Over the past 3-4 years, each industry that streams video has changed significantly. Depending on the company’s size, cloud adoption for streaming workloads before 2020 was driven by leading-edge “builders” with the technical expertise and in-house resources to experiment. Now, we’re in an era of early mainstream adoption led by “buyers” looking for comprehensive, reliable,…
Introduction The story of Bitmovin began with video research and innovation back in 2012, when our co-founders Stefan Lederer and Christopher Mueller were students at Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt. Together with their professor Dr. Christian Timmerer, the three co-founded Bitmovin in 2013, with their research providing the foundation for Bitmovin’s groundbreaking MPEG-DASH player and Per-Title Encoding….
As video workflows get more detailed, companies face numerous challenges in delivering a seamless viewing experience to their audiences. One of the biggest hurdles is the ability to make sense of disjointed sets of information from different points in the video delivery workflow. When a client experiences buffering or other playback issues, it can be…
Live streaming has solidified its role as a pivotal component of modern video workflows, enabling platforms and media companies to captivate audiences with that sense of witnessing events as they happen. This trend has gained even greater momentum during and after the pandemic, as users craved live experiences that spanned a variety of interests –…
At IBC 2023 the Fraunhofer HHI, Spin Digital and Bitmovin are presenting a paper on the practical application of a new feature that was introduced in VVC: Open-GOP resolution switching. In this blog post I want to explain what open-GOP (Group of Pictures) prediction is, what the benefits are and why with VVC open-GOP prediction…
Over the past few months, we’ve given insight into how we were evolving as a team and updating the Bitmovin Player for the future with our past blogs on “Why Structured Concurrency Matters for Developers” and “Developing a Video Player with Structured Concurrency”. In this third and final installment, the moment has finally come to…
Introduction Bitmovin was born from research performed by our co-founders at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) and many of the innovations powering our products today are the direct result of the ongoing ATHENA project collaboration between Bitmovin engineers and the Christian Doppler Laboratory at AAU. This post takes a closer look at our recent combined efforts researching…
Introduction One of the main benefits of using a cloud-based SaaS product is the freedom to experiment, pivot and react to changes in your business without the overhead cost and time of buying and maintaining your own systems. The cloud lets you adjust on the fly and can scale infinitely and on-demand to meet your…
A few months ago, Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt announced a new collaboration on a research project called GAIA, which aims to make video streaming more sustainable. Project ‘GAIA’ is co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and will focus on helping the video-streaming industry reduce its carbon footprint. Dr Christian Timmerer is…
For online prediction in live streaming applications, selecting low-complexity features is critical to ensure low-latency video streaming without disruptions. For each frame/ video/ video segment, two features, i.e., the average texture energy and the average gradient of the texture energy are determined. A DCT-based energy function is introduced to determine the block-wise texture of each…
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