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This is a complete guide to Container File formats in 2022, created by some of the world’s leading video engineers and experts here at Bitmovin. We’ve created this guide to give you everything you need to know about container files, from basic terminology to advanced deep-dives into different container file types. You can go ahead…
Preface Bitmovin isn’t the only organization whose sole purpose is to shape the future of video – a few senior developers at Bitmovin along with me are active members of the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG). Personally, I have been a member and attendant of MPEG for 15+ years and have been documenting the progress…
State of VVC Video Codec So it’s happening. After their previous work on h.264/AVC and h.265/HEVC, the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) have again joined forces to create another video codec named Versatile Video Coding (VVC). The first goal for the VVC Video Codec was to significantly…
Bitmovin was delighted to learn recently that its General Counsel, Ken Carter, was selected as Corporate Counsel’s Start-up Solo GC of the Year – 2021. One aspect of Ken’s work the Award recognized was his and his student interns’ work to create legal advice giving Slackbots. True to Bitmovin’s mantra that “all wins are team…
Preface Bitmovin isn’t the only organization whose sole purpose is to shape the future of video – a few senior developers at Bitmovin along with me are active members of the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG). Personally, I have been a member and attendant of MPEG for 15+ years and have been documenting the progress…
Preface Bitmovin isn’t the only organization whose sole purpose is to shape the future of video – a few senior developers at Bitmovin along with me are active members of the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG). Personally, I have been a member and attendant of MPEG for 15+ years and have been documenting the progress…
Part III – The Epic Battle of CPU Architectures: AMD vs ARM vs Intel Selecting, implementing, and running a CPU architecture is one of the most critical steps to running a successful Software or Product as a Service (SaaS or PaaS) organization as it’s the basis of how service will function. At the time of…
Part II – Applying Docker Tags to ARM The Journey from x86 to ARM continues As I covered in the first installment of our Journey from x86 to ARM series, the first major step for migrating a CPU Architecture is to update all relevant library dependencies that are compiled and optimized for one architecture to…
Part I – Updating Library Dependencies from x86 to ARM ARM CPU architectures have been in the news a lot recently: Apple announced that they are going to use ARM processors and ditch Intel. Cloud computing platforms such as AWS are offering instances with ARM. It seems like there is a significant shift in the…
On a mission to slim down Docker images As an engineer, one thing that you should know when working with Docker images is that they can result in large files/folders. Docker has an established set of best practices that you can apply to reduce the size of your images. However, there are still some additional…
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