Nimble Live Transcoder

Input spec

Supported codecs

• H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, NDI, MPEG2, MPEG4, VP8 and VP9 video
• AAC, MP3, NDI, Opus, AC-3, MP2, Speex, PCM G.711 (a-law, μ-law), FLAC audio

Input protocols

• RTMP pulled and published
• RTSP pulled and announced
• MPEG-TS via HTTP and UDP
• SRT via all modes
• WebRTC WHIP
• NDI
• Zixi
• RIST via all modes
• Pulled HLS
• Icecast and SHOUTcast

Excellent performance

High-efficiency add-on for Nimble Streamer with low resource usage and high performance

• libx264 encoder for H.264/AVC
• Intel® Quick Sync acceleration
• NVidia® NVENC hardware acceleration
• New: AMD Alveo U30 hardware acceleration
• SVT-HEVC software encoding of H.265
• SVT-AV1 and libaom-av1 software encoding for AV1
• libvpx VP8/VP9 encoding
• VA API (libVA) support for H.264 and VP8
• libopus for Opus encoding
• FDK audio transcoder
• NETINT support via custom build
• Ability to run Out-of-process transcoding
  to improve stability of 3rd-party libs
• Videowall, live and file overlays support

Visit documentation reference for details.

Output spec

Supported codecs

• H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1, NDI, VP8 and VP9 video
• AAC, MP3, Opus and NDI audio
• input codecs effortless pass-through

Output protocols

• HLS (MPEG2TS, fMP4) playback
• MPEG-DASH playback
• RTMP and RTSP playback and re-publish
• SRT streaming via all modes
• SLDP playback
• NDI with SEI metadata NTP sync-up
• WebRTC WHEP
• Zixi
• RIST via all modes
• MPEG-TS via HTTP and multicast
• Icecast playback

• Optimized decoders collaboration
• Apply filters without streams interruption
• Resize or crop to create ABR resolutions
• API to manipulate and control

• Pre-defined and custom FFmpeg™ filters
• Create any chain of transcoding
• Graphic overlays
• Conditional ABR transcoding
• Server playlist uses Transcoder

• Apply settings to multiple servers in a few clicks
• Use any browser to setup and control
• Allows building efficient filter chains
• Powers fail-over and emergency hot-swap features