Practical Super-Resolution Deployments and Ensuing Results Introduction Welcome to Part 3 of Bitmovin’s Video Tech Deep Dive series: “Super-Resolution with Machine learning”. Before you continuing with this post, I would highly recommend that you view the first two installments: Part 1 : Super-Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter? Part 2 : Super-Resolution:…
What is per-title encoding? By encoding video at bitrates appropriate to the content of the video file, content providers can make significant bandwidth savings as well as quality improvements. Introduction Per-Title Encoding is not a new concept. In fact, you can find research online that dates back several years, including this 2012 presentation: Choosing the…
Growing demand for elevated viewing experiences at home Over the course of the past few years, consumers, video content providers, and electronic device producers alike have been pushing the boundaries of what each considers a higher quality of viewer experience; Ranging from the user-friendliness of an application to improved content recommendations to the highest resolution…
This article was a collaborative article written by Bitmovin & Teleport Media | Authors: Andrei Klimenko, CEO, Teleport Media & Joshua Shulman, Content Marketer, Bitmovin Streamed content is the future of video viewing. With that in mind, the quality of the video content and the viewers’ quality of experience (QoE) become key success factors for…
On a mission to slim down Docker images As an engineer, one thing that you should know when working with Docker images is that they can result in large files/folders. Docker has an established set of best practices that you can apply to reduce the size of your images. However, there are still some additional…
Updates to the autoplay policies in Safari and Chrome could have significant implications for both advertisers and content providers As of September 2017, Safari 11 on macOS and iOS, as well as Chrome for Desktop and Mobile introduced a new auto-play policy. The main goal of these policies was to improve a user’s browsing experience…
Launching a new or revamped OTT service requires a lot of complex back-end workflow builds, including, but not limited to moving to a new encoder. The process of implementing a new encoder can often add further complexity and consume time to configure the encoder to work for your specific use case. However, this doesn’t have…
This is the second article from the collaborative content series by Bitmovin, Intertrust, and FriendMTS. This post was originally written and hosted by Intertrust. Authors: Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust Nicolas Bredy, Senior Solutions Architect, Intertrust Overview of Online Piracy and Digital Rights As discussed in the first article of our series on “How…
This blog post is the final piece of our Live Low-Latency Streaming series, where we previously covered the basic principles of low-latency streaming in OTT and LL-DASH. This final post focuses on latency when using Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol and how the latency time can be reduced. This article assumes that you are…
For an APAC live event, our video coding engineer Christian Feldmann compared the HEVC (H.265) vs VP9. During the session, we discussed the fundamental differences between the two “modern codecs” and tied it off with an early analysis of each codec’s performance. These results were obtained using the open-source encoders libvpx-vp9, x264, and x265. This…
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