We’ve opened up our Video Player API to handle all features of client-side advertising directly in the API. The move to the API level allows for more flexibility and customization and paves the way for emerging use cases. Content providers of all sizes rely on advertising to generate revenue, so playing ads flawlessly in the…
The Bitmovin Player is now equipped with facial recognition software that allows the player logic to adapt to viewers behavior. A Little About User Interfaces Ever since the world’s first computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), went online in 1946, computers have been designed to respond to human input. ENIAC’s human interface was a…
San Francisco, CA – Tuesday March 27th, 2018 – Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, announces the launch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered encoding, dramatically speeding up processing and enabling service providers to deliver significant improvements in video quality. AI-enabled Encoding will be demonstrated for the first time at the Bitmovin booth (SU9901CM) at the NAB…
It’s already been a busy new year for the Bitmovin team! Since the release of our dashboard last year in September we have been working on features like team management, API key and license name control to make managing your account easier. We added a dashboard overview page so you can easily monitor usage statistics,…
Delivering a perfect user experience to your audience is not only complicated, but a constantly moving goalpost. Analytics can help you to keep your development on the right track. The key to building a successful video platform is great content. But great content served poorly is a huge problem. If your users have to wait…
Use the new low-level network API to influence all network requests for advanced use cases and maximize your ad fill rates and increase your revenue with ad waterfalling. Network API The new network API provides methods to fully customize each and every request to the network. It allows the the preprocessing of every request before…
For the past few months, the frontend team at Bitmovin has been working hard to bring you our new web dashboard. The new dashboard is based on the unified Bitmovin API that we released earlier this year. It incorporates all of Bitmovin’s video infrastructure services and fits a wide array of end-to-end video workflows. Since…
The 7.2 release is yet another great step forward for the Bitmovin Player team, and among a host of impressive new updates, contains at least one new feature that could be a game changer for the industry. Per-Scene Adaptation Per-Scene Adaptation, as the name suggests, enables the player to optimize the stream based on the…
Play on devices including Apple TV, control your Chromecast with built-in cast controls on your Android phone, continue watching when a CDN becomes unavailable, synchronize slides with HLS streams and more! The release of the Bitmovin Player v7.1 is yet another big step forward in usability. We have reworked the handling of remote players and in…
Bitmovin’s native mobile SDKs provide a unified UI and configuration which ensures a consistent presentation and user experience across all devices. As more and more users are watching video using apps, we at Bitmovin focus on developing native SDKs for our customers to make it easier to provide a unified video experience across all platforms…
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