• Live video is produced and processed by professional production teams in local networks prior to outer-world delivery.
• Various solutions from various vendors are fully interoperable using the same protocol.
• Network topology doesn't matter, making it easy to find and capture video streams.
• Video source is abstracted from video destinations, it just sends out the data into the network.
• The video content is moderately compressed with 10x factor down to 100 MBps making it easy to deliver over local networks.
• It's a replacement for SDI technology.

Nimble Streamer has full support for NDI protocol input and output. Its main purpose is to deliver live streams efficiently so it's not a production-level mixing and editing tool.

Nimble Streamer is a "bridge" between live production environments and global networks.

NDI input
Nimble Streamer takes NDI input and handles it for further processing.

• Get NDI from local network.
• Decode and transform the stream with Live Transcoder filters: re-sizing, re-sampling etc.
• Encode content into H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9 with supported encoding libraries.
• Re-package into other protocols for further delivery, like SRT, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-DASH , Icecast etc.
• Record and play via DVR feature set with HLS and MPEG-DASH.
• Handle heavy duty when serving streams to multiple viewers.

Example: Nimble Streamer gets NDI stream in local network, re-package it to SRT and deliver it to distant production site with high reliability and security.

NDI output
Nimble Streamer can take any live stream input and create output NDI stream.

• Take any content input via supported protocols like SRT, RIST, RTMP, MPEG-TS etc.
• Transcode and send the content via NDI into local network.

Example: having SRT stream from external public network, Nimble Streamer can re-package it into NDI for further production purposes.

NDI monitoring console tool
Along with implementing NDI in Nimble Streamer, we've made a console tool for diagnosing NDI streams.

• Get the list of active NDI streams in your network;
• Get detailed information about video and audio frames;
• No GUI, just plain text console for your convenience.

1. Sign up for WMSPanel account or log in if you have it.
2. Install Nimble Streamer or upgrade it to latest version.
3. Subscribe for WMSPanel account, the price starts from 30 USD per month.
4. Create Live Transcoder license and subscribe for it. It costs 50 USD per month per server.
5. Install Live Transcoder package and register the license on the server with Nimble Streamer instance
6. Follow full NDI setup instructions to make NDI-specific setup of Nimble Streamer and Live Transcoder.