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Jacob Arends

Senior Product Manager | AI Scene Analysis & Playback

Jacob brings AI value across Bitmovin’s workflow, joining up content metadata, playback experiences, and actionable observability insights that delight developers and viewers alike. Coming from the high-pressure world of live sports, quality is a non-negotiable.

Developers Product Updates

Why Android Set-Top Boxes Are Critical to the Future of OTT (and How Bitmovin Helps Get Them Right)

Set-top boxes (STBs) remain central to streaming strategies for broadcasters, telecom operators, and OTT providers globally, providing for viewers who value a consistent TV experience with a familiar remote control interaction. These devices span multiple operating systems, including Android, RDK, and Linux, each with unique technical characteristics and user-experience considerations. Among these, Android-powered set-top boxes…

Developers

How to build a streaming platform in a day with AI and Bitmovin

Building a video streaming platform used to take weeks and a team of specialists. With an AI coding agent and Bitmovin, it now takes a day. Bitmovin’s CEO proved it by building Bitflix, a fully working Netflix-style streaming service in 24 hours using Claude Code alongside Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder, Player, AI Scene Analysis, and Observability solution. In this post, we walk through how AI coding agents work with Bitmovin’s MCP server and CLI, the step-by-step prompt sequence to get your own streaming service up and running, and what you get at the end.

Developers Innovation Product Updates

Bitmovin and Cloudflare Bring Media over QUIC (MoQ) to Life

Live streaming has always faced an uncomfortable trade-off: massive scale or sub-second latency, rarely both, and never cheaply. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is the emerging IETF standard designed to finally break that compromise. Built on QUIC and HTTP/3, it replaces the traditional segment-pull approach of HLS and DASH with a publish/subscribe fan-out architecture that delivers sub-second latency at broadcast scale. This post explains what MoQ is, how Bitmovin is integrating it into Player Web X, what Cloudflare is building with their open-source global relay network, and what this partnership means for the future of live streaming.

Innovation Developers Product Updates

Understanding MCP: A New Way to Access Your Data with Agentic AI Workflows

As AI systems move beyond simple question answering and toward agent driven workflows, access to reliable, structured data has become a central challenge. Large language models are effective at reasoning over natural language, but they still depend on well defined interfaces to interact with real systems such as analytics platforms, operational tools, and content services. Without a consistent way to expose those systems, teams are often forced to build custom integrations or rely on fragile prompt based approaches that are difficult to maintain at scale.

html5 video players - ultimate guide
VidTech

The Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players [2024]

Developers know that a lot goes into video streaming. The content must be produced, encoded, transcoded, and distributed globally. For this reason, delivering seamless over-the-top (OTT) video experiences often requires piecing together a handful of technology components. In this Ultimate Guide to HTML5 Video Players, we cover what to look for when choosing a player, when to go with a free or open-source option vs. a premium paid solution, and the best HTML5 video players to build on.

Innovation

Completing the WebRTC Playback Experience – Enabling Rewind During Real-Time Live Streams

Live streaming has solidified its role as a pivotal component of modern video workflows, enabling platforms and media companies to captivate audiences with that sense of witnessing events as they happen. This trend has gained even greater momentum during and after the pandemic, as users craved live experiences that spanned a variety of interests –…

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