Keywords: HTTP Adaptive Streaming, ABR Algorithms, Quality of Experience, Crowdsourcing, Subjective Evaluation, Objective Evaluation, MOS, (ITU-T) P.1203 Abstract: Adaptive BitRate (ABR) algorithms play a crucial role in...
Read MoreThe company looking at expanding its existing product lines — which comprise video encoding, a video player and analytics — and adding new product lines, potentially through M&A, he said. “We see every media company,...
Read MoreWith over 139 million paying customers, Netflix is very much in the bandwidth optimisation game. It keeps their costs down, it keeps customers’ costs down for those on metered tariffs and lower bitrate keeps the service more responsive. As we’ve… Continue Reading →
Read MoreEsports continues to push itself into to harness the best of IT and broadcast industries to bring largescale events to half a billion people annually. Natrually, the way this is done has changed with the pandemic, but the 10% annual… Continue Reading →
Read MoreIn live sports, a cut to or from ads can happen at a moment’s notice. Whilst not an issue for over-the-air broadcast, when you’re streaming it can be tough to get the ‘switch’ message out to the client in time.… Continue Reading →
Read MoreWorkflows changed when we moved from tapes to files, so it makes sense they will change as they increasingly move to the cloud. What if they changed to work in the cloud, but also benefited on-prem workflows at the same… Continue Reading →
Read MoreIn one year, programmatic advertising won’t be able to use third-party cookies. But how will the new infrastructure even work? To understand the Privacy Sandbox and its most fleshed-out proposal, TURTLEDOVE, CafeMedia Chief Strategy Officer Paul Bannister – who has spent hundreds of hours over the past year figuring out these proposals – has compiled … Continue reading »
Read MoreWe know AI is going to stick around. Whether it’s AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning or by another name, it all stacks up to the same thing: we’re breaking away from fixed algorithms where one equation ‘does it all’ to… Continue Reading →
Read MoreIt’s been a great year at The Broadcast Knowledge growing to over four thousand followers on social media and packing in 250 new articles. So what better time to look back at 2020’s most popular articles as we head into… Continue Reading →
Read MoreIt’s been a great year at The Broadcast Knowledge growing to over four thousand followers on social media and packing in 250 new articles. So what better time to look back at 2020’s most popular articles as we head into… Continue Reading →
Read MorePresented at Demuxed 2020. From: Demuxed
Read More…using off the shelf stuff in under 10 minutes. In this talk, we will show you how to build our soon to be released Streamline2 project. Streamline2 is an an end-to-end, broadcast quality 8k video streaming pipeline using parts available on Amazon Prime, open source components, and the public cloud or servers of your choice. It’s easy to set up, ultra high quality, and is a great basis to […]
Read MoreHow to make sure this industry stays in good hands As the world clamors for more video to stream, many of us are asked to rapidly scale our teams with people who are just as passionate as we are. In this presentation, we’ll cover the topic of how to onboard someone to the video streaming space. We know this industry is dense and there is no escaping its learning curve but positioning the nex[…]
Read MoreAlicia and Diane join Phil and Matt for a chat about the Women in Streaming Media group. The Women in Streaming Media (WSM), a group for women in the streaming media technology space, whose mission is to increase diversity and give more visibility to women leaders within the streaming media industry. Presented at Demuxed 2020. From: Demuxed
Read MoreIt began with a new job, spare time, and a penchant for impractical archaic media formats. After joining the Daily.co engineering team earlier this year, I had been eager to find a reason to try out our RTMP streaming feature. But what is worthy of a live stream from my apartment? That was the question I was pondering when I tripped over a milk crate of laserdiscs in my living room. Of cours[…]
Read MoreQUIC is *the* secure UDP-based transport for the modern Internet. It’s taken some time but in the 2019-2020 season, the IETF has edged ever closer to finishing "version 1". Vendors have been progressively deploying the poster child — HTTP/3 — onto the Web and its going to soon be the new normal. Now we need to see what’s hot in the upcoming 2020-2021 season. Eyes are turning to e[…]
Read MoreMost live video delivery solutions today are built using DASH/HLS or similar delivery formats with “classic“ CDN infrastructure providing scalability and players with relatively complex logic that includes fetching manifest and segments from network, estimating bandwidth, making ABR decisions. In this talk we would like to present an alternative architecture for live video streaming which dr[…]
Read MoreSome of you might have already stumled on HRD parameters in h.264/AVC or h.265/HEVC. In the open source encoders x264 and x265 these can be enabled using the –vbv-bitrate and –vbv-bufsize options. Also the AV1 standard specifies a buffer model. While these buffer models were designed with fixed transmission lines and hardware limitations in mind, we see some use of them in modern applicati[…]
Read MoreAlan answers the most important question Phil and Matt had while planning the Demuxed 2020 live stream – What codec should we use? Presented at Demuxed 2020. From: Demuxed
Read MoreWill go through the trials and tribulation of building and deploying an edge solution for multi-cdn decisioning, manifest based server side ad insertion and playback orchestration on the "edge". We will cover: * Going to the edge for delivery, not your sanity. * What is playback orchestration? Cost / Performance metrics globally * What does a edge performance journey look like. Sli[…]
Read MoreWhen presented with the requirement to build a "thumbnail scrub" feature we immediately were presented with a number of challenges to support across a dozen devices including gaming consoles and CTV. This talk is how we iterated through four options of a keyframe API, Sprite Sheet API webVTT and video I-FRAMES playlist as each presented benefits and disadvantages I’ll cover why we […]
Read MoreThere is a technical barrier to editing video which often needs the know-how of complex Non-Linear Editor (NLE) applications. But that barrier has now been significantly reduced by taking advantage of granular metadata, advances in web technologies, and a cameo from A.I. By leveraging in and out timecode per word generated by automatic speech recognition, you can now edit video in the browse[…]
Read MoreAnd yes, that includes MSS & single Period DASH! As broadcasters and content providers widen the reach of supported devices and platforms, multiple streaming formats are required. Inserting dynamic content, often targeted ads, is relatively straightforward for HLS and multi-Period DASH and there are a number of providers who can offer this. Enabling the broadest reach requires solving th[…]
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