Bitmovin’s native mobile SDKs provide a unified UI and configuration which ensures a consistent presentation and user experience across all devices. As more and more users are watching video using apps, we at Bitmovin focus on developing native SDKs for our customers to make it easier to provide a unified video experience across all platforms…
Bypassing adblocking software with Server-Side Ad Insertion and increase ad revenues by up to 25%. For the past five years, there’s been a massive improvement and growth pattern in online video advertising towards an encoding or server-side approach to inserting ads, also known as Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) to bypass adblocking software. In contrast to…
The following tutorial will show you how to perform an encoding with the Bitmovin API and setup multiple players to playback the encoded content. The Bitmovin encoding platform can be used with a multitude of video players, including, but not limited to the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player. This blog post will walk you through the…
This June Google will cease development of Flash in the IMA SDKs ending support for the IMA SDK for Flash and Flash VPAID ads in the HTML5 SDK Google has recently announced that as of June 1, 2017, they will cease development of Flash in the IMA SDKs. This will not only end support in…
Introduction The main challenge that your adaptive streaming player faces is to keep the users engaged by choosing the ‘optimal’ representation (quality level) of the video. This always leads to a trade-off between providing the best possible quality, minimizing the startup time and avoiding buffering. If the user’s bandwidth conditions are not perfect, optimizing one…
A beautifully designed and customizable HTML5 video player delivering brilliant user experiences on every device. As they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and in the case of an HTML5 video player, that impression starts before your customers even hit the play button. This is why our latest release includes…
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…
As an online video provider, your player is a huge part of your product. It facilitates and enhances the user experience, and like a good basketball referee, if it does a good job, no-one thinks about it. If it does a bad job, then the complaints will never end. With the recent developments in HTML5…
Virtual Reality (VR) has gained a lot of momentum recently which has called standards development organizations (SDOs) into action including the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In this post we’d like to highlight the current status of this development, what MPEG is doing and what else is going on in this (not so) new and…
In our latest major release of the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player we have introduced interactive video ads using VPAID 2.0, enhanced our VR and 360° video support to cover all major browsers and further improved performance relating to startup and switching times. Interactive Advertising with VPAID 2.0 Besides conventional playback, handling of advertisements is one of the most…
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