Having advanced features such as cropping (changing the size of the video) available with MPEG-DASH and HLS, through a unified API with API clients for different languages can be very handy Streaming has become more complex in the last few years, with modern technologies such as MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) and Apple HTTP…
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…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or simply H.265 is the successor to Advanced Video Coding (AVC) also known as H.264, which is today one of the most used compression schemes on the Web – also adaptive streaming technologies, such as MPEG-DASH. HEVC also promises the same level of picture quality as its predecessor, but with better compression…
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…
Kronehit Livestream Following a successful live-streaming deployment around its 2-day continuous fundraising event, KRONEHIT, Austria’s only nationwide private radio broadcaster, uses the Bitmovin’s cloud-based encoding platform in combination with Bitmovin’s HTML5 Player to realize 24x7x365 live streaming in highest quality with MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) & Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). What are the…
HLS Encryption Bitmovin supports HLS encryption with AES-128 and SAMPLE-AES now. Bitmovin already supports DRM for MPEG-DASH with Widevine Modular and Microsoft PlayReady. The next logical step was to support encryption for HLS with AES-128 and SAMPLE-AES as well. How to Encrypt your HLS Content The easiest way to encrypt your HLS content using AES-128 or SAMPLE-AES…
PlayReady MPEG-DASH Bitmovin now supports PlayReady DRM with MPEG Common Encryption (MPEG-CENC) for MPEG-DASH streams. A few days ago we added Widevine Modular and now the next logical step was a PlayReady MPEG-DASH solution. It is also possible to combine Widevine Modular and PlayReady to encrypt your content once and be able to use it with both DRM…
Cloud Encoding with Bitmovin and Google Bitmovin is utilizing Google infrastructure to provide cloud video encoding 100x faster than any other encoding service. Our distributed software based encoding approach is not bound to any specific cloud provider but Google Compute Engine (GCE) provides great performance. This enables faster encoder provisioning and in the end decreased queuing delay for…
Encoding API with Comprehensive Documentation and API Clients Bitmovin offers a powerful cloud encoding service for developers with a comprehensive video encoding API. Don’t miss out on our developer section including comprehensive demos, tutorials and FAQs to help you get more familiar with our bitmovin products. API client implementations for different programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby,…
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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