Backbone settles dependencies (chiefly WebdriverIO and its sub-packages) and provides utility functions and browser configurations that are useful to teams at Vimeo in a generic way. However, at Vimeo, we use a private GitHub...
Read MoreThe issue with this solution is two-fold as the consumer must know and provide every single required field in a Production even if they just want to update one field such as the format. In our previous post, we discussed how we...
Read MoreBitmovin, the world leader in digital video technology, today announced that Globo, the largest mass media group in Latin America, is now streaming Ultra HD 8K HDR to its digital subscribers using Bitmovin’s proprietary encoding...
Read MoreWith this in mind we have worked with Datalab (our in-house BBC machine learning specialists) to create an algorithm-based video recommendations engine which we hope will help our audience see more of the content they love...
Read MoreThe question, then, is how to ensure business continuity through a disaster recovery site that gets the channel on air in the shortest possible time, that can be operated from anywhere, and involves the least amount of...
Read MoreAiming to make multi-stream video transcoding with resolutions up to 4K Ultra HD easier and more cost effective, AWS has announced the availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances. Featuring networking interfaces of up to 25 Gbps...
Read MoreOne especially attractive part of a Paved Road approach for security teams with a large portfolio is that it helps turn lots of questions into a boolean proposition: Instead of “ Tell me how your app does this important security...
Read MoreIn this FFmpeg tutorial, we shall understand how to change the audio codec in a media file from one codec/container to another without changing the video. Transcoding Audio using FFmpeg (Change Audio Codecs Without Changing the...
Read MoreFrom our experience, one of the most common group of errors are the ones related to media decoding resulting in a thrown by the HTML5 video element. By that, we account for potentially broken media-segments that can not be...
Read MoreThis post identifies the H.264 versions also created by YouTube for 1080p and larger videos for devices incompatible with VP9 and AV1. “What if my device does not support AV1, and I click on a video with millions of view counts...
Read MoreThis beginner’s guide to encoding H.264 will describe what H.264 is, detail the critical compatibility-related parameters, and show how to encode to H.264 for adaptive bitrate streaming, live streaming, and creating mezzanine...
Read MoreHere we go through the most important encoding and packaging parameters as well as buffer size and discuss their impact on latency, video quality, bandwidth consumption and the resiliency to the network variations. In general,...
Read MoreThe number alone is remarkable, but when you consider that each sensor is continuously collecting and processing data, including content and ad metrics, from any device that can play video, that number becomes downright...
Read MoreUnder this definition, QoS measures the performance of the delivery infrastructure, including third-party or internal content delivery networks (CDN), usually tracking data like overall throughput, latency, error rates, and...
Read MoreEnter the Disney+ ADK, where we have taken our ground-up build of NCPv2 and created a clean abstraction layer and built a well documented program for our distributors, who know their hardware and software best, to port our...
Read MoreDASH-IF’s Content Protection Information Exchange Format (CPIX) specification, now in version 2.3 and initially released in 2015, is certainly the best hidden gem of the industry, as it allowed video packagers to use a unique...
Read MoreIt is a wide framework with multiple options to support for implementers, doesn’t include a standard API to carry the XML documents, and covered only the DASH use case at that time (not the HLS and Smooth Streaming ones). Until...
Read MoreThe most predominant method of content acquisition from satellites is CCcam card-sharing (also called control word sharing), which can affect all satellite providers that use DVB-CSA scrambling. Live content on OTT platforms can...
Read MoreGiven this parameters setting, when the program calls the function “packager.Initialize(…)”, the Shaka SDK will create a demuxer handler for demultiplexing the input, and a muxer handler for multiplexing/packaging the output in...
Read MoreKeywords : HEVC, Coding Tree Unit, Complexity, CTU Partitioning, Statistics, Machine Learning In this paper, existing CTU depth decision algorithms for HEVC are surveyed.
Read MoreThe new player is already live on BBC Weather, BBC Food and BBC Motorsport for most browsers as it begins to incrementally roll out over the coming months – Safari and iPhones will be supported in due course. We are pleased to...
Read MoreYet the lure of HTTP was greater than the lure of truly efficient at-scale video streaming, so the second age of World Wide Web traffic contained even more TCP to the exclusion of UDP. I’m going to delve into HTTP/3 and...
Read MoreThe report provides the economic analysis for long-run effective aggregate decoder rates for VVC over a 5-year period of $0.10 for streaming devices, $0.08 for connected TVs, and $0.05 mobile terminals when VVC’s performance is...
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