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x264 logo x264

x264 is a free software library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

Nimble Streamer logo Nimble Streamer

Light-weight media server that is freemium, pay for control panel if you need it.
  • x264 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-30
  • Nimble Streamer Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-06-19

x264 videos

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X264 Image Quality Analysis: SLOW is NOT worth it (GN Follow-Up)

More videos:

  • Review - NVENC vs AMF/VCE vs QuickSync vs X264 - ULTIMATE Encoder Quality Analysis 2020
  • Review - Nvidia's RTX NvEnc is beyond impressive... (GPU encoding explanation, x264 Medium Comparison)

Nimble Streamer videos

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Nimble streamer review

More videos:

  • Review - Nimble Streamer: A Must Have Tool for Broadcasters
  • Review - Nimble Streamer Transcoder UI review for ABR scenario setup

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to x264 and Nimble Streamer)

x264

Nimble Streamer

Video
26 26%
Video
74% 74
Media Player
100 100%
Media Player
0% 0
Video Platform
0 0%
Video Platform
100% 100
Video Converter
100 100%
Video Converter
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Nimble Streamer seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

x264 mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of x264 yet. Tracking of x264 recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Nimble Streamer mentions (8)

  • How do I encode CEA-708 subtitles into an MPEG-TS video stream with FFmpeg?
    Is this the correct nimble? https://wmspanel.com/nimble. Source: about 1 year ago
  • SRT & RTMP ingest & return feed sync
    Nimble Streamer software media server can receive the streams and align them together before sending into NDI output. Check this video as example. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Best low latency private SRT streaming platform?
    ClearView Flex and Evercast are good turn key services. If you want to DIY, https://wmspanel.com/nimble is quite decent. All are well under 2 seconds, with Evercast being the fastest. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Homelab server suggestions for live video production?
    Within the server’s various VMs and containers (pretty much all Linux containers of some sort), most video signals will be shipped around using NDI. NDI uses CPU, not GPU, but isn’t terribly resource-heavy from what I can tell. I’ll likely have multiple instances of OBS deployed for source ingest (browser sources especially) and encoding/streaming/recording. It seems like I’d benefit from NVIDIA GPU here, as the... Source: over 2 years ago
  • VLC Active X into Citect
    Then, a year later, he wrote another blog, this time using the Nimble Streamer Server which transcodes the video stream into Softvelum Low Delay Protocol, which can be then used by web clients (as well as a thick client via HTML5 component). Source: over 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing x264 and Nimble Streamer, you can also consider the following products

FFmpeg - Open source multimedia suite for conversion, playback, profiling, and streaming.

Ant Media Server - Scalable, Ultra Low Latency & Adaptive WebRTC Streaming Ant Media Server provides Scalable Ultra-low latency (0.5 seconds) Adaptive Live Streaming with WebRTC. It supports RTMP, RTSP, Zixi, WebRTC, Adaptive Bitrate, HLS and MP4 recording.

Xvid - Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative...

Kurento - Kurento is an open source software development framework providing a media server written in C/C++...

FLAC - A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression

Red5 - Red5 is an open source Flash media server for live streaming solutions of all kinds.

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