For developers working on streaming apps across Apple platforms, error resolution has often felt like chasing shadows. Playback interruptions might show up as vague “Operation couldn’t be completed” messages, offering little guidance for debugging or pattern recognition. When every second of viewer downtime impacts QoE and revenue, these generic error codes don’t just slow teams…
Super Bowl LIX was the most-streamed NFL event in history, reaching over 15.5 million peak concurrent viewers on FOX’s ad-supported platform, Tubi. That level of viewership brings enormous technical pressure to deliver smooth, reliable playback across a wide range of devices. Achieving this at scale requires a highly optimized streaming stack, where every component performs…
Bitmovin Analytics provides valuable insights that can take the performance and efficiency of your video streaming workflow to new levels. By leveraging Analytics, you can optimize encoding profiles, improve player performance, gain deeper understanding of audience behavior, and ultimately, deliver a superior viewing experience while managing costs effectively. This blog post will explore seven ways…
In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the importance of collaboration has never been clearer. At Bitmovin, we have long championed the belief that the best solutions emerge when industry leaders join forces. Our recent NAB 2024 showcase underscored this belief, and as we approach IBC 2024 in Amsterdam, we are excited to highlight how our…
The dust has now settled from NAB, and I am still looking back in awe at the success of the Bitmovin Innovators Network and the community that we’ve built, together. A personal highlight for me was our exclusive semi-annual Bitmovin Innovators Network Partner Executive Networking Event which had over 100 attendees who joined to learn…
Building video into products and services is tough. Businesses need robust streaming infrastructure to store, encode, manage, deliver, and analyze video content. Plus, most dev teams have expertise in their company’s core competency rather than back-end video technology.
That’s where online video platforms (OVPs), video streaming application programming interfaces (APIs), and software development kits (SDKs) come into play.
In this guide we take a look at each solution in turn to help identify the right approach for you and your team.
Introduction At a recent internal hackathon, two of Bitmovin’s software engineers, Myriam Gantner and Thomas Sablattnig, explored whether AI could be used to process the large volume of data captured by Bitmovin Analytics into concise summaries and recommendations. The project was a success and is now being developed into a feature that is now available…
Video streaming has emerged as a powerful tool in health and fitness, enabling platforms to engage with individuals looking to achieve their health and wellness goals wherever they are. Whether in the comfort of their homes, on the go, or gathered in groups at physical locations around the globe, video streaming unlocks a new world…
Religious and faith-based video streaming has gained significant popularity in recent years as a powerful way to connect and engage with a broad global audience. A considerable amount of adoption happened recently when the world was in lockdown and people still wanted to “attend” their house of worship prayers or engage with religious content. However,…
We’re currently living in the golden age of information, data, and analytics, but I don’t necessarily need to tell you that. The caveat of living in a golden age of anything is that there often is an over-abundance of a certain resource – in the case of our audience and customers, that’s video data. And…
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