It’s not a secret, the world of video technology looms largely in the shadows of back-end development. In this shadowy realm, there is a constant battle amongst developers to find and implement the highest quality and lowest file size video format container. In this article, we cover the history, definitions, and outlook of these containers…
Quality of Experience (QoE) in Video Technology [2022 Guide] Welcome to our comprehensive guide to Quality of Experience in video technology. If you’re looking for the following: Why QoE in Video Matters Today QoE and Revenue Loss Statistics Video Encoders and QoE Quality Assessment Scoring Methods Encoding Choices and QoE Then you are in the…
Advances in broadband and mobile technologies have made online video consumption an everyday experience for many internet users. Over sixty percent of US households subscribe to a video streaming service and global digital video viewership is on track to reach over three billion viewers by 2023. With this increase in demand, video content needs to be delivered…
Distributing video content in 2021 can be a nightmare considering the number of different platforms and devices that exist today. OTT (over-the-top) devices are rapidly diversifying and allowing customers to use lower-priced devices for streaming content. In this article, I’ll walk you through some of the major OTT devices and platforms, how they’ve changed over…
Cloud-Based Workflows with AWS: Plugging in the Video Player and Video Analytics In the first two parts of this series on using Bitmovin’s Per-Title Encoding on AWS, we’ve focused on the architecture of the application and setting up encoding using Bitmovin Cloud Connect. But now that we have our encoded videos saved to Amazon S3, what’s…
Smart TVs are the new normal (along with the pandemic, of course). This gigantic market is now worth more than $109 billion worldwide. Stats like that should be unsurprising, as more than 90 percent (respectively) of US households own a television. And this year, with many governments around the world mandating stay-at-home orders, TV companies…
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…
As anyone involved in the video workflow development process might tell you, getting high-quality content to prospective consumers is not an easy build and requires many input factors. Some of the oft-overlooked and possibly more complex factors are the content protection measures that ensure the video isn’t being pirated. According to our 2020 Video Developer…
How to Trust Your Player: Building an OTT Service for Today’s World Article 5 – From one end to the other: Protecting content from origination to playback, once and for all Joshua Shulman, Digital Marketing Specialist, Bitmovin Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust Technologies Any player in the…
How to Trust Your Player: Beyond Digital Rights Management – Video Watermarking Weighs In Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS Andy Wilson, Senior Product Architect, Friend MTS Chris O’Brien, Engineering Manager, Friend MTS In the continually evolving OTT world, we’ve established that savvy pirates are implementing new and advanced methods to steal valuable content…
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