for peer-to-peer media streaming.Configure Nimble Live & VOD streams for optimized use with Streamroot peer-to-peer delivery
Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer supports decoding, filtering and encoding for H.264, HEVC, MPEG2, MPEG4, VP8, VP9 video and AAC, MP3, MP2, Speex, PCM G.711 audio.Review: Softvelum Nimble Streamer Is Flexible and Well-Featured StreamingMediaglobal
A premium add-on Nimble Addenda provides server-side ads insertion with pre-rolls and mid-rolls for HLS, RTMP, SLDP and Icecast live streams, as well as DRM protection with Widevine, PlayReady and FairPlay.
See also Wowza Streaming Engine Adobe Flash Media Server
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