MPEG-DASH sample streams and HLS test streams or m3u8 streams as they are often called, are important tools that you should have available throughout your development process. It’s good to have a variety of streams available when you are testing your adaptive streaming solution to ensure you are covering all aspects of your playback. We have collected…
One of the first questions when starting with adaptive streaming formats such as MPEG-DASH or HLS is how long do you generate the used media segments of the content. The segmentation of the content is necessary, as this enables the switching between the different video/audio qualities during the streaming session. The following figure gives a short…
As many people have asked how to create MPEG-DASH content, e.g. to test it with the Bitmovin MPEG-DASH player, we will answer this question in this post. We also want to thank the GPAC Licensing team for featuring our blog post on their site. The Situation: Your pre-MP4Box DASH file A video is given in some…
Video Bitrates for Streaming Choosing an appropriate streaming bitrate for a specific resolution, while maintaining an acceptable visual quality is not always that easy. The decision depends heavily on the content, e.g., motion, resolution, video bitrate, frame-rate etc. In adaptive streaming systems like MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)…
VP9 is the next level in video compression and can help you to save up to 50% on your CDN costs, or significantly increase the quality of your streams. We are happy to announce the introduction of full VP9 support for our HTML5 video player and our video encoder, both in the cloud as well…
Apple introduces fragmented MP4 in HLS – a small step for Apple but a huge step for video streaming services HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a very important part of our service, (as you can see from our latest HTML5 Player release) so when we heard the news from WWDC16, that Apple’s HLS protocol will be extended to support…
In the first part of this blog post we provided a rough overview of QUIC and HTTP/2 and how it can be used for DASH. In the second part we will provide details about the actual evaluation. Evaluation Setup The test content for the evaluation is Big Buck Bunny which has been encoded and segmented into…
The 4.4 release of our MPEG-DASH and HLS HTML5 player makes further advances in supporting HLS format video. ID3 tags now Supported for HLS HTML5/JS. ID3 tags allow you to deliver meta data to the player at predefined times in the video playback. The onMetadata event can be used to catch an event in the…
This is the third and final part of our series on high quality video streaming where we discuss the results of our experiments, our findings and conclusions that can be drawn from the data, particularly in relation to adaptive streaming with MPEG-DASH. Experimental Results The average media throughput in terms of bitrate [kbps] is shown in Figure 3….
The new Bitmovin adaptive streaming player release v4.3 enables HTML5/JS based HLS playback without the need for plugins like Flash or Silverlight An HLS Player without Plugins Within our brand new version 4.3 player release, we have added the support for native HTML5/JS based HLS playback and enabled the usage of persistent poster images, making the Bitmovin…
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