An in-depth look at the Bitmovin Per-Title Bitrate Ladder Benchmark Tool
The Per-Title Ladder Bitrate Benchmark Tool is a great way to test the benefits of Per-Title encoding with your own video content. This post explains the test results. Since the launch of the Per-Title Bitrate Ladder Benchmark Tool in the Bitmovin dashboard, we have been pleased to see how many of you have tested Per-Title…
App Development with the Roku SDK from Bitmovin
Roku is a leading platform for video delivery, but Roku development can be a challenge for even the most experienced programmers. The new Bitmovin Roku SDK is a great place to start. Why Roku? There are a lot of video streaming platforms on the market today, but in our opinion Roku stands out as one…
HTML5 Player Vs Native Player in App Development
In his recent presentation at the Demuxed conference for video engineers, Bitmovin solution architect, James Yeh, looked at the pros and cons of delivering video to mobile devices using an HTML5 player versus using the native player. Streaming video to mobile devices In our recent video developer survey, we found that the vast majority of…
Low Latency Streaming: What is it and How can it be solved?
Latency is a major challenge for the online video industry. This article takes us through what latency is, why it’s important for streaming and how CMAF low latency streaming can help to solve the problems. Live stream “latency” is the time delay between the transmission of actual live content from the source to when it…
Using a Per-Title Bitrate Ladder to Optimize Encoding – Try our new Benchmark Tool!
Per-Title Encoding offers greatly reduced bitrates without compromising (and even increasing) quality. Bitmovin has just released a Benchmark Tool which helps you to optimize your encoding workflow.
Get Ready for a Multi-Codec World
In the last decade, the tech industry has rallied around one codec for streaming video files over the internet: MPEG’s AVC/H.264. Now the market is moving toward a new generation of video codecs that offer 30% to 70% better compression than H.264. Is your team ready to transition? Adopting the new generation compression is important…
How to Build Out Video Capabilities for Your App in the Age of APIs
Snapchat. Instagram stories. LinkedIn autoplay. Video, the next wave of communication. Consumer communication trends often have an impact on product development, as app creators cater to the ways users expect to interact both with their products and each other. Developers have to accommodate these requests and it’s not a problem we can ignore. Here’s why:…
Control Your Video Encoding Queue with Priorities
With Bitmovin’s new encoding priority setting, you can assign a priority from 0 to 100 to every job that you send to your encoder In most video encoding workflows the encoder will crunch through the queue on a “first in first out” basis. For an enterprise operation that can be overly simple and inflexible, especially…
25 New and Improved Online Video Delivery Demos
Our new online demo section showcases a great range of Bitmovin video delivery solutions for encoding, player and analytics. The video demo section on or website has always ranked among our most popular content, and with good reason. Not only does it showcase our products, but many of our online demonstrations are useful development tools…
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