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CEO and Co-Founder of Bitmovin, a company providing cloud-based OTT video software solutions for leading media companies worldwide.
IBC made a welcome return to Amsterdam following a two-year absence, and we caught up with our CEO and co-founder, Stefan Lederer, to discuss how he found the show, the big trends he saw and what comes next! How was IBC 2022 for you? Busy! Which is how you want IBC to be! We had…
Bitmovin is one of the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the United States! I am incredibly proud to share that Bitmovin made the Inc 5000, which is a prestigious list of the most successful US businesses this week. It’s the second time we’ve appeared on the list, but I am still just as honoured and excited…
Viva Las NAB! After almost three years without a major industry trade show, being back in Las Vegas for NAB Show almost felt like a mirage because we had waited so long for it. Despite fewer attendees than in previous years and much-needed COVID-19 health and safety guidelines to protect our well-being and the newly…
In 2013, Bitmovin was launched out of research and standardization with the goal of shaping the future of video technology. We worked on streaming standards like MPEG-DASH, using playback and encoding tools in the scope of our research. And because we believe in openness and transparency in scientific work, we open-sourced our solutions for others…
As you may have heard, Bitmovin was recently honored with the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for the Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies for our innovative work on our AI/ML Per-Title Encoding solution. But before the music plays me off the stage for individually thanking all of the Bitmovers who made this possible….
MPEG-DASH sample streams and HLS test streams or m3u8 streams as they are often called, are important tools that you should have available throughout your development process. It’s good to have a variety of streams available when you are testing your adaptive streaming solution to ensure you are covering all aspects of your playback. We have collected…
One of the first questions when starting with adaptive streaming formats such as MPEG-DASH or HLS is how long do you generate the used media segments of the content. The segmentation of the content is necessary, as this enables the switching between the different video/audio qualities during the streaming session. The following figure gives a short…
A Message from the Bitmovin Founders To our loyal customers, partners, readers, friends, and hard-working Bitmovers; I hope everybody enjoyed a restful and calm holiday season – it was well deserved and much needed. 2019 was a rollercoaster, with challenges, mistakes, a lot of hard work and great accomplishments. Thank you for helping us shape the…
As many people have asked how to create MPEG-DASH content, e.g. to test it with the Bitmovin MPEG-DASH player, we will answer this question in this post. We also want to thank the GPAC Licensing team for featuring our blog post on their site. The Situation: Your pre-MP4Box DASH file A video is given in some…
After an exhilarating & successful experience as an exhibitor at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam for the fifth consecutive year, our CEO and Co-Founder, Stefan Lederer sat down with IBC365 Hall reporter David Davies to speak about the latest in video trends and future technologies. By all intents and purposes, Multi-Codec, Multi-Device solutions will drive the…
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