Softvelum Low Delay Protocol
Low latency playback in browsers and mobile
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Low latency playback in browsers and mobile
Softvelum Low Delay Protocol (SLDP) is aт innovative solution for the live streaming industry that prioritizes low latency. With the decline of RTMP and Flash, the need for a real-time delivery protocol that is supported on multiple platforms has become increasingly important. SLDP is designed to provide sub-second delay between media server output and user playback, making it ideal for use cases like security, online chats, gaming, bidding and more.
SLDP uses WebSockets for transmission over HTTP/HTTPS, allowing for up to one second delay between the origin and player. The protocol is codec-agnostic, meaning that you can stream a variety of video and audio codecs, including H.264, H.265/HEVC, AV1, VP8, VP9, AAC, MP3, and Opus, to platforms that support playback. Real-time adaptive bitrate (ABR) is also supported, which allows for near-instant channel switching and just one GOP time to start new rendition playback.
Whether you are looking to deliver low latency video to multiple devices, perform synchronized playback, or insert ads into your streams, Softvelum Low Delay Protocol (SLDP) has you covered.
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SLDP ads insertion live demo
Here you can play SLDP live stream with ads insertion
in our free HTML5 player.
Find out more on Nimble Advertizer Live Demo page.
Take a look at our latest case study: LiveX and VVCR: Nimble Streamer Powers Cloud Production Innovator featuring SLDP used by the leading production company.
From scenarios setup perspective, SLDP is just one more protocol in our bundle.
Use this article as a setup reference and this FAQ for some specific details.
Please learn more about ABR streams setup for Nimble Streamer output and real-time ABR setup for SLDP.
Amazon CloudFront has full support for WebSockets which means SLDP can be delivered via CloudFront network seamlessly.
Please take a look at CloudFront setup for SLDP delivery to learn more about proper settings.
Nimble Streamer takes most popular protocols as input for further processing.
These include RTMP, SRT, RTSP, WebRTC, MPEG-TS (UDP and TCP), HLS, Icecast and SHOUTcast.
Once the data is received it can be transmuxed into all supported live streaming protocols which include SLDP, among others. Server passes though the content without changes in case of transmuxing, so whatever the original protocol carries, it will be brought via SLDP to a client.
Live Transcoder can be used in workflows and in cases when some content transformation is needed. This might be downscaling for ABR, filtering, re-sampling, changing profile or whatever else is needed. Transcoder produces H.264 or H.265 (HEVC) video with AAC or MP3 audio so the target platform should be able to play that.
If the ABR SLDP stream is produced, each single bitrate stream within ABR stream may use its own codec or different profile of the same codec. So your FullHD streams may use high profile and other lower resolution streams will use H.264 baseline.
Users can play SLDP with Opus audio on iPhone in audio-only mode when taking WebRTC as a source without transcoding.
SLDP can be played in HTML5 browsers with MSE on support using SLDP HTML5 player.
You can also add playback to your own players using JavaScript SDK.
You can also add DVR support into SLDP HTML5 Player by using HLS DVR streams. Read Adding DVR into SLDP HTML5 Player article for setup and usage details.
Mobile Larix Player SDKs for Android and iOS are available for adding playback capabilities to your own apps. This includes SLDP and RTMP support.
Visit our players page to see what you can use on client side.
SLDP also supports synchronized simultaneous playback among multiple browsers and mobile devices. This is ideal for applications like one big screen with audio on individual devices, a second screen application, or multiple screens with a single source of sound.
This capability is supported in Nimble Streamer server, HTML5 SLDP player and Larix Player for Android/iOS.
Pleaseread this articlewhich explains the setup and usage.
Nimble Advertizer supports inserting of advertising into SLDP live streams on server side. This means you can have ads in your SLDP streams regardless of the viewer's platform and player.
Advertizer allows implementing your custom business logic for pre-roll and mid-roll with user-specific insertion.
Visit Advertizer page for technical specs and other details.