Bitmovin Video Player v8 marks the transition to a module-based approach, allowing developers to load only the features they need. The New Modular Player? Version 8.0 includes a range of improvements, but one of the most significant is a shift to a modular architecture. While previous versions relied on a fixed structure, which shipped all…
We’ve opened up our Video Player API to handle all features of client-side advertising directly in the API. The move to the API level allows for more flexibility and customization and paves the way for emerging use cases. Content providers of all sizes rely on advertising to generate revenue, so playing ads flawlessly in the…
Online video publishers that decide to launch a mobile app are faced with a decision between reusing their HTML5 player, building a completely native playback experience, or a combination of both approaches. Initially, it may seem easiest to re-use your HTML5 player, but that is not always the best option from evidence we’ve seen in…
Steve Jobs was the first to announce Adobe Flash’s impending doom during the reveal of the original iPhone in 2007. Since then, plenty of ink has been spilled about Flash’s impending death, seemingly always just a few years on the horizon as browser makers chipped away at support for the ubiquitous multimedia plugin. Now, finally,…
It’s already been a busy new year for the Bitmovin team! Since the release of our dashboard last year in September we have been working on features like team management, API key and license name control to make managing your account easier. We added a dashboard overview page so you can easily monitor usage statistics,…
Delivering video to every device, every platform and every browser has become one of the biggest challenges in video. OTT, TVE and SVOD Traditional video entertainment continues to be disrupted by Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services in major markets worldwide and Pay TV service operators and broadcasters fully understand that OTT and TVE are…
Use the new low-level network API to influence all network requests for advanced use cases and maximize your ad fill rates and increase your revenue with ad waterfalling. Network API The new network API provides methods to fully customize each and every request to the network. It allows the the preprocessing of every request before…
The 7.2 release is yet another great step forward for the Bitmovin Player team, and among a host of impressive new updates, contains at least one new feature that could be a game changer for the industry. Per-Scene Adaptation Per-Scene Adaptation, as the name suggests, enables the player to optimize the stream based on the…
This guide discusses considerations for creating premium content protection strategy for premium content providers and includes an in-depth overview of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. Bitmovin’s CEO, Stefan Lederer, and myself, Solutions Architect Paul MacDougall, together with David Eisenbacher of our partners EZDRM, were pleased to present an in-depth look at the state of Digital…
Play on devices including Apple TV, control your Chromecast with built-in cast controls on your Android phone, continue watching when a CDN becomes unavailable, synchronize slides with HLS streams and more! The release of the Bitmovin Player v7.1 is yet another big step forward in usability. We have reworked the handling of remote players and in…
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