Launching a new or revamped OTT service requires a lot of complex back-end workflow builds, including, but not limited to moving to a new encoder. The process of implementing a new encoder can often add further complexity and consume time to configure the encoder to work for your specific use case. However, this doesn’t have…
This is the second article from the collaborative content series by Bitmovin, Intertrust, and FriendMTS. This post was originally written and hosted by Intertrust. Authors: Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust Nicolas Bredy, Senior Solutions Architect, Intertrust Overview of Online Piracy and Digital Rights As discussed in the first article of our series on “How…
This blog post is the final piece of our Live Low-Latency Streaming series, where we previously covered the basic principles of low-latency streaming in OTT and LL-DASH. This final post focuses on latency when using Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol and how the latency time can be reduced. This article assumes that you are…
TL;DR For an APAC live event, our video coding engineer Christian Feldmann compared the HEVC (H.265) vs VP9. During the session, we discussed the fundamental differences between the two “modern codecs” and tied it off with an early analysis of each codec’s performance. These results were obtained using the open-source encoders libvpx-vp9, x264, and x265….
This article was co-authored by Dalet’s Solutions Architect, Brett Chambers, and Bitmovin’s Solution Director APAC, Adrian Britton Not all content is created equal, especially when you’re a publishing house and your content arrives from multiple sources. But that doesn’t mean that your viewer’s quality of experience (QoE) needs to suffer as a result. In this…
Multi-Codec World is here and now Two years ago we published the blog post “Get ready for a multi-codec world”. With the official launch of H.266 (VVC) and the progression of future codecs like AV1 and VP9, it’s a good time to revisit the state of the multi-codec world, and why it’s important to your…
Super-Resolution: Why is it good and how can you incorporate it? Introduction Welcome to Part 2 of Bitmovin’s Video Tech Deep Dive series: Super-Resolution with Machine learning. Before you get started, I highly recommend that you read Part 1. But if you would rather prefer to directly jump into it, here is a quick summary: …
This blog post is continuation of an ongoing blog and webinar technical deep series. You can find the first blog post here. The first post covered the fundamentals of live low latency and defined chunked delivery methods with CMAF. This blog post expands on chunked CMAF delivery by explaining it’s application with MPEG-DASH to achieve low…
TL;DR In the day and age of online streaming, Google Chromecast is probably the most affordable living room OTT solution on the market. Google originally introduced the dongle with the intent to connect phone apps to a not so “Smart” TVs back in the day, so users can stream content from their phones onto a…
TL;DR In the previous series of posts, we set a baseline of compression knowledge by defining how lossy compression algorithms work for images and breaking down the JPEG image standard. Now that we’ve covered our image compression basics, it’s time to move up to the next level with video -as you might have guessed –…
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