Category: VideoTech
Cutting-Edge Video Applications for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
To gain insight into the unstructured data of video, there are small and large companies alike working on building machine learning models for tasks like sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, topic segmentation, text...
Read MoreTechnical Challenges of the HBO Max Rollout
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: Can you talk a little bit about the biggest technical challenge that you undertook when it came to building HBO Max, and here at Streaming Media, we get a fairly technically savvy audience. And so we...
Read MoreOPSE: Online Per-Scene Encoding for Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming
In live streaming applications, typically a fixed set of bitrate-resolution pairs (known as a bitrate ladder) is used during the entire streaming session in order to avoid the additional latency to find scene transitions and...
Read MoreComment – Samsung Moves 8K LED Down in Size
The new pitch means that an 8K display can be made at 220″, substantially smaller than Samsung has made previously. Samsung launched its latest versions of ‘The Wall’narrow pitch LED technology at the recent ISE trade show and...
Read MoreCables for 8K
We’ll then look at USB Type-C and Thunderbolt, which can also support data, power, and other signals, as well as carrying HDMI and DisplayPort. There are two current output ports from consumer devices dedicated to video and...
Read MoreHDR in Depth
Figure 5 shows an example of SEI Mastering display colour volume and Content light level information for an HEVC video sequence: maximum nominal luminance 1,000 cd/m2, minimum nominal luminance 0.05 cd/m 2, MaxCLL 1,000 cd/m 2,...
Read MoreHow ATSC 3.0 is Driving New Revenue Streams
Alongside the significant enhancements in viewing experience, ATSC 3.0 brings further changes to linear television by creating opportunities for TV stations and TV manufacturers to explore new business models in a highly...
Read MoreBPG (Better Portable Graphics) Still Image Format
bpgenc – re-encode png or jpg file into bpg-format bpgdec – decode bpg-file into ppm or png
Read MoreOpenRTB 2.6 is Ready for Implementation
The recent additions to OpenRTB 2.6 are focused on connected TV and have been developed by IAB Tech Lab working closely with those involved in CTV auctions to design new specifications that allow publishers to present their...
Read MoreINCEPT: INTRA CU Depth Prediction for HEVC
At each depth level (or CU size), intra prediction via exhaustive mode search was exploited in HEVC to improve the encoding efficiency and result in a very high encoding time complexity. Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA,...
Read MoreThe Fine Art of Visualizing Experiment Results
Within explot, we created a standardized set of plots and tables that experimenters can use to generate results visualizations (see figures below for an example). With explot, we developed a flexible plotting library that let us...
Read MorePlayback of a DASH Multicast Stream in Dash.js Using the 5G-MAG Reference Tools
In this blog post we will explore an implementation that uses the 5G-MAG Reference Tools to receive a DASH multicast stream and provide the manifest files and the media segments to the dash.js player for final playback. Once new...
Read MoreEvolution of ML Fact Store
Axion fact store has four components — fact logging client, ETL, query client, and data quality infrastructure. This post will focus on the large volume of high-quality data stored in Axion — our fact store that is leveraged to...
Read MoreSurvey: 90% of Video Professionals Have Adopted Cloud and Remote Editing Workflows
The study, completed by Coretta Research, find that 90% of respondents said they have adopted cloud production and remote editing in their workflows, with collaborative working and client review and approval as the top use...
Read MoreUltra HD Forum Updates Guidelines to Include NDI, SRT, Colour Accuracy and Video Over IP
The Ultra HD Forum has published version 2.6 of its guidelines, including updates on colour accuracy, NGA production tools and workflows, ATSC 3.0, and the use of video over IP for UHD production. Version 2.6 has expanded the...
Read MoreCMAF Vs HLS Vs Dash: How to Monitor All Formats in Streaming
Apple is pushing HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-Dash is gaining a lot of traction, and CMAF is an attempt to solve the issues inherent in the other two formats. Given that there is no solution on the horizon to reduce format...
Read MoreScale Dictates Broadcasters’ IP Transition
Cost is often the most important consideration for station groups weighing an investment in 2110 versus buying new HD-SDI gear, says Jason Kornweiss, VP and GM of emerging technology & solutions for leading systems...
Read MoreStreaming Goals 2022: Lower Latency, Bigger Audiences, More Ad Revenue
Today’s video service providers are using DASH and HLS as the main formats to transmit streaming video to consumers’ internet-connected devices using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) delivery method. During these...
Read MoreThe Complete Guide to Closed Captions
An SRT file consists of a sequence of data blocks about extracted pictures: the number of the picture in the DVD subtitle track; a pair of timecodes for the start and stop time that the picture was shown on the DVD, separated by...
Read MoreLive Production 8K Video is Down to 48 Mpbs with 40 Mpbs Already in Spin Digital’s Sights
In this study, videos were encoded at different bitrates using a first-generation HEVC ASIC-based live encoder, and the perceived quality was evaluated through a subjective experiment. We asked Spin Digital’s Mauricio what...
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