Nimble Streamer: Cost-Efficient Streaming Software

Furtree系统, a leader in livestreaming media server software that recently hosted a 流媒体 magazine survey on liverstream趋势，提供三个层次的 其获奖 Softvelum灵活流光.

基本的Nimble Streamer服务器提供了两个关键元素，调查受访者在他们的关键要求中排名很高:直播/传输和视频点播(VOD)功能.

在扩大规模的同时控制成本

furtree赞助的2023年直播技术趋势调查的关键结论之一是，在预算紧缩和交付成本上升的时代，人们对资本支出(CapEx)和运营支出(OpEx)的担忧日益增加.

The good news for current and potential customers is that the base Nimble Streamer package starts at $70 (USD). This basic package includes a single server instance as well as access to WMSPanel functionality, a management platform that helps customers manage multiple Nimble Streamer instances.

Nimble Streamer’s built-in transmuxing—the ability to repackage streaming content from one protocol to another, 在不改变底层内容的情况下，nimble Streamer客户可以利用核心引擎在一个协议中摄取，并通过其他选定的协议输出流，同时避免额外的处理开销.

Adding another server license only costs $50 per month per server, allowing wide flexibility for Nimble Streamer customers to scale up and down with their streaming demands.

两个额外的许可证, each available for $50 per server-license per month, round out additional functionality needed by a key group of our Nimble Streamer users. 其中之一是转码许可, which offers on-the-fly transcoding between various industry codecs, while an extra Addenda license offers digital rights management (DRM), 服务器端广告插入(SSAI), 和先进的SRT功能和更多.

Server instances run on a customer’s hardware, whether they choose server instances on cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure, 或者本地裸机服务器. Some customers opt for hardware transcoding acceleration, 灵活的流媒体的转码许可支持英特尔快速同步视频和Nvidia GPU转码硬件和软件的支持.

从性能的角度来看, 灵活的Streamer有足够的内置健壮性，我们可以放心地声称，客户可以在任何基于云的服务器实例到他们自己的裸机服务器上执行高负载交付给大量的观众. And with our focus on lowering resource usage to prepare and deliver streams, 我们也很舒服地声称，你可能会耗尽带宽之前，你达到硬件百家乐软件限制或灵活的流媒体软件的任何限制.

远程捐款处理

《百家乐软件》调查的另一个重要发现是，获取和交付协议的广泛使用数量惊人. Nimble Streamer has all these aspects covered, including legacy and emerging protocols. Not only do we offer venerable RTMP and RTSP protocols, 在推和拉配置, as well as transport stream protocols—including HTTP-based DASH, HLS and MPEG-2 TS or UDP-based MPEG-2 TS—but we also cover emerging protocols such as SRT, 抗利尿, 和WebRTC鞭子摄入.

With newer transport solutions such as 抗利尿—a broadcast-focused transmission protocol, 它集成到从相机到图形工作站到视觉混频器的所有东西中，并且支持audiate基于音频的DANTE协议, 灵活的Streamer可以集成到需要传统和新兴协议的专业现场生产工作流程中.

强大的转码选项

While the vast majority of content delivered via streaming servers today uses the H.264 (AVC或MPEG-4 part 10)或H.265 (HEVC)视频编解码器, the acquisition of a live stream—from an appliance, 电脑, or even a camera with integrated streaming output—might originate from one of almost a dozen codecs.

这包括传统的行业标准编解码器(MPEG-2和MPEG-4第2部分)和专有编解码器，如VP8或VP9, 以及崭露头角的AV1编解码器, 所有这些都是2023年直播技术趋势调查的受访者提到的视频压缩工作流程的关键.

Nimble Streamer can convert between these various codecs with its Transcoding license, allowing conversion of any of those codecs to delivery-ready H.264或H.265. 我们优化了百家乐软件的使用, with performance of more ingest streams transcoded than any competing streaming server product.

It’s not just video codecs that can be converted. Nimble Streamer can ingest more than a half-dozen audio codecs—including AAC, G.711, MP3, MP2, Opus, and Speex—and transcode to AAC or MP3 for delivery streams. 事实上，灵活的Streamer处理开源(Opus)和传统的视频或ip语音音频编解码器意味着你覆盖了任何摄入流，你需要转码，以达到更广泛的受众.

