Installing Live Transcoder Nimble Streamer Live Transcoder installation
Please notice that Nimble Streamer Transcoder is only available for 64-bit systems .
This is an installation procedure for Live Transcoder package for Nimble Streamer which is required to make transcoding work.is described here as it's a separate procedure.
Obtain a license Before installing the transcoder and server, you need to have WMSPanel account. Just sign up to get your account if you still don't have one.
Any Transcoder instance requires an active subscription which is available on a monthly basis. Check the pricing page for detailed description of the pricing terms."Transcoders" top menu and click on "Manage transcoder licenses" button. Follow instructions on that page to proceed with payments.
You will get a license key which will be used during further installation.
Choose your operating system to get proper instructions:
Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet and 15.10 Wily Werewolf Debian 12 Bookworm Debian 9 Stretch CentOS 7 Red Hat 9 / Rocky Linux 9 / Rocky Linux 10 / AlmaLinux 9 Raspbian 10 (Buster) 64-bit (arm64) Raspbian 9 (Stretch) and Raspbian 10 (Buster) 32-bit (armhf) Windows / Windows Core macOS
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
sudo curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimble.sources https://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu/nimble-26.04.sources
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
sudo curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimble.sources https://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu/nimble.sources
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
sudo bash -c 'echo -e "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu jammy/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimble.list'
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/nimble.asc
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
grep -qF "nimblestreamer" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu focal/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
grep -qF "nimblestreamer" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu bionic/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
grep -qF "nimblestreamer" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu xenial/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
grep -qxF "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
grep -qF "nimblestreamer" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/ubuntu trusty/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
sudo curl -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nimble.sources https://nimblestreamer.com/debian/nimble-bookworm.sources
Install Transcoder package sudo apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
grep -qF "nimblestreamer" /etc/apt/sources.list || echo "deb http://nimblestreamer.com/debian/ stretch/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | apt-key add -
Install Transcoder package apt-get update
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Create file /etc/yum.repos.d/nimble.repo with following content:
[nimble]
Run:
sudo yum update
The installer will prompt to install a signature key and a package. Just type "y".
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Installation error You may get messages like this after launching "sudo yum install nimble-transcoder" command:
Error: Package: nimble-transcoder-1.0.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (nimble)
You need to add EPEL repository to your server. Run these commands:
yum -y install epel-release
Then try to install Transcoder again.
Upgrading Transcoder sudo yum makecache
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, add the following line to /etc/yum.repos.d/nimble.repo:
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key
Run the following command to add Nimble Streamer repository:
sudo bash -c 'echo -e "[nimble]\nname= Nimble Streamer repository\nbaseurl=https://nimblestreamer.com/rocky/9/\$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://nimblestreamer.com/gpg-sha512.key\n" > /etc/yum.repos.d/nimble.repo'
Run installation commands:
sudo dnf makecache
The installer will prompt to install a signature key and a package. Just type "y".
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo systemctl restart nimble
Upgrading Transcoder
sudo dnf makecache
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, add the following line to /etc/yum.repos.d/nimble.repo:
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://nimblestreamer.com/gpg-sha512.key
Add following rep into /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://nimblestreamer.com/raspbian/ buster/
Run:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | apt-key add -
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | apt-key add -
Add following rep into /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://nimblestreamer.com/raspbian/ stretch/
Run:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | apt-key add -
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.
Later on you can move license between transcoder instances by re-registering license on a new server.
Optional: Restart server If Nimble Streamer is already present in the system, you don't need to restart anything, the transcoder instance will be linked dynamically.
If Nimble has just been installed, you need to re-start it.
sudo service nimble restart
Upgrading Transcoder
apt-get update
If you get an error about unknown GPG key import Nimble Repository public key, use the following command:
wget -q -O - http://nimblestreamer.com/gpg.key | apt-key add -
Install Nimble Streamer if not installed Follow Nimble Streamer installation instruction
Install Transcoder package Launch the installer and follow setup wizard steps.
Register Transcoder in WMSPanel Windows 8.1 / Windows 10:
Search for "Register Nimble Streamer Transcoder" in the Windows 8 Start menu
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016:
Use "Start" -> "All Programs" -> "Nimble Streamer" -> "Register Nimble Streamer Transcoder" menu
Transcoder will become available in the panel immediately."Unable to find writable nimble.conf file" message than you need to right-click on "Register Nimble Streamer" and select "Run as Administrator".
Upgrading Transcoder
Run this command to stop Nimble Streamer Download and install the latest available Transcoder Windows package using instruction above. Run this command to start Nimble Streamer Use Docker Live Transcoder package is not available for macOS so we provide another approach based on Docker usage.Install Nimble Streamer with SRT on MacOS using Docker describes the setup process.
Register transcoder instance in WMSPanel Log into your Docker container and use this command:
sudo /usr/local/nimble/bin/nimble_regutil --transcoder-license <transcoder_license_key>
You will be asked for your WMSPanel login and password sent to you during sign up in WMSPanel.