Video Bitrates for Streaming Choosing an appropriate streaming bitrate for a specific resolution, while maintaining an acceptable visual quality is not always that easy. The decision depends heavily on the content, e.g., motion, resolution, video bitrate, frame-rate etc. In adaptive streaming systems like MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)…
This year Apple announced at their WWDC conference support for HEVC/H.265 with HLS for macOS High Sierra and iOS11 Every year at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) they present updates and new features that will be available to their products soon. This year Apple announced support for HEVC/H.265 for macOS High Sierra and…
This guide will show you how to generate RFC compliant HLS to ensure you are playing smoothly on every Apple operating system and device Alongside MPEG-DASH, HLS, is one of the most popular streaming formats out there, and because it was initially created independently by Apple for their own environment, it is natively supported on…
Experience HLS Live and VoD 360º playback on all devices and monetize your content more efficiently with server side ad insertion, in Bitmovin’s 7th major player release. A new skin with new possibilities for customization, improved performance and the possibility to apply custom adaptation decisions, make our HTML5 Player version 7 faster and more versatile than…
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…
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…
Apple introduces fragmented MP4 in HLS – a small step for Apple but a huge step for video streaming services HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a very important part of our service, (as you can see from our latest HTML5 Player release) so when we heard the news from WWDC16, that Apple’s HLS protocol will be extended to support…
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 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…
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