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Mario is a Staff Software Engineer for Player SDKs at Bitmovin. The SDK team works on delivering the best possible multimedia experience to mobile phones, smart TVs and set-top boxes. He and his team are working hard to provide player SDKs which are robust and stable, are optimized for performance, and which support a wide range of streaming technologies and features across a great variety of different platforms and devices.
TL;DR As streaming platforms scale globally, development teams increasingly need to understand how playback activity is distributed and evolving in real time. However, impression data, one of the most direct indicators of player usage, is typically surfaced only after aggregation and processing through reporting pipelines. This makes it useful for analysis, but limits its value…
TL;DR Repurposing landscape content into vertical formats such as 9:16 is now a common requirement for short‑form and mobile experiences. As more viewing shifts to phones held in portrait, teams want their existing video catalog to look good in a vertical frame without introducing a separate workflow just for it. A simple center crop often…
TL;DR Streaming has the power to connect diverse audiences, but making video content accessible for all remains a challenge. Accessibility must be a priority, especially for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers who face unique barriers. While helpful for some, traditional subtitles (both audio and visual) lack the richness and expressiveness of sign language, limiting access to…
Developing an application built to stream video can take a lot of work, especially for smaller development teams or those with minimal video technical expertise. Normally, to build on platforms such as iOS and Android, an experienced developer for each would be needed, but with frameworks such as React Native and Flutter, it’s gotten much…
Quickly and easily check your video streams in our Native SDKs with the Bitmovin mobile apps using your own streams, DRM licenses and Ad servers If you are considering using the Bitmovin Player in your native app then the first thing you should do is download the Android and/or the iOS Bitmovin app to get…
The Bitmovin Player is now equipped with facial recognition software that allows the player logic to adapt to viewers behavior. A Little About User Interfaces Ever since the world’s first computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), went online in 1946, computers have been designed to respond to human input. ENIAC’s human interface was a…
Delivering video to every device, every platform and every browser has become one of the biggest challenges in video. OTT, TVE and SVOD Traditional video entertainment continues to be disrupted by Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services in major markets worldwide and Pay TV service operators and broadcasters fully understand that OTT and TVE are…
At WWDC17 Apple presented updates and new features that will be available to their products soon including HEVC in HLS This year Apple announced support for HEVC/H.265 for macOS High Sierra and iOS11. The release of iOS 11 is expected to happen soon after Apple’s iPhone 8 launch event on September 12th. Considering the fact…
Bitmovin’s native mobile SDKs provide a unified UI and configuration which ensures a consistent presentation and user experience across all devices. As more and more users are watching video using apps, we at Bitmovin focus on developing native SDKs for our customers to make it easier to provide a unified video experience across all platforms…
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