HTTP Live Streaming in Nimble Streamer

Live and VOD HLS in Nimble Streamer

Nimble Streamer has full set of streaming capabilities via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

Live streaming mode for HLS

Nimble Streamer covers variety of live streaming scenarios

Both H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC are supported. Learn more about supported codecs.
MPEG2TS, fragmented MP4 (fMP4) and audio-only MPEG2TS containers are supported.
Full ABR support for available multiple bitrates.
Transmuxing RTMP to HLS from pulled and published streams with ABR HLS capabilities.
Transmuxing RTSP to HLS from pulled and announced streams.
Transmuxing MPEG2-TS to HLS for HTTP and UDP streams.
Using SRT as a source via Listen, Pull and Rendezvous modes.
Using UDT as a source via Listen, Pull and Rendezvous modes.
Pulling HLS to transmux to HLS and any other supported protocols.
CDN-friendly streaming setup is available for outgoing HLS streams.
HolaCDN is one of the networks which use this capability. See their setup doc as example.
If-Modified-Since header is supported for CDNs requests.
SCTE-35 markers passthrough is supported for MPEG-TS and HLS.
HLS AES-128 encryption is available.
Nimble can also be used as a live origin for peer-to-peer streaming infrastructure using MPEG-DASH.

Server-Side Ads Insertion for HLS

Nimble Advertizer supports insertion of advertising into live stream HLS on server side in both video+audio and audio-only modes.
Advertizer allows implementing custom business logic for pre-roll and mid-roll with user-specific customized insertion.
Visit Advertizer page for technical specs and other details.

DVR: Live recording and HLS playback

Nimble Streamer has DVR feature set which allows recording incoming live streams and provide playback via MPEG-DASH and HLS.
DVR HLS supports both HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264) codecs for fMP4 and MPEG2TS containers simultaneously.

Streaming Video-on-Demand via HLS as origin server

Nimble Streamer allows efficiently streaming HLS in VOD mode

Both H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC codecs are supported.
Supported formats: MP4, MP3, AAC, F4V.
Supported MP4 video+audio, video, audio, original MP4, Apple QuickTime extension.
MPEG2TS, fragmented MP4 (fMP4) and audio-only MPEG2TS containers are supported.
MP4 transmuxing to HLS in VOD mode. MP4 is effectively re-packaged with low resource usage.
Remote HTTP storage support allows to effectively stream files, those size exceeds available file system capacity.
Adaptive bitrate support via SMIL files.
Supports audio and video tracks selection for MP4 to VOD HLS transmuxing process.
You can use audio-only and video-only tracks transmuxing.
Subtitles: WebVTT, SRT and TTML are supported for HLS VOD streams for single files and SMILs.
MP3 audio to audio-only HLS efficient transmuxing for decreasing traffic overhead of your internet radio.
Produce audio-only HLS from AAC.
VOD cache is controlled with several parameters like chunks LRU life time and more.
If-Modified-Since header is supported for CDNs requests.
New HLS AES-128 encryption is supported for DRM content protection
Same media files can be used for both HLS and MPEG-DASH VOD transmuxing.

HLS cache-aware re-streaming

If you have a pre-packetized content, you can set up MPEG-DASH re-streaming via your edge servers. Efficient caching will allow saving your resources and bandwidth.
Both live and VOD content can be re-streamed efficiently.