DRM
Apple FairPlay Streaming DRM – How Does It Work?
In this edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to DRM, we take a look at the FairPlay Streaming DRM solution from […]
Month: August 2020
DRM
EME, CDM, AES, CENC, and Keys – The Essential Building Blocks of DRM
Anyone trying to understand DRM (Digital