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Kieran Farr is an experienced technical founder and senior executive with over a decade of experience working with online video infrastructure. Kieran is also a community advocate for web-based standards to deliver 360º video, VR, and AR experiences and advises startup founders working in video, crypto and XR at 500 Startups and the European Innovation Academy.
Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt Collaborate on Innovative Video Transmission Technology Klagenfurt, Austria / 21 January 2020 – Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, is teaming up with the University of Klagenfurt and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) in a multi-million Euro research project to uncover video…
At Bitmovin’s Southeast Asia Internet Video Debate 2019, video executives shared hot OTT topics ranging from AI to multi-codec and low-latency As the orange sun set over the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, senior executives and video engineers from India’s leading Internet video streaming companies gathered together at our first APAC Internet Video Tech Social…
TL;DR In late 2018 Telekom Slovenije launched NEO, a cloud-connected home entertainment platform that combines Pay-TV, gaming, e-commerce and voice control in the user’s native language. It needed a player that delivered high-quality streams to all major browsers and devices, and chose Bitmovin to do it. In late 2018, Telekom Slovenije launched NEO, a next-generation…
TL;DR Znipe.tv used Bitmovin cloud encoding to deliver an eSports platform where viewers choose which players and streams to follow. The post notes the global video game audience was projected to reach about 650 million by 2022, with competitive gaming expected to become a billion dollar industry in 2019. The global audience for video games…
TL;DR Video APIs let developers add video features to apps without building every component themselves. The post cites Cisco’s forecast that online video would make up more than 80% of consumer internet traffic by 2020, with 51% of video plays on mobile, and outlines five types of video integrations for SaaS platforms. Snapchat. Instagram stories….
Las Vegas, NV – April 10, 2018 – Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, announces that iflix, the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, will use Bitmovin encoding to enable the delivery of TV shows, movies and sport in high definition video over low bandwidth mobile networks across the Middle East, Africa and…
Leveraging microservices and containers to create an advanced, scalable and powerful video encoding service. Video encoding is a complex and compute intensive task which is well suited to leverage the cloud thanks to its ability to quickly scale compute intensive operations. In other words, you can get massive computing power that scales very quickly to…
Steve Jobs was the first to announce Adobe Flash’s impending doom during the reveal of the original iPhone in 2007. Since then, plenty of ink has been spilled about Flash’s impending death, seemingly always just a few years on the horizon as browser makers chipped away at support for the ubiquitous multimedia plugin. Now, finally,…
**Updated in 2021** Apple surprised the video ecosystem in January 2018 by joining the Alliance for Open Media, the consortium standardizing the next-generation video codec AV1. As of 2021, the consortium has made significant improvements to the application and reach of the open standard codec, with at least 11% of Global Video Developers indicating plans…
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