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,…
**Updated in 2021** Apple surprised the video ecosystem in January 2018 by joining the Alliance for Open Media, the consortium standardizing the next-generation video codec AV1. As of 2021, the consortium has made significant improvements to the application and reach of the open standard codec, with at least 11% of Global Video Developers indicating plans…
The Content Everywhere Hall is where you can find the engines that drive the video industry. Here’s a look back at what we saw in Hall 14 and what people were asking for at the Bitmovin stand. IBC 2017 was an enormous event with some truly mind blowing technology on display. 14 halls, chock-full of…
We asked 380 video developers worldwide about the video technologies they use in their daily work, what they plan to use in the next 12 months, and what problems they experience the most. It’s interesting what we’ve learned! Download the Video Developer Report First and foremost, we’d like to thank everyone for making the 2017…
This September Bitmovin will be exhibiting once again at the IBC show with a comprehensive range of live demonstrations to showcase our state of the art video encoding, playback and analytics solutions. Come and see us at booth: 14.E17. After winning a “Best of NAB Show” award this April in Las Vegas with the world’s…
This year Apple announced at their WWDC conference support for HEVC/H.265 with HLS for macOS High Sierra and iOS11 Every year at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) they present updates and new features that will be available to their products soon. This year Apple announced support for HEVC/H.265 for macOS High Sierra and…
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…
Benefit from our fast encoding speeds and flexible API, while leveraging your own hardware or cloud infrastructure. When we released Bitmovin Containerized Encoding a few months ago our goal was to enable our customers to benefit from our fast encoding speeds and flexible API, while at the same time being able to leverage your own…
Last week over a hundred thousand broadcasters and industry vendors descended on Las Vegas, including the Bitmovin team. We know that everything that happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but the news we have from the show is just too good not to share! It’s not just the bigger (and still crowded)…
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…
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