When it comes to performance, we’ve also optimized Transcoder in a number of key ways. 例如, 使用WMSPanel web用户界面为Nimble Streamer客户提供了一个易于使用的拖放工作流，通过该工作流，可以轻松地跨各种服务器应用自定义的转码场景.

除了, 因为Transcoder的内置逻辑保证了初始流的解码-随后重新编码为AVC或hevc -每帧只完成一次, performance rises by avoiding unnecessary processing overhead when transcoding to multiple codecs. And for those who have invested heavily in Nvidia-based graphics processors (GPUs),

Nimble Streamer allows pipelines fully processed by NVENC without the need for additional software processing.

高级快速选项

随着人们对免费广告支持电视(FAST)商业模式的兴趣日益浓厚——作为一种抵消用户减少的方式，或者仅仅是通过广告流补充收入——nimble Streamer提供了先进的服务器端广告插入(SSAI)，人们可以根据需要应用业务逻辑(根据需要简单或复杂地选择根据一天中的时间显示哪些广告), 地理位置, 按次计费的, 等.).

SSAI features can be implemented very easily, without even needing to install anything on the server; just add a configuration file and enable the Addenda license. 输出选项很多, 从传统的Icecast和RTMP到基于http的(HLS)，以及Nimble Stream专有的低延迟SLDP输出协议.

广告可以放在视频流的开头或结尾(播放前或播放后)，也可以放在中间的任何位置(插播式或中间广告)。. Augmenting the basic business logic that Nimble Streamer provides, the Addenda license allows Nimble Streamer to identify SCTE35 markers, providing advanced insertion and passthrough options.

保护内容(DRM和Paywall)

When Nimble Streamer customers need to protect their live streams, 点播(VOD), and digital video recorder (DVR) content, 基本功能是内置的, 包括地理围墙, to limit viewership in a specific region; geoblocking to keep rogue viewers out; and IP filtering.

除了, Nimble Streamer comes standard. HLS的AES-128加密, 以及DASH和HLS的SSL保护，以及链接到第三方付费墙认证提供商的能力.

For those who need a bit more content protection, Addenda许可提供了跨广泛的提供商绑定第三方数字版权管理(DRM)解决方案的能力.

内置VOD和DVR选项

While almost all Nimble Streamer customers use our robust server to deliver live streams, 越来越多的客户还使用Nimble Streamer内置的视频点播(VOD)功能，为自己的客户提供更多的好处.

对于那些想要为直播提供DVR功能的人来说，允许观众以自己的速度赶上直播流或执行自己的关键事件的即时重播-灵活的流媒体已经覆盖了, 太, 作为其基本功能的一部分.

但是等等，还有更多!

With all the benefits of Nimble Streamer, we’ve not even touched on the Softvelum mobile broadcast 太ls.

例如, 适用于iOS和Android的Larix广播应用程序将您的移动设备变成具有可靠远程贡献的先进连接功能的全尺寸相机. 访问 softvelum.com/larix to learn more about Larix Broadcaster’s capabilities and to see examples of the most notable use cases.

底线

The bottom line when it comes to Nimble Streamer: Our team prides itself on building high-efficiency, 低百家乐软件优化的流媒体解决方案，对于我们的两组传统客户(小型流媒体初创公司和大型广播公司)来说都是经济高效的解决方案，需要在服务器到服务器的基础上增加灵活性.

我们会有更多关于 2023年直播技术趋势 接下来的几个月, 但对于我们的客户和潜在客户来说，这里有一个关键的收获:你可以按照自己的节奏扩展《百家乐软件》.

Regardless of whether you’re interested in using one or dozens of Nimble Streamer instances, 我们的WMSPanel云控制系统允许您在每个Nimble Streamer许可证上部署强大的业务逻辑和工作流, without forcing you to buy additional features until you really need them. And that’s savings you can use to grow your business in uncertain times. 访问 softvelum.com/nimble to get more 信息 about Nimble Streamer and other Softvelum solutions.

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