Building NVENC-only pipeline with Nimble Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer provides wide feature set for transforming live content using both software libraries and hardware acceleration.

Troubleshooting Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer is being used by various companies around the globe in many live streaming scenarios.

Review: Softvelum Nimble Streamer Is Flexible and Well-Featured

Recently Jan Ozer, a leading expert on H.264 encoding for live and on-demand production, and a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, has published a full review our Live Transcoder:

Review: Softvelum Nimble Streamer Is Flexible and Well-Featured

The overall impression is very good although he found some things to improve in our products.

We'd like to thank Jan for sharing his opinion, it gives us a great feedback and inspiration.

Feel free to share your thoughts in your own blogs, we appreciate any feedback from our users.

Transcoding VP8 and VP9 in Nimble Streamer

VP8 and VP9 are open and royalty free video coding formats developed by Google. Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder now supports these protocols transcoding in addition to already supported VP8/VP9 transmuxing feature set.

HEVC support in Nimble Streamer Transcoder

HEVC (H.265) is a high-efficiency codec, best fit for high resolution video like HD, 4K and 8K streaming.

Intel Quick Sync H.265 encoder parameters in Live Transcoder

Intel® Quick Sync technology provides efficient encoding capabilities.

NVidia NVENC settings for H.265 in Live Transcoder

NVidia® Products with the Kepler, Maxwell and Pascal generation GPUs contain a dedicated accelerator for video encoding, called NVENC, on the GPU die.

Encoding to MP3 with Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder

MP3 audio format is widely used besides AAC.

Streams failover hot swap via Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder now supports hot swap capabilities for live streaming scenarios.

Emergency streams hot swap via Live Transcoder

Many of our customers requested us to support hot swap capabilities for live streaming scenarios.

VA API (libVA) support in Nimble Streamer

Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a royalty-free API along with its implementation as free and open-source library (libVA).

Nimble Streamer on IBM Power8 platform

Nimble Streamer media server is being developed as a native application for all popular platforms.

FDK AAC encoder and decoder in Nimble Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has full support for AAC decoding and encoding, along with various audio filters like re-sampling, transrating or audio channels manipulations.

Forward CEA-708 subtitles with Nimble Streamer

Providing subtitles as part of live streaming is important and is required by law is some countries.

Binding un-synced video and audio sources in Live Transcoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has wide range of content transformation features which can be used in transcoding scenarios.

Year of 2016 overview

Happy New Year!

Setting constant bitrate for x264 encoder

Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer has wide range of transcoding capabilities.

NVENC context cache for Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia video transcoding hardware acceleration.

Specifying decoder threads in Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder allows performing various transformations over incoming video and audio streams.

NVENC decoder in Nimble Live Transcoder

Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder has full support for NVidia video transcoding hardware acceleration.