Nimble Streamer Video-on-Demand Features and Capabilities

Nimble Streamer is a powerful and flexible video-on-demand (VOD) streaming solution. With its ability to re-package content into adaptive bitrate (ABR) protocols like HLS and MPEG-DASH, as well as support for progressive download, Nimble offers a range of options for delivering VOD content to viewers.

Nimble Streamer Video-on-Demand Specifications and Details

Input specs

HLS and MPEG-DASH transmuxing creates a VOD stream from file in a file system using just-in-time (JIT) packager.

• Supported formats: MP4, MP3, AAC, F4V.
• MP4 is supported as video+audio, video, audio, original MP4, Apple QuickTime extension.
• Both H.264 and H.265 video is supported.
• AV1 codec is supported for MPEG-DASH transmuxing.
• EditListBox MP4 atom is supported.

Progressive download allows streaming files with no re-packaging

• Supported formats: mp4, mp3, flv, oga, ogv, wav, webm, mkv.
• Seeking is supported by HTTP Range header and Flash time marks.

HLS and MPEG-DASH Processing

Just-in-time (JIT) high-performance packaging allows saving a lot of space and provides output streams for various VOD scenarios.

• MP4 transmuxing to HLS in VOD mode.
• Transmuxing MP4 to MPEG-DASH in VOD mode.
• 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 multiple audio-only and video-only tracks transmuxing for HLS.
• Produceaudio-only HLS from MP3 and AAC for decreasing traffic overhead of your internet radio.
• VOD cache is controlled with several parameters like chunks LRU life time and some others.

Output protocols

The supported output protocols for VOD are:

• ABR HLS with both MPEG-TS and fragmented MP4 (fMP4) container.
• ABR MPEG-DASH
• Progressive download
• HTTP/2 can be used for VOD HLS, MPEG-DASH and progressive download in modern browsers.

Output options

• Server playlist allows creating live streams from VOD files.
• Take a look at VOD streaming setup example to see step-by-step how-to.
• VOD subtitles support for single files and SMILs.
  WebVTT and TTML are supported for HLS and MPEG-DASH, also SRT is supported for HLS only,
• Nimble can also be used as an edge server for re-streaming the HLS, MPEG-DASH and progressive download to the consumers.
• CDN-friendly streaming setup is available for outgoing HLS streams.
• Stream aliases are available for making flexible security settings and statistics.
• If-Modified-Since header is supported for CDNs requests.
• Nimble Streamer can be used as an origin for peer-to-peer streaming. It has all necessary features for being the source. StreamRoot has prepared a step-by-step how-to describing the setup and usage of Nimble Streamer with StreamRoot P2P infrastructure.
• Take a look at performance tuning basics to see basic approaches to best performance.
• You may create robust delivery networks by using load balancing techniques for spreading the load between several Nimble instances.

Nimble DRM

Nimble Streamer DRM provides CENC encryption of VOD content for digital rights management.

• Google Widevine for MPEG-DASH via BuyDRM, EZDRM, PallyCon and Widevine Cloud Service.
• Microsoft Playready for MPEG-DASH via BuyDRM, EZDRM and PallyCon.
• Apple FairPlay for fMP4 container via BuyDRM, EZDRM and PallyCon.
• Supports Widevine Cloud Service with key rotation.
• Supports BuyDRM KeyOS.
• Supports EZDRM key management.
• Supports PallyCon Multi-DRM SaaS.

Easy setup is described on Nimble Streamer DRM page.

Server-Side Ads Insertion (SSAI)

Nimble Advertizer server-side ads insertion (SSAI) framework allows performing dynamic ads insertion into your VOD streams.

• Pre-roll and mid-roll ads.
• Custom business logic and Personalized ads

Currently VOD HLS with MPEG-TS and fMP4 containers are supported. Read more on Advertizer page.

Paywall

Nimble Streamer is used for building secure content delivery networks.

• Hotlink protection, pay-per-view and geo blocking feature set is available for all output streams.
• HLS AES-128 encryption is available for HLS.
• HLS and MPEG-DASH output streams can use SSL protection to stream via HTTPS