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Stefan Lederer is a renowned innovator and thought leader in video streaming with a strong background in academic research. Stefan co-created the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard and has contributed to several open-source tools, including DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN and VLC plugin. Stefan also serves as an external lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt.
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…
Download now: The 2019 Video Developer Report reveals the immense growth opportunities today’s developers must evaluate and some of the major challenges they face. In its third year, the Bitmovin Video Developer Report provides key insights into the evolving technology trends of the digital video industry; we’ve also revamped the look and feel of the report!…
Bitmovin is the future of video cloud transcoding, providing a high performance cloud-service to transcode multimedia content at speed in excess of 100x real-time, even for highest 4k and 8k qualities. Cloud transcoding Bitmovin is a high-performance adaptive bitrate transcoding and streaming platform for cutting edge media formats such as MPEG-DASH and HLS, (including HLS 4k), which are…
2018 was an eventful year for the video streaming industry as a whole and especially for us here at Bitmovin! We introduced many new cutting-edge features including launching one of the first publicly released commercial AV1 encoders, Per-Title Encoding, Three-Pass Encoding, a brand new modular player and more. We’re proud to be at the forefront of shaping the future of online…
As content providers face increasing viewer expectations, we explore how can publishers deliver premium quality video while still reducing bandwidth consumption? Anyone working in video knows that along with fast startup and avoiding stalls (buffering), video quality is a key factor in satisfying your audience. We at Bitmovin have recently introduced three new ways video…
As one of the major browsers, Firefox officially released its support for the MSE in version 42, which is now available to the public and can be downloaded at the Firefox website! This is another step towards replacing Flash and adaptive streaming in HTML5. But what is the so called MSE and why is it…
Recently I participated in a panel on “Replacing Flash: Adaptive Streaming and DRM in HTML5”, presenting Bitmovin’s approach with the Bitmovin MPEG-DASH and HLS player to fully leverage the capabilities of HTML5 for high quality media streaming. This panel was organized and moderated by StreamingMedia.com’s well known streaming expert Jan Ozer at the Streaming Media East Show in New…
Due to superior browser support and device compatibility, MPEG-DASH is quickly becoming the industry’s preferred adaptive streaming standard. Since 2012, when MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, ISO/IEC 23009-1) was ratified by ISO/IEC MPEG, more and more browsers, TVs, smart phones, and devices, as well as manufacturers are adopting the standard. The benefits of a vendor independent, international and…
The recent news that YouTube has chosen HTML5 as their default playback option – rather than Flash which was used previously – got a lot of attention, including coverage from TechCrunch and TheVerge. However, not many know that YouTube also uses MPEG-DASH in HTML5 wherever it is possible (e.g. IE11, Chrome, Safari). Considering that Netflix is using MPEG-DASH…
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