Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer
Developer(s) WMSPanel
Stable release 2.13.0-4 [1] / January 11, 2016 (2016-01-11)
Operating system Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Raspbian
Type Enterprise and carrier class server software
License Proprietary
Website wmspanel.com/nimble

Nimble Streamer is a freeware media server developed by WMSPanel company.[2] 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. 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 new version every week or less.[1]

Usage

Nimble Streamer is delivered as an application for Linux, Windows and MacOS,[3] with Azure cloud virtual machine as a deployment option.[4] 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 and Icecast as input and produces MPEG-DASH,[5] HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS and Icecast.[6] 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.[7] MPEG-DASH output is supported in live and VOD modes. Also, WMSPanel, the developer company for Nimble Streamer, is an associate member of DASH-IF.[8]

Nimble Streamer also covers progressive download for multiple formats, with seeking capabilities for HTML5 and Flash playback.[9] HTTP re-streaming covers HLS, MPEG-DASH, HDS and SmoothStreaming.

Nimble Streamer can be used as a source for peer-to-peer media streaming.[10]

See also

External links

References

  1. 1 2 http://blog.wmspanel.com/p/nimble-streamer-release-notes.html Product release notes
  2. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wmspanel CrunchBase company profile
  3. ↑ https://wmspanel.com/nimble/install Nimble Streamer installation
  4. ↑ https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/PartnerApps/Smooth-Video-Stream-Brought-to-You-by-Nimble-Streamer-on-Azure Smooth Video Stream Brought to You by Nimble Streamer on Azure
  5. ↑ http://blog.streamroot.io/encode-multi-bitrate-videos-mpeg-dash-mse-based-media-players-22/ How to encode Multi-bitrate videos in MPEG-DASH for MSE based media players
  6. ↑ http://www.iptvsaga.com/nimble-streamer-freeware-http-streaming-server/ Nimble Streamer: Freeware HTTP Streaming Server
  7. ↑ https://wmspanel.com/nimble/hevc Live and VOD support for HEVC/H.265
  8. ↑ http://dashif.org/members/ List of DASH Industry Forum members
  9. ↑ http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1430518-pseudo-streaming-in-flash Pseudo Streaming in Flash
  10. ↑ http://blog.streamroot.io/configure-nimble-streams-optimized-streamroot/ Configure Nimble Live & VOD streams for optimized use with Streamroot peer-to-peer delivery
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 11, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.