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Why Android Set-Top Boxes Are Critical to the Future of OTT (and How Bitmovin Helps Get Them Right)

Set-top boxes (STBs) remain central to streaming strategies for broadcasters, telecom operators, and OTT providers globally, providing for viewers who value a consistent TV experience with a familiar remote control interaction. These devices span multiple operating systems, including Android, RDK, and Linux, each with unique technical characteristics and user-experience considerations. Among these, Android-powered set-top boxes…

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Hackathon spotlight: bringing Media over QUIC into Bitmovin’s Live Encoder

TL;DR Live streaming protocols have long been shaped by the constraints of TCP. RTMP and SRT both work around those constraints in different ways, but neither was designed for the low-latency, resilient delivery that modern live streaming demands. MoQ (Media over QUIC Transport) takes a different approach: built natively on QUIC and WebTransport, packet loss,…

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Hackathon Spotlight: AI-Powered Ad Insertion Using Generative Video Models

Advertising in video has not changed much in decades. You watch content, it stops, an ad plays, and then your content resumes. For viewers, that interruption breaks immersion and trains people to tune out the moment a cut happens. The assumption baked into this model is that interruption is just the price of doing business on both sides. I think generative AI gives us a real opportunity to question that.

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Live Encoder Standby Pools: How to Eliminate Queue Time and Go Live Instantly

Cloud encoder provisioning is live streaming’s most quietly worked-around problem. When a broadcast triggers, the cloud allocates a machine, deploys software, and only then is the encoder ready, an unpredictable delay that breaks news teams, sports platforms, and UGC services have long patched with lead-time buffers and over-provisioning. This post explains why that structural problem exists and how Bitmovin’s Live Encoder Standby Pools solve it with pre-configured, instantly available encoders held in a ready state before they are ever needed.

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