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Product Manager | Playback
Part of the Product team for Bitmovin Playback, Jacob comes from the high pressure world of live sports which fuels his ability to focus on optimizing the quality of experience for both developers creating streaming platforms and the viewers consuming their content.
You’re watching a key moment in a show. The tension is building, the scene is about to peak, and just as it does, the video cuts to an ad. It’s a familiar experience, and one that immediately breaks immersion, not because the ad exists, but because of where it appears. As ad-supported streaming continues to…
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.
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.
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…
Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis is the latest addition to a suite of offerings that help streaming services maximize the value of their existing and upcoming content. AI has been influencing streaming for years, from powering recommendations to optimizing encoding, but its role is now expanding deeper into the video workflow. One of the most…
When choosing between a commercial player and building out an open-source option, there are many factors to consider. Cost is always the major driving factor, but it doesn’t always reflect the resources required for development. In this blog, we will discuss some recent findings from the Bitmovin engineering and integrations teams on what it takes…
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.
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 –…
Over the past few months, we’ve given insight into how we were evolving as a team and updating the Bitmovin Player for the future with our past blogs on “Why Structured Concurrency Matters for Developers” and “Developing a Video Player with Structured Concurrency”. In this third and final installment, the moment has finally come to…
What have we built? We have built and released a dedicated Player SDK for Roku. This solution is designed to enable developers to be able to work with Roku devices without needing deep technical knowledge of the Roku playback setup and removing the need for heavy lift development efforts in building out functionality for Roku…
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