Softvelum

Softvelum is a developer of streaming infrastructure services, including web services and streaming mobile applications. The company's services include Nimble Stream, Nimble Transcoder, WMSPanel, Larix Broadcaster, and Qosfire. Each of these is designed for live and on-demand streaming and for monitoring the quality of the live streaming.

The company was founded in 2011 by CEO Yury Udovichenko and is headquartered in Vladivostok, Russia. The company offers services and products for streaming and broadcasting and to help users monetize their content and protect their streams from pirating. Customers of the company and their services have included Vidillion, StreamGuys, ITWorksMe, Mivo, Raskenlund, New IT Venture, OmniMediacast, Tulix Systems, and Peer5.

The Larix Broadcaster service includes applications and SDKs for capturing and streaming from mobile devices, for both Android and iOS, as well as a React Native SDK with the Larix streaming library. The Larix broadcaster offers a set of tools for remote contribution, including SRT, RTMP, RTSP, RTMPS, RIST, Talkback for Larix Broadcaster, support for multiple simultaneous connections, pause and standby modes, adaptive video bitrate, and multiple video codecs, including H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC.

The Larix Broadcaster application offers users the following basic features:

• capabilities from the Larix streaming library
• landscape and portrait orientation
• live rotation support
• front and back camera hotswitch
• content recording and screenshot saving support
• streaming pause support, standby mode
• input audio gain control
• audio-only capture
• overlay support for image layers with external URL, web widgets, text and HTML widgets, timestamp support, and an ability to assign layers for various modes, such as streaming, pause, and standby

Softvelum's Nimble Streamer is a livestreaming and live transcoder platform with a series of features through various protocols and codecs. It allows for decoding, transforming, and encoding of live video and audio streams. And it offers users a chance to protect and monetize streams and content, provides server-side ad insertion on live streams, and NDI support.

Another software offered by Softvelum is the WMSPanel, with a single dashboard through which users can manage their Nimble Streamer instances without streaming interruption. This allows users to set up live streaming scenarios and video-on-demand transmuting and manage live transcoder scenarios for live stream transformation. From the WMSpanel, users are also offered a central API to control all servers, define paywall settings, and maintain those servers.

Qosfire is a stream quality monitoring service offered by Softvelum. It helps users ensure their streams are working, that content is consistent, and that streaming protocols are valid. The software has three components: an agent that checks streams using their nodes, a web service console that collects data, and a free application that notifies user devices about any alerts.