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Sustainable Subscriptions – Revenue Success and Churn Prevention in a Pandemic
Introductory note from Ben Morrell, Contributing Author, OTTVerse.com In this open-ended series, I will speak to key industry players, customers, and experts who have an influence on the outstandingly diverse…
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Resize/Scale/Change Resolution of a Video using FFmpeg Easily
In this FFmpeg tutorial, we learn to change the resolution of a video (or resize/scale a video) using FFmpeg’s commandline tool. Changing a video’s resolution…
Sustainable Subscriptions – Revenue Success and Churn Prevention in a Pandemic
Introductory note from Ben Morrell, Contributing Author, OTTVerse.com In this open-ended series, I will speak to key industry players, customers, and experts who have an…
What is VPAID (Video Player-Ad Interface Definition)
VPAID (Video Player-Ad Interface Definition) provides the tools to advertisers to serve rich media and interactive ads to users. It differs from VAST (Video Ad Serving…
VAST Tags – Deep Dive with Examples
Advertising-based monetization (AVOD – Advertising-Based Video On Demand or Ad Insertion in linear/live TV) is a critical revenue generator for hundreds of publishers and content…
HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) – Everything You Need to Know
HDCP stands for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection created to protect digitally copyrighted content in its journey via a cable (HDMI, DVI) from a device like…
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) – How Does it Work?
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) refers to technology embedded into OTT applications or SmartTVs that recognizes the content that you are watching by sampling small portions…
CuriosityStream and Tata Sky Tie Up
In a recent press release, CuriosityStream announced that they are tieing up with Tata Sky to bring CuriosityStream’s award-winning, factual content to Indian customers via…
EasyVMAF: Running VMAF In The Wild
VMAF is one of the most popular tools for video quality assessment, and it is well on its way to becoming a standard reference metric…
Encoding.com With Beamr’s CABR for Up to 50% Bitrate Reduction
In this edition of Industry Spotlight, we take a look at two innovative companies – Encoding.com and Beamr – that have joined forces to improve…
Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
It’s time for the holidays and what better way to share love and memories with your family than to create an old-school, vintage movie? You…
Calculate PSNR, VMAF, SSIM using FFmpeg
In this article, let’s learn to compute VMAF, PSNR, and SSIM using FFmpeg. While working on videos (compression or post-processing), it is common to compute…
Stack Videos Horizontally, Vertically, in a Grid With FFmpeg
Often times, when you want to compare two videos side-by-side or you want to create an effect during post-processing, you might want to stack videos…
How does HLS Video Streaming Work?
HLS or HTTP Live Streaming is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate video streaming protocol introduced by Apple in 2006 that describes a set of tools and…
AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, PVOD – Video On Demand Monetization Demystified
Advertising VOD, Subscription VOD, Transactional VOD, Premium VOD are different monetization models in the Video On Demand (VOD) ecosystem and represent different ways of engaging…
Add, Remove, Extract, Replace Audio using FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a super-powerful tool to add, remove, extract, or replace the audio in your video files. If you have a copy of FFmpeg installed…