TL;DR Dolby Vision Profile 10 brings premium HDR capabilities to AV1, but support across encoding and playback workflows is still developing. With support for Dolby Vision Profiles 10.0 and 10.1 in its VOD Encoder, Bitmovin is helping streaming platforms adopt this emerging format as part of their AV1 delivery workflows. Available now in the current…
TL;DR In Bitmovin’s testing, the AV1 codec in Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder Version 3 reached the same VMAF as Bitmovin’s first generation HEVC codec with 23% less bitrate on a static ladder. It needed 27% less bitrate (median across 14 clips) than AWS Elemental MediaConvert’s AV1 codec. AV1 promises big bitrate savings, but how much it…
Jan Ozer’s independent test found higher measured quality, lower bitrate and less storage with Bitmovin’s Per-Title H.264 TL;DR Independent testing by video compression expert Jan Ozer found that Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder delivered higher measured video quality and greater bitrate efficiency than a VOD encoding SaaS product from an industry-leading public cloud provider in an H.264…
Encoder Version 3 is the next major release of the technology behind Bitmovin’s VOD and Live Encoders. It brings new HEVC and AV1 codecs tuned for Per-Title Encoding, an MCP server that lets your AI agent read your encodings, Media over QUIC for sub-second live, and AV1 priced in line with HEVC. New HEVC matches your current quality at 15.5% lower bitrate. AV1 needs 30.6% fewer bits than the current HEVC encoder at the same speed.
Bitmovin’s AI Scene Analysis now tags every scene and sends those signals to Google Ad Manager with each ad request. What if every ad break carried signals about what was happening on screen, instead of relying only on title-level metadata? If you run ad revenue for a streaming service, you know your catalog better than…
Every time a viewer presses pause, they create an ad slot that didn’t exist a moment before. Pause ads fill that slot with a sponsored message, shown only while playback is stopped and dismissed when the viewer resumes, so no content is interrupted and the ad has the screen to itself whenever the viewer looks…
TL;DR We recently published A Vision For Video Streaming Into AI Assistants, where we set out why we believe AI assistants will become the first place people go to find something to watch, and what it would take to get video playing inside the conversation rather than sending viewers elsewhere. A few days later, at…
Two events happened in Amsterdam last week and the two were more closely related than many people realize. The two events were: The first event was attended by publishers representing some of the most valuable media content in the world, and secondly the people who are building the next generation of protocols enabling AI assistants…
TL;DR For much of FAST’s early growth, channel expansion was a major measure of progress. Channel counts are still climbing and existing libraries keep turning into new lineups, but launching a channel is no longer the differentiator it once was. The harder question is what happens once that channel is live and running 24/7. Reliability,…
TL;DR A passenger watching video while the vehicle is moving, a driver watching during a fifteen-minute charging stop, and two kids watching two different rear-seat streams are four completely different viewing contexts happening in the same trip. Treating that as one device with a single viewer experience misses what is actually changing. Each of those…
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