In our latest major release of the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player we have introduced interactive video ads using VPAID 2.0, enhanced our VR and 360° video support to cover all major browsers and further improved performance relating to startup and switching times. Interactive Advertising with VPAID 2.0 Besides conventional playback, handling of advertisements is one of the most…
Player version 5.1 uses available bandwidth more efficiently, providing better quality video and increased user experience. New Adaptation Logic for Faster Startup and Optimised Bandwidth Utilisation The main job of an adaptive streaming player is to ensure that the video plays at the highest possible quality. As bandwidth conditions change, the player needs to adjust the…
The fifth major release of our Adaptive Streaming Player now plays HLS in HTML5 on all major browsers and comes with enhanced reporting and analytics. HTML5 by Default for HLS As stated in one of our recent posts on html5 adaptive streaming, there is an ongoing trend towards replacing Flash in today’s web based media streaming applications….
The 4.4 release of our MPEG-DASH and HLS HTML5 player makes further advances in supporting HLS format video. ID3 tags now Supported for HLS HTML5/JS. ID3 tags allow you to deliver meta data to the player at predefined times in the video playback. The onMetadata event can be used to catch an event in the…
The new Bitmovin adaptive streaming player release v4.3 enables HTML5/JS based HLS playback without the need for plugins like Flash or Silverlight An HLS Player without Plugins Within our brand new version 4.3 player release, we have added the support for native HTML5/JS based HLS playback and enabled the usage of persistent poster images, making the Bitmovin…
We are happy to announce our brand new 4.2 adaptive streaming player release which comes with a lot of new features and enhancements around adaptive streaming, DRM and VR We now support Adobe Access and Adobe PrimeTime protected streams, third party licensing servers and dynamic ad scheduling during runtime. The various API extensions, within v4.2 make…
Please note: As of January 2016 we are now referring to bitdash as the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player. You can read more about the Bitmovin rebranding here. In our second release of version 3, bitdash (the Bitmovin Player) ships with support for timed metadata in ID3 format for HLS and enhanced configuration possibilities to tailor the Bitmovin Player to…
Recently we added several features to the Bitmovin encoding service, including the ability to watermark your video streams. This enables our users to brand their streams in several ways using PNGs, JPGs or even GIFs. You can also set the exact position of your image in the video stream. The watermarking is part of our…
Closed Captioning Closed captioning is the process of adding text to to video files allowing the user to read along with the audio. This is usually employed to assist hearing impaired viewers, but also has other applications. Closed captioning is an important part of delivering online video and Bitmovin’s API is fully capable of managing your CC needs. Contact us for…
Build a Mediaplayer App for Android The Bitmovin Android streaming media player (Bitmovin API) is an example based on ExoPlayer that connects with your Bitmovin account, shows your encodings, and lets you stream these encodings to your Android mobile. It can be easily modified to build your own Android application using MPEG-DASH encodings from Bitmovin….
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