Bitmovin is going Live! We’ve expanded on our award-winning VoD encoding engine to build a live encoding solution that is more resilient and cost efficient than anything before. Ready to run on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, the Bitmovin Live Event Encoder frees you from vendor lock-in and allows you to migrate or build multi-cloud…
In the latest news from Bitmovin, we will launch the first category product suite at IBC focused on ensuring Playback for audiences across devices and simplifying deployment and optimization for developers. Why Does This Matter? Guaranteeing Playback quality is challenging, especially when development teams have multiple priorities they have to account for before they launch…
At long last, we are happy to announce the beta version of our new Bitmovin CDN Streaming storage! Great, how does Bitmovin’s CDN Streaming storage help me? In the past, using the Bitmovin encoder meant you needed to provide your own output storage for your encoding jobs and then configure your own CDN for streaming…
**Updated in March 2022** Since 2017, Bitmovin has actively worked in video and streaming standardization and has consistently driven standards from inception to implementation. Our founders co-created the MPEG-DASH streaming standard used by Netflix, YouTube, and many others, which is responsible for over 50% of peak U.S. internet traffic. Given our encoding, virtualization, and codec…
Launching & managing a streaming service in today’s market can be a bit overwhelming and I know right now you’re saying “Duh Adam, thanks for the groundbreaking opinion” but it’s not for the reasons you would normally think – workflow. It’s actually about the number of devices you and your team have the capability of…
If one looks at video and audio encodings like H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1 and all of the things that are associated with it, it can be very easy to get lost. There are millions of possible configurations and figuring out the right one can be a difficult task. The Bitmovin API makes it possible to…
Since the release of player version v5.2, Bitmovin has improved support for HLS streams, including playback on Chromecast and enhanced DRM handling. This support carries across to the latest implementation – Web SDK v8 Chromecast HLS Playback After introducing HLS streaming to our HTML5 based player, we took the next step and ported it to…
In our content-driven world – it’s of utmost importance to deliver consistent and high-quality content within reasonable budget limitations. A factor that most content creators and distributors may not consider is the high price potential of encoding. When uploading a video, it’s encoded into a collection of renditions, each suitable for a typical range of…
Unlock machine learning capabilities, our latest experimental feature, with one click According to Bitmovin’s 2019 video developer survey, over half of the respondents shared their plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the next two years. Developers are counting on machine learning technologies to automate encoding workflows, tagging and personalizing delivery…
Bitmovin Player and Analytics: Better Together! Unlock the power of Bitmovin Analytics data across every Bitmovin Player instance, with just one click! Yes, it’s that simple. Watch this quick video to learn how to test both the Bitmovin Player and Analytics products with a free, 30 day trial. We’ve always believed in data driven development,…
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