Roku is a leading platform for video delivery, but Roku development can be a challenge for even the most experienced programmers. The new Bitmovin Roku SDK is a great place to start. Why Roku? There are a lot of video streaming platforms on the market today, but in our opinion Roku stands out as one…
In his recent presentation at the Demuxed conference for video engineers, Bitmovin solution architect, James Yeh, looked at the pros and cons of delivering video to mobile devices using an HTML5 player versus using the native player. Streaming video to mobile devices In our recent video developer survey, we found that the vast majority of…
Latency is a major challenge for the online video industry. This article takes us through what latency is, why it’s important for streaming and how CMAF low latency streaming can help to solve the problems. Live stream “latency” is the time delay between the transmission of actual live content from the source to when it…
Per-Title Encoding offers greatly reduced bitrates without compromising (and even increasing) quality. Bitmovin has just released a Benchmark Tool which helps you to optimize your encoding workflow.
In the last decade, the tech industry has rallied around one codec for streaming video files over the internet: MPEG’s AVC/H.264. Now the market is moving toward a new generation of video codecs that offer 30% to 70% better compression than H.264. Is your team ready to transition? Adopting the new generation compression is important…
Snapchat. Instagram stories. LinkedIn autoplay. Video, the next wave of communication. Consumer communication trends often have an impact on product development, as app creators cater to the ways users expect to interact both with their products and each other. Developers have to accommodate these requests and it’s not a problem we can ignore. Here’s why:…
With Bitmovin’s new encoding priority setting, you can assign a priority from 0 to 100 to every job that you send to your encoder In most video encoding workflows the encoder will crunch through the queue on a “first in first out” basis. For an enterprise operation that can be overly simple and inflexible, especially…
Our new online demo section showcases a great range of Bitmovin video delivery solutions for encoding, player and analytics. The video demo section on or website has always ranked among our most popular content, and with good reason. Not only does it showcase our products, but many of our online demonstrations are useful development tools…
Online video publishers that decide to launch a mobile app are faced with a decision between reusing their HTML5 player, building a completely native playback experience, or a combination of both approaches. Initially, it may seem easiest to re-use your HTML5 player, but that is not always the best option from evidence we’ve seen in…
As content providers face increasing viewer expectations, we explore how can publishers deliver premium quality video while still reducing bandwidth consumption? Anyone working in video knows that along with fast startup and avoiding stalls (buffering), video quality is a key factor in satisfying your audience. We at Bitmovin have recently introduced three new ways video…
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