How to Trust Your Player: Beyond Digital Rights Management – Video Watermarking Weighs In Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS Andy Wilson, Senior Product Architect, Friend MTS Chris O’Brien, Engineering Manager, Friend MTS In the continually evolving OTT world, we’ve established that savvy pirates are implementing new and advanced methods to steal valuable content…
Updates to the autoplay policies in Safari and Chrome could have significant implications for both advertisers and content providers As of September 2017, Safari 11 on macOS and iOS, as well as Chrome for Desktop and Mobile introduced a new auto-play policy. The main goal of these policies was to improve a user’s browsing experience…
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…
By Joshua Shulman, Alan Ogilvie, Ali Hodjat This article and video series, presented by Bitmovin, Friend MTS, and Intertrust, covers how to secure the delivery of your OTT Service content from origination all the way through to the end user via browser-based players. Following the best practices we outline, will ensure that you are protecting your content and revenue…
This blog post is continuation of an ongoing blog and webinar technical deep series. You can find the first blog post here. The first post covered the fundamentals of live low latency and defined chunked delivery methods with CMAF. This blog post expands on chunked CMAF delivery by explaining it’s application with MPEG-DASH to achieve low…
In the day and age of online streaming, Google Chromecast is probably the most affordable living room OTT solution on the market. Google originally introduced the dongle with the intent to connect phone apps to a not so “Smart” TVs back in the day, so users can stream content from their phones onto a larger…
Welcome back to Bitmovin’s Encoding Excellence series! Our first post covered why video quality metrics matter. The second post provided an “objective” introduction to the top three objective video quality metrics (see what we did there?). The third post in our Encoding Excellence series is an exploration of quality measurement methods (and their limitations) through…
Azure customers given complete access to rich set of cloud encoding and playback features from Bitmovin at IBC 2019 Bitmovin is excited to announce the integration of our world-class innovative cloud-based video streaming solutions, the Encoder and Player, with Microsoft’s Azure. Azure customers can now use encoding and player solutions from Bitmovin to create highly…
Bitmovin Player and Analytics: Better Together! Unlock the power of Bitmovin Analytics data across every Bitmovin Player instance, with just one click! Yes, it’s that simple. Watch this quick video to learn how to test both the Bitmovin Player and Analytics products with a free, 30 day trial. We’ve always believed in data driven development,…
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