Softvelum Low Delay Protocol
Low latency is an important issue for live streaming industry. Many use cases need lowest possible delay in delivery, such as security, online chats, gaming, bidding and more.
Currently RTMP is the leading technology for providing low latency playback. However, Adobe will stop support for Flash technology in 2020 which will cause the RTMP playback decline. With Flash and RTMP being declined by the industry, there is a need for real-time delivery protocol supported on multiple platforms.
Softvelum introduces SLDP - a last-mile delivery protocol to provide sub-second delay between media server output and user playback.
- SLDP is based on WebSockets for transmission over HTTP/HTTPS.
- Sub-second delay between origin and player.
- Codec-agnostic - you can stream H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8 and VP9 to the platforms which support the playback.
- Real-time adaptive bitrate (ABR) is supported to allow switching channels nearly instantly. It takes just a GOP time to start new rendition playback.
SLDP ads insertion live demo
Here you can play SLDP live stream with ads insertion in our free HTML5 player.
Find out more on Nimble Advertizer Live Demo page.
Transmuxing and transcoding for SLDP
Nimble Streamer takes most popular protocols as input for further processing. They are
RTMP,
RTSP,
MPEG-TS,
SRT,
HLS,
Icecast and SHOUTcast.
Once the data is received it can be
transmuxed
into all supported
live streaming
protocols which include SLDP among others.
Server passes though the content without changes in case of transmuxing, so whatever the original protocol carries, it will be brought via SLDP to a client.
Live Transcoder can be used in this pipeline in cases when some content transformation is needed. This might be downscaling for ABR, filtering, re-sampling, changing profile or whatever else is needed. Transcoder produces H.264 or H.265 (HEVC) video with AAC or MP3 audio so the target platform should be able to play that.
If the ABR SLDP stream is produced, each single bitrate stream within ABR stream may use its own codec or different profile of the same codec. So your FullHD streams may use high profile and other lower resolution streams will use H.264 baseline.
SLDP setup in Nimble Streamer
From scenarios setup perspective, SLDP is just one more protocol in our bundle.
Use this article
as a setup reference and
this FAQ
for some specific details.
Amazon CloudFront
has full support for WebSockets which means SLDP can be delivered via CloudFront network seamlessly.
Take a look at
CloudFront setup for SLDP delivery
to learn more about proper settings.
Also, learn more about ABR streams setup for Nimble Streamer output and real-time ABR setup for SLDP.
Browser support
SLDP can be played in
HTML5 browsers
with MSE on support using
SLDP HTML5 player.
You can also add playback to your own players using
JavaScript SDK.
Mobile support
Mobile SDKs for
Android and iOS
are available for adding playback capabilities to your own apps. This includes SLDP and RTMP support.
Visit our SLDP players page
to see what you can use on client side.
Server-Side Ads Insertion
Nimble Advertizer
supports inserting of advertising into SLDP live streams on server side. This means you can have ads in your SLDP streams regardless of the viewer's platform and player.
Advertizer allows implementing your custom business logic for pre-roll and mid-roll with user-specific insertion.
Visit Advertizer page
for technical specs and other details.
Snapshots
Usage snapshots show examples of combined usage of Softvelum products with SLDP technology.
See also:Live streamingAds insertionTranscoderCodecsVideo-on-demandBuilding infrastructureMobile solutionsUsage snapshotsQosifire
Easy installation and upgrade
Nimble Streamer can be installed in a couple of small steps and upgraded to the latest version by running two or three simple commands in console.
Let us know if you need any help and search through our documentation to find more information.
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