Most media business professionals are naturally attracted to the idea of utilizing consumers’ ever-increasing data bandwidth, be it on home WiFi, cellular data, or other means of streaming video to the increasing array of consumer devices. Although that “last mile” part costs the content rights holder “nothing”, delivering a video streaming service worth paying for…
Restrictive autoplay policies in browsers were definitely one of the most disruptive changes that took place in 2018. While it was rolled out with the right intentions to help users enjoy their journey through the web, without being “annoyed” by loud, auto-playing audio/video content, it certainly sent website owners and video developers scrambling to make…
2018 was an eventful year for the video streaming industry as a whole and especially for us here at Bitmovin! We introduced many new cutting-edge features including launching one of the first publicly released commercial AV1 encoders, Per-Title Encoding, Three-Pass Encoding, a brand new modular player and more. We’re proud to be at the forefront of shaping the future of online…
The New Year started with yet another reminder that security should not be taken for granted, even for the most established products and services. At Bitmovin, security is top of mind for us even in cases where we’re not directly involved or responsible for the vulnerabilities. We consider it our responsibility to do whatever we…
When it comes to media, entertainment and technology, IBC is one of the world’s most influential shows . For us at Bitmovin, it is a great opportunity to demonstrate what our tech is capable of to a distinguished audience of industry experts. If you are coming to IBC this year, then the Bitmovin Stand 14.G09…
Meet Bitmovin in Amsterdam! IBC 2018 Stand 14.G09 Meet Bitmovin video experts in Amsterdam during the IBC Conference and Expo on September 14-18. Stop by our booth to see the latest video streaming tech coming from Bitmovin! Per-Title Encoding – Boost video streaming quality while reducing bandwidth! Per-Title Encoding is a powerful encoding optimization that can…
Bitmovin, in combination with our partners Irdeto, hosted a webinar to present the common approaches to Digital Rights Management in 2018 and the changes coming to common workflows with CMAF. The following is a brief summary of the topics discussed and solutions that were presented. View the Webinar An Overview of DRM The webinar begins by…
The full impact of the NAB Show 2018 is still settling in around Bitmovin’s global offices – record number of Bitmovers and meetings, bigger booth and more and bigger parties. But the real stars were the technologies revolutionizing video delivery on the internet. This year Bitmovin launched so many exciting innovations that it’s hard to…
Leveraging microservices and containers to create an advanced, scalable and powerful video encoding service. Video encoding is a complex and compute intensive task which is well suited to leverage the cloud thanks to its ability to quickly scale compute intensive operations. In other words, you can get massive computing power that scales very quickly to…
In a recent webinar, Bitmovin Product Manager Daniel Hölbling-Inzko spoke with our Developer Experience Manager Kieran Farr about using Per-Title Encoding optimization to achieve 200% better video quality while reducing delivery costs. Publishers and platforms with diverse content libraries have a big challenge – how to encode all this content to optimize for quality without…
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