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Lower bandwidth, higher quality with Per-Scene Adaptation
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Per-Scene Adaptation: Going Beyond Bitrate

Adaptation Based on Video Context or “Per-Scene Adaptation”, reduces bandwidth consumption by adjusting the bitrate stream to the minimum bitrate required to maintain perfect visual quality for every segment within your video. Since Netflix began customizing their encoding ladder in order to optimize each of their titles individually, the idea of “Per-Title Encoding” has been…

Multi-codec streaming for bandwidth reduction and quality optimization
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Efficient Multi-Codec Support for OTT Services: H.264/HEVC/VP9 and/or AV1?

By encoding your videos using a multi-codec approach you can double the quality while still reducing your bandwidth consumption and maintaining maximum device reach. In the spectrum of online video, you probably already know that H.264 (also known as AVC) is ubiquitous. Nearly every device and operating system supports decoding either on hardware or software….

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Containerized Video Encoding Definition: What is it and what are the advantages?

Containerization has opened up new possibilities in performance and efficiency and is a perfect fit for video encoding The difference between containerization and virtualization? Server-side technology has been on a steep development curve over recent years, as architects and system engineers have worked to streamline and optimize their workflows, as well as improve the performance…

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Stream Conditions for Video Encoding Workflows

When an input file doesn’t fit your encoding profile settings, it can cause problems. Stream Conditions allow you to automatically deal with this on the fly, saving you processing power and encoding time. In a standard video encoding workflow, the profile configurations tell the encoder which streams to generate for each video. In some situations,…

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Simple User Tracking with Bitmovin’s Adaptive Streaming Player and Google Analytics

This blog post will show you how to integrate the Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player with Google Analytics. For most commercial websites, Google Analytics is a must have. It is easy to install, and provides great insights into page views, traffic sources, user behaviour, user technology, goal conversions and much, much more. But when it comes…

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Bitmovin’s Developer Focused Analytics

Achieving high quality, reliable and buffer free online video streaming is a difficult task. A developer focused analytics solution can make the job much easier. At first glance video streaming looks easy – Netflix, Amazon and Youtube are doing it successfully so it can’t be that hard, right? You just use industry leading streaming standards…

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