Looking for the Bitdash player? Bitdash is now known as The Bitmovin HTML5 Player. In 2016 we made some changes to the way we communicate our brand and our products. Bitdash is a well known HTML5 adaptive streaming player, and you used to find it on our product website at dash-player.com. In order to simplify our message we…
PULS 4 Success Story PULS 4 is the leading private TV broadcaster in Austria. They offer linear TV as well as live streams at www.puls4.com. PULS 4 is part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group. Bitmovin provides cloud-based encoding services as well as the HTML5 and Flash video player ensuring a reliable webcast of the PULS…
Kronehit Livestream Following a successful live-streaming deployment around its 2-day continuous fundraising event, KRONEHIT, Austria’s only nationwide private radio broadcaster, uses the Bitmovin’s cloud-based encoding platform in combination with Bitmovin’s HTML5 Player to realize 24x7x365 live streaming in highest quality with MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) & Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). What are the…
PlayReady MPEG-DASH Bitmovin now supports PlayReady DRM with MPEG Common Encryption (MPEG-CENC) for MPEG-DASH streams. A few days ago we added Widevine Modular and now the next logical step was a PlayReady MPEG-DASH solution. It is also possible to combine Widevine Modular and PlayReady to encrypt your content once and be able to use it with both DRM…
Cloud Encoding with Bitmovin and Google Bitmovin is utilizing Google infrastructure to provide cloud video encoding 100x faster than any other encoding service. Our distributed software based encoding approach is not bound to any specific cloud provider but Google Compute Engine (GCE) provides great performance. This enables faster encoder provisioning and in the end decreased queuing delay for…
Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Apple HLS) is a widely used adaptive HTTP streaming protocol available as IETF Internet Draft. It is mainly targeted towards mobile devices based on iOS such as iPhone, iPad or AppleTV, as well as at OS X desktop computers. Apple’s Internet browser Safari also accepts HLS streams as the source of the HTML5 <Video> tag,…
Flimmit is a 100% cloud-based Video on Demand (VoD) service and currently offers over 4,000 movies in MPEG-DASH and HLS format. In summer 2014, ORF‘s (Austria’s national public broadcaster) subsidiaries ORF Enterprise and ORS comm became stakeholders of Flimmit. Bitmovin does the VOD encoding of over 4,000 video assets, the VoD streaming and the playback…
In 2008, Microsoft announced the release of the new Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 with a new adaptive HTTP streaming feature called Smooth Streaming, targeting the smooth delivery of HD content to the client. Their Silverlight based client continually detects the available bandwidth conditions as well as CPU utilization and playback window resolution to decide…
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