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Martin Smole

Martin is responsible for Bitmovin Encoding product strategy, roadmap and development. His team works to enable complex video encoding workflows for global premium media and technology companies like Red Bull Media House or the New York Times. As one of the first employees, Martin led the development of Bitmovin encoding infrastructure, building the world's first commercial massively scalable encoding service, capable of achieving 100x speeds over realtime. Currently, Martin oversees further development of the Bitmovin Encoding solution, including integration of new technologies, like AV1.

Bitmovin Improves Support AV1 Video Encoding for VoD

**Updated in March 2022** Since 2017, Bitmovin has actively worked in video and streaming standardization and has consistently driven standards from inception to implementation. Our founders co-created the MPEG-DASH streaming …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • March 11, 2022

Bitmovin Video Encoder V2 introduces Per-Title, AV1 support, 2 Pass & 3 Pass Encoding

Bitmovin Encoding v2.0 is a major release which adds some powerful new features including: Per-Title, AV1 support, 3-Pass encoding and more – Test it today!

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • October 11, 2018
Bitmovin Encoding Version 2.0

A.I. Encoding Uses Machine Learning to Speed Up Processing and Improve Quality

A.I. Encoding workflow running on a containerized “chunk-based” infrastructure with ML-based machine learning model delivers industries highest quality video encoder. At Bitmovin, we have been known to push the boundaries …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • April 4, 2018
AI 3-Pass Encoding is a new level for video quality

WWDC17 – HEVC with HLS – Apple just announced a feature that we support out of the box

This year Apple announced at their WWDC conference support for HEVC/H.265 with HLS for macOS High Sierra and iOS11 Every year at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) they present …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • June 6, 2017

VP9 Codec: MPEG-DASH VP9 for VoD and Live

VP9 is the next level in video compression and can help you to save up to 50% on your CDN costs, or significantly increase the quality of your streams. We …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • March 24, 2017
VP9 Increase quality and reduce bandwidth

Implement Live-to-VoD with the Bitmovin API

Get your VoD assets online immediately after the live event with Bitmovin Live-to-VoD. Decrease your encoding costs, reduce your hardware footprint and create a higher quality of experience for your …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • February 22, 2017
Setup Live to VoD encoding ans storage for higher ROI

Offline Playback with DRM – Requested Features from the Netflix User Base

The following tutorial will show you how to set up offline playback using Bitmovin and ExpressPlay DRM. On 30th November 2016 Netflix announced the support for offline playback, which has …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • January 18, 2017
Offline Playback with Bitmovin

Integrate Axinom Multi-DRM with Bitmovin

The following tutorial will show you how to use Axinom DRM together with the Bitmovin Cloud Encoding system to create a video distribution platform, ready to target multiple devices and …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • September 12, 2016
Multi DRM with Axinom and Bitmovin

API Update – Closed Captioning, Video with Multiple Audio Tracks and More

Closed Captioning Closed captioning is the process of adding text to to video files allowing the user to read along with the audio. This is usually employed to assist hearing impaired viewers, …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • September 29, 2015
closed captioning and more in the latest API release

HLS Encryption through Bitmovins Cloud Video Encoding Service

HLS Encryption Bitmovin supports HLS encryption with AES-128 and SAMPLE-AES now. Bitmovin already supports DRM for MPEG-DASH with Widevine Modular and Microsoft PlayReady. The next logical step was to support encryption for …

  • Martin Smole Martin Smole
  • August 20, 2015
HLS Encryption