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Advancing Error Reporting Across iOS, tvOS & visionOS with the Bitmovin Player

For developers working on streaming apps across Apple platforms, error resolution has often felt like chasing shadows. Playback interruptions might show up as vague “Operation couldn’t be completed” messages, offering little guidance for debugging or pattern recognition. When every second of viewer downtime impacts QoE and revenue, these generic error codes don’t just slow teams…

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Build vs. Buy: The Real Cost of In-House VOD Encoding Workflow for Streaming Platforms

When streaming VOD content, whether you’re just launching a streaming service or operating a global enterprise platform, your encoding workflow is essential to how your content plays back and is available to your audience wherever they are viewing from. Many teams initially build their workflows in-house using different options that are available for free. For…

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Developers Innovation

Leveraging AI Models to Enhance Accessibility with Sign Language in Video Streams

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 key…

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Providing a Premium Audio Experience in HLS with the Bitmovin Encoder

Introduction Many streaming providers are looking for ways to offer a more premium and high quality experience to their users. One often overlooked component in streaming quality is audio – and more specifically which audio bitrates, channel layouts, and even audio languages are available and how these options can be delivered to the viewers on…

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Video Platforms, Video Streaming APIs, and SDKs Explained

Building video into products and services is tough. Businesses need robust streaming infrastructure to store, encode, manage, deliver, and analyze video content. Plus, most dev teams have expertise in their company’s core competency rather than back-end video technology. 

That’s where online video platforms (OVPs), video streaming application programming interfaces (APIs), and software development kits (SDKs) come into play.

In this guide we take a look at each solution in turn to help identify the right approach for you and your team.

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How to Create a FAST Channel in Minutes with Eyevinn Technology

With the rise of open-source technologies and cloud platforms, launching your own FAST channel is more accessible than ever. The Open Source Cloud, with its array of tools and services, offers a comprehensive environment to deploy a FAST Channel Engine. This guest post from Eyevinn Technology guides you through the process of setting up a FAST channel using the FAST Channel Engine within the Open Source Cloud with content preparation using Bitmovin Streams.

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Developers

HTML5 Video Tags: The Ultimate Guide [2024]

Streaming video over the web or on connected TV devices are two main ways viewers watch their favorite content. To engage those audiences and provide them with the best experience, development teams typically choose to deploy an HTML5-based video player (see our latest blog on top HTML5 video players) that can be tailored to specific…

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Encoding VR and 360 Immersive Video for Meta Quest Headsets

This article was originally published in April 2023. It was updated Nov 14, 2023 with information about Quest 3 AV1 support. Whether you’re calling it Virtual Reality (VR) or 360 video or Metaverse content, there are a lot of details that should be taken into consideration in order to guarantee a good immersive experience. Things…

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Under the Hood of Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) – The Challenges of Implementing Ad Monetization Technologies

As the demand for video streaming escalates, so does the cost associated with maintaining and delivering high-quality content to viewers. Broadcasters, OTT Platforms, and any industry streaming video over the Internet are actively seeking robust monetization strategies to sustain and expand their businesses. While Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) and Transactional Video On Demand (TVOD)…

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