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Christopher Mueller is the CTO and Co-founder of Bitmovin. He leads Bitmovin's long-term technology vision, and is responsible for overseeing product development, industry thought leadership and advanced technology incubations. He published more than 40 research papers in the areas of multimedia streaming, networking, and multimedia adaptation and currently holds several U.S. patents. He co-created the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard which is used by Netflix and Youtube and is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software and a contributor to multiple open source tools.
Welcome to our comprehensive guide to MPEG-DASH in 2022. In this quick and informative article, Bitmovin CTO and Co-founder Christopher Mueller describes everything you need to know about MPEG-Dash (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP). Chapters: The History of MPEG-DASH? What is MPEG-DASH (in a Nutshell)? Media Presentation Description (MPD) Segment Referencing Schemes Conclusion and Further…
Latency is a major challenge for the online video industry. This article takes us through what latency is, why it’s important for streaming and how CMAF low latency streaming can help to solve the problems. Live stream “latency” is the time delay between the transmission of actual live content from the source to when it…
The new Bitmovin API delivers a comprehensive video infrastructure solution by integrating all aspects of the adaptive streaming workflow into one easy to use interface: Encoding, Player, Analytics, Storage and CDN Video Infrastructure via an API Product development at Bitmovin is driven by our customers’ business needs. By working closely with our users, we have built a…
In November 2015 Microsoft open sourced the .NET framework to make it cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, perhaps making it a very interesting API Client for your next project. We already offer a great range of API clients for our encoding service for adaptive streaming video, including node.js, ruby, javascript, php, python, java, and we are constantly…
Bitmovin was built from the ground up with Multi-Cloud in mind. It can run on virtually any cloud! From the first line of code, the Bitmovin Cloud Encoding Service was designed to be a true Multi-Cloud service, which means it can easily move from one cloud to another providing you with a very high level…
What is DRM and How Does it Work? Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems provide you with the ability to control how people can consume your content. Usually content owners and producers, like all the major Hollywood Studios and TV Stations, force content distributors to use specific DRM systems to protect each piece of content. Depending on the…
In combination with Fastly and Google Cloud Storage we are now able to deliver an end to end experience, from encoding to streaming to playback, that can easily compete with YouTube and Netflix Bitmovin enables high quality video streaming on the web with the smartest video encoding service and HTML5 adaptive player on the market. We utilize…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is a compression standard that doubles the compression efficiency while maintaining similar or same video quality compared to its predecessor H.264/AVC High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is a compression standard that was jointly developed by ISO/IEC MPEG SC29/WG11 and the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG)….
Having advanced features such as cropping (changing the size of the video) available with MPEG-DASH and HLS, through a unified API with API clients for different languages can be very handy Streaming has become more complex in the last few years, with modern technologies such as MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) and Apple HTTP…
Recently we added several features to the Bitmovin encoding service, including the ability to watermark your video streams. This enables our users to brand their streams in several ways using PNGs, JPGs or even GIFs. You can also set the exact position of your image in the video stream. The watermarking is part of our…
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