Everyone knows what a jpeg is! It’s an image of course. Yes and No – JPEG is the acronym that sits at the end of your picture file on your favorite device. You must be thinking, “Hold on one second, if it’s not the actual image, and it’s an acronym, what is it and what…
TL;DR This scientific evaluation puts AV1 to the test against industry standard codecs and shows that AV1 is able to outperform VP9 and even HEVC by up to 40% Introduction For practical Over-the-top (OTT) streaming applications it is mostly necessary to supply streams using multiple different video codec standards in order to stream to a…
TL;DR This is a comprehensive and detailed guide to Lossy Compression algorithms. Here you will find everything a developer needs to know about this cutting-edge topic, in a a guide created by some of the most advanced video technology experts and engineers. Take your time to read through the whole resource, or just skip to…
Introduction In modern times of software development, the deployment of applications became as important as writing these programs. There are many tools out there that make the whole process of deploying an app to a system very easy and intuitive – Docker is one of them. In certain cases the speed of the deployment is…
What is Transcoding? In the context of video – Transcoding refers to the process of compressing video files as much as possible at minimal quality loss to represent (and transfer) information by using less data. Essentially, video transcoding online is the conversion of a video file from one format to a better-compressed version to ensure…
TL;DR What is VVC? Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the most recent international video coding standard which was finalized in July of 2020. It is the successor to High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) as it was also developed jointly by the ITU-T and ISO/IEC. So what is really new in VVC? Is this a real revolution…
With 2020 coming into full swing – it’s time for Bitmovin and our engineering teams to not only reflect on the past year but also to celebrate the growth of standards in the development industry for the past half-century. December 2019 was a historic month for computing – as it was the official month when…
As many people have asked how to create MPEG-DASH content, e.g. to test it with the Bitmovin MPEG-DASH player, we will answer this question in this post. We also want to thank the GPAC Licensing team for featuring our blog post on their site. The Situation: Your pre-MP4Box DASH file A video is given in some…
Welcome back to Bitmovin’s Encoding Excellence series! Our first post covered why video quality metrics matter. The second post provided an “objective” introduction to the top three objective video quality metrics (see what we did there?). The third post in our Encoding Excellence series is an exploration of quality measurement methods (and their limitations) through…
Welcome back! In our first instalment of the Memory Series – pt. 1, we reviewed the basics of Java’s Internals, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the memory regions found within, garbage collection, and how memory leaks might happen in cloud instances. In this second post we cover more in-depth facets of cloud storage as it pertains…
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