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Dr. Christian Timmerer is the Head of Research and a co-founder at Bitmovin. His work focuses on cutting edge video streaming solutions for the web, like MPEG-DASH and HEVC, and making higher resolution video, like Ultra-HD, easily accessible to the consumers. Timmerer is an active member of ISO/IEC MPEG and editor for the MPEG-21, MPEG-M, MPEG-V, and MPEG-DASH standard, and thus has also a wide range of knowledge, overview and contacts within the international technology market. In his position of Associate Professor at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt he had published more than 200 papers at international conferences and journals.
This is the second part in a three part series on high quality video streaming, evaluating the performance of MPEG-DASH against other adaptive streaming technologies. In the first part of this blog post we provided the basics about Quality of Experience (QoE) with MPEG-DASH. In the second part we will provide details about the actual…
This blog post is also available at at blog.timmerer.com and SIGMM records. The 112th MPEG meeting in Warsaw, Poland was a special meeting for me. It was my 50th MPEG meeting, which roughly equates to one year of MPEG meetings (i.e., I’ve spent one year of my life in MPEG meetings incl. traveling – scary, isn’t it? ……
Multimedia streaming over HTTP is no longer a niche research topic as it has entered our daily lives. The common assumption is that it is deployed on top of the existing infrastructure, utilizing application (HTTP) and transport (TCP) layer protocols as is. Interestingly, standards such as MPEG’s Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) do not mandate…
This is part one of a three part series analysing the impact of Adaptive Streaming, specifically MPEG-DASH, on Quality of Experience (QoE). Other posts in this series: Part 2. The second part outlines the methods employed to conduct the experiment. Part 3. This post describes the results and conclusions that can be derived from our findings….
Meet Bitmovin @ Werbeplanung.at SUMMIT 2014 IN VIENNA Bitmovin will participate at the SUMMIT 2014 in Vienna on July 3rd and 4th, 2014. Bitmovin will compete against four other innovative multimedia companies in the Start-up Challenge TV on July 3rd from 16:30 to 17:30 in the Festsaal of the Hofburg Palace. The Start-ups have to…
The 108th MPEG meeting was held at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia in Spain featuring the following highlights (don’t worry about the acronyms, this is on purpose and they will be explained further below): Requirements: PSAF, SCC, CDVA Systems: M2TS, MPAF, Green Metadata Video: CDVS, WVC, VCB JCT-VC: SHVC, SCC JCT-3D: MV/3D-HEVC, 3D-AVC Audio:…
January, 2014, San Jose, CA, USA MPEG Receives an Emmy Award The MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS; formally known as Rec. ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1) has been awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is the fourth time MPEG has received an Emmy award. The…
November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland Here comes a news report from the 106th MPEG in Geneva, Switzerland which was actually on the same day as the Austrian national day and Austrian Airlines had a nice present (see picture) for their passengers. The official press release can be found here. In this meeting, ISO/IEC 23008-1 (i.e., MPEG-H…
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