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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.
Build a Mediaplayer App for Android The Bitmovin Android streaming media player (Bitmovin API) is an example based on ExoPlayer that connects with your Bitmovin account, shows your encodings, and lets you stream these encodings to your Android mobile. It can be easily modified to build your own Android application using MPEG-DASH encodings from Bitmovin….
Why Video Dominates the Internet Video is ubiquitous on the internet and everybody knows that. But the CISCO Visual Networking Index (VNI) quantifies it. Currently online video consumption accounts for 64% of global internet traffic and is projected to grow to 80% by 2019. This video traffic is driven by online video services such as…
Cloud Encoding with Bitmovin and Google Bitmovin is utilizing Google infrastructure to provide cloud video encoding 100x faster than any other encoding service. Our distributed software based encoding approach is not bound to any specific cloud provider but Google Compute Engine (GCE) provides great performance. This enables faster encoder provisioning and in the end decreased queuing delay for…
Encoding API with Comprehensive Documentation and API Clients Bitmovin offers a powerful cloud encoding service for developers with a comprehensive video encoding API. Don’t miss out on our developer section including comprehensive demos, tutorials and FAQs to help you get more familiar with our bitmovin products. API client implementations for different programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby,…
Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Apple HLS) is a widely used adaptive HTTP streaming protocol available as IETF Internet Draft. It is mainly targeted towards mobile devices based on iOS such as iPhone, iPad or AppleTV, as well as at OS X desktop computers. Apple’s Internet browser Safari also accepts HLS streams as the source of the HTML5 <Video> tag,…
There are more and more open-source projects are available today around or supporting MPEG-DASH and it is always good to have some of these tools ready during development, we collected the following list of publicly available and open-source MPEG-DASH player tools: libdash MPEG-DASH player Reference Library libdash is the official reference software of the ISO/IEC…
In 2008, Microsoft announced the release of the new Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 with a new adaptive HTTP streaming feature called Smooth Streaming, targeting the smooth delivery of HD content to the client. Their Silverlight based client continually detects the available bandwidth conditions as well as CPU utilization and playback window resolution to decide…
All existing adaptive HTTP streaming technologies, such as the proprietary Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS), and the only international standardized solution MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) follow nearly the same principle All existing adaptive HTTP streaming technologies, such as the proprietary Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), Apple HTTP…
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