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VidTech

The Essential Guide to SCTE-35 

SCTE-35 is the backbone of ad insertion and program control in modern video streaming, but few people outside of broadcast engineering truly understand how it works. This essential guide covers everything: what SCTE-35 is, where it came from, the key marker types, how cues are carried in MPEG-TS, HLS, and MPEG-DASH streams, and how platforms use it to trigger dynamic ad insertion, program boundaries, and regional blackouts. It also walks through Bitmovin’s own SCTE-35 support for both live and VOD encoding workflows.

VidTech

WWDC 2024 HLS Updates for Video Developers

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is an annual event used to showcase new software and technologies in the Apple ecosystem. It was created with developers in mind, but sometimes new hardware and devices are announced and its keynote presentations have become must-see events for a much wider audience. There is also usually news about changes and…

Product Updates

Streamlining Video Playback: Unveiling Bitmovin’s Player SDK for Flutter

Developing mobile applications, particularly with video streaming included, can present significant challenges depending on how it’s done. Smaller development teams or those without extensive video technical expertise may find it straining and affect their deployment/launch timeline. Traditionally, creating professional applications for both iOS and Android requires experienced developers proficient in the native code languages. However,…

Innovation

Unlocking the Highest Quality of Experience with Common-Media-Client-Data (CMCD) – What Is It and What Are the Benefits

As video workflows get more detailed, companies face numerous challenges in delivering a seamless viewing experience to their audiences. One of the biggest hurdles is the ability to make sense of disjointed sets of information from different points in the video delivery workflow. When a client experiences buffering or other playback issues, it can be…

Innovation

Completing the WebRTC Playback Experience – Enabling Rewind During Real-Time Live Streams

Live streaming has solidified its role as a pivotal component of modern video workflows, enabling platforms and media companies to captivate audiences with that sense of witnessing events as they happen. This trend has gained even greater momentum during and after the pandemic, as users craved live experiences that spanned a variety of interests –…

VidTech

Everything you need to know about Apple’s new Managed Media Source

At their 2023 Worldwide Developer conference, Apple announced a new Managed Media Source API. This post will explain the new functionality and improvements over prior methods that will enable more efficient video streaming and longer battery life for iOS devices. Keep reading to learn more. Background and the “old” MSE The first internet videos…

Product Updates

Player Version V7 & V8 is Chromecast HLS Compatible with Enhanced DRM Support

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…

Developers

Optimal Adaptive Streaming Formats MPEG-DASH & HLS Segment Length

TL;DR One of the first questions when starting with adaptive streaming formats such as MPEG-DASH or HLS is how long do you generate the used media segments of the content. The segmentation of the content is necessary, as this enables the switching between the different video/audio qualities during the streaming session. The following figure gives a…

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