Welcome to our encoding definition and adaptive bitrate guide. This article is for anyone seeking a way into the world of Video Technology and Development, or for those of you looking for a quick refresher on the key terms that define the industry. You’ll learn exactly what encoding is and some of the most important…
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…
This is a comprehensive guide to lossy compression algorithms. In this detailed post, we’ll cover the following topics: An Introduction to Lossy Compression Lossy Compression Ratios & Metrics in Digital Video Perceptual Distortion Peak-Signal-To-Noise Ratio (PSNR) Lossy Compression: the “two” step process Step 1: Quantization Step 2: Transform coding Wavelet Transformation 2D Haar Transform So,…
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…
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…
Co- Founder Feature: Happy World Standards Day 2019 – Video Standards Create a Global Stage Today, October 14, 2019, we celebrate the World Standards Day, “the day honors the efforts of the thousands of experts who develop voluntary standards within standards development organizations” (SDOs). Many SDOs such as W3C, IETF, ITU, ISO (incl. JPEG and MPEG) celebrate this with individual statements, highlighting the importance of standards…
The necessity for streaming capabilities amongst video content distributors is at an all-time high! Consumers and developers alike are racing to find and distribute the best content at their disposal. Unfortunately, this high demand for video content is often undermined by a lack of security around original content. As a result, creators and distributors alike…
At WWDC17 Apple presented updates and new features that will be available to their products soon including HEVC in HLS This year Apple announced support for HEVC/H.265 for macOS High Sierra and iOS11. The release of iOS 11 is expected to happen soon after Apple’s iPhone 8 launch event on September 12th. Considering the fact…
By using a single package format you can reduce your encoding, packaging and storage costs by halve and decrease your CDN costs by up to 10% as fMP4 has less overhead than MPEG-TS At this years Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2016), Apple introduced fragmented MP4 (fMP4) for HLS. Although this announcement was not such a…
Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Apple HLS) is a widely used adaptive HTTP streaming protocol available as IETF Internet Draft. It is mainly targeted towards mobile devices based on iOS such as iPhone, iPad or AppleTV, as well as at OS X desktop computers. Apple’s Internet browser Safari also accepts HLS streams as the source of the HTML5 <Video> tag,…
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