The world of video technology is constantly evolving, and one of the more interesting developments in recent years is the story of MV-HEVC (Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding). Even though it was added to the HEVC specification in 2014, MV-HEVC didn’t see much commercial use for almost a decade. That changed when Apple launched the…
Whether you’re calling it Virtual Reality (VR) or 360 video or Metaverse content, there are a lot of details that should be taken into consideration in order to guarantee a good immersive experience. Things like video resolution, bitrates and codec settings all need to be set in a way that creates a high quality of experience for the viewers, while being conscious of storage and delivery costs that can come with these huge files. Although all this stuff has been widely discussed for 2D displays…
Tile-Based Streaming is set to play a major role in delivering VR and 360 video to mainstream audiences by reducing bandwidth requirements, reducing costs and vastly increasing accessibility. Bitmovin engineers and co-founders Mario Graf (@grafmar_io), Christian Timmerer (@timse7), and Christopher Mueller (@chris_bitmovin) have been awarded the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan….
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