The following tutorial will show you how to perform an encoding with the Bitmovin API and setup multiple players to playback the encoded content. The Bitmovin encoding platform can be used with a multitude of video players, including, but not limited to the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player. This blog post will walk you through the…
Introduction The main challenge that your adaptive streaming player faces is to keep the users engaged by choosing the ‘optimal’ representation (quality level) of the video. This always leads to a trade-off between providing the best possible quality, minimizing the startup time and avoiding buffering. If the user’s bandwidth conditions are not perfect, optimizing one…
The following tutorial will show you how to set up offline playback using Bitmovin and ExpressPlay DRM. On 30th November 2016 Netflix announced the support for offline playback, which has been one of the most requested features from the Netflix user base. With this new feature users are now able, not only to playback content…
By using a single package format you can reduce your encoding, packaging and storage costs by halve and decrease your CDN costs by up to 10% as fMP4 has less overhead than MPEG-TS At this years Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2016), Apple introduced fragmented MP4 (fMP4) for HLS. Although this announcement was not such a…
Integrate BuyDRM with the Bitmovin Cloud Encoder This tutorial will show you how to create an encoding with MultiDRM protection using the KeyOS MultiKeyTM Service from BuyDRM as your DRM key provider. Furthermore, you can use our native HTML5 Bitmovin player to play your DRM protected content on every device out there. The following sections…
The following tutorial will show you how to use Axinom DRM together with the Bitmovin Cloud Encoding system to create a video distribution platform, ready to target multiple devices and browsers. By following this tutorial and using the supporting links that you will find below, you can create a video on demand service with the…
Our new notification service gives you real time status updates on your video encodings with RESThooks. Have you ever been on a family holiday and had your kids nagging you the entire way: “Are we there yet, are we there yet!?”. If you have, then you have some idea what it is like for an application trying to find…
In November 2015 Microsoft open sourced the .NET framework to make it cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, perhaps making it a very interesting API Client for your next project. We already offer a great range of API clients for our encoding service for adaptive streaming video, including node.js, ruby, javascript, php, python, java, and we are constantly…
Thanks to MOZVR and their A-Frame JavaScript framework, you can now create a completely immersive web experience in standard web browsers. Usually when you think Virtual Reality or 360° you expect to open a video or some sort of software application. Thanks to MozVR’s A-FRAME, the internet is now available in Virtual Reality format, which means…
Apple introduces fragmented MP4 in HLS – a small step for Apple but a huge step for video streaming services HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a very important part of our service, (as you can see from our latest HTML5 Player release) so when we heard the news from WWDC16, that Apple’s HLS protocol will be extended to support…
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