Use of patents
Nimble Streamer Transcoder uses technologies that are covered by a number of patents.
Therefore Softvelum, the company behind Nimble Streamer, is the licensee of the following patent pools:
- AAC от Via Licensing
- MPEG-4 Visual
- AVC/H.264
- MPEG-LA HEVC
- Access Advance
Covered by one or more claims of the patents listed at “https://accessadvance.com/hevc-advance-patent-list/“.
x264 encoder
Nimble Streamer Transcoder uses x264 library among other codecs. Softvelum was granted a license from CoreCodec for this library commercial usage.
SVT-HEVC encoder
Nimble Streamer Transcoder uses libsvthevc library licensed under this license. Copyright (c) 2018 Intel Corporation
FFmpeg™
This software uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv2.1 and its sources and build script can be downloaded here.
LAME
This software uses code of LAME MP3 licensed under the LGPL and its source and build script can be downloaded here.