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softvelum updates
Some of the latest updates from our team:
- Intel Quick Sync is now available on Ubuntu 19.04+, so Live Transcoder supports it as well.
- Stream availability push API notifications are now supported for incoming RTMP, RTSP, Icecast, MPEG-TS and Transcoder live streaming.
Also, take a look at Softvelum Q3 news, here are some of them:
- Larix Screencaster for iOS is now available in AppStore, read setup instructions.
- SCTE-35 markers processing article updated with Transcoder passthrough.
- SCTE-35 markers injection for live streams is now available.
- Icecast Metadata can be ingested into live streams.
- Adaptive bitrate for real-time streaming: SLDP technology covers this use case perfectly. Read this article for setup and usage details.
- Power edges snapshot is available. It shows a case for light-weight origin server connected to powerful edge servers performing transcoding.
qosifire news
Qosifire stream monitoring now has free check-up page. It runs monitoring of HLS, RTMP and Icecast for 30 seconds to show stream status, protocol-specific information and errors if they appear. Run your stream through free check-up now!
Here's what we've also added to Qosifire recently.
- HLS debugging: you can track in real-time the DTS/PTS timestamps for video and audio samples in HLS for MPEG-TS, fMP4 and audio-only containers. Watch this video to see it in action.
- Watch video about ABR HLS handling.
- Alerts are now more flexible, check this article for details of setup.
- "Buffer too short" message can be seen in various streams of our customers. We've made an article explaining what it means and what to do about it.
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The check over is performed via distributed network of checkpoints, each checkpoint is a server powered by Nimble Streamer instance.
HLS, RTMP, Smooth, HDS, DASH, RTSP, Shoutcast and Icecast protocols are supported including SSL/TLS for RTMP, RTSP and HLS.
Enter the stream URL to start the availability check over. For HTTP protocols like HLS you should specify the URL of the playlist or manifest.
The results will appear below.
To improve HTTP streaming robustness and scalability, you can use Nimble Streamer as your re-streaming edge as well as live streaming origin server.
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Validate URL
Validate protocol
Resolve server name
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Get stream info
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Parse stream info
Check for redirect
Check stream availability
Validate protocol
Resolve server name
Connect to server
Send stream request
Get stream info
Get full stream info
Parse stream info
Check for redirect
Check stream availability
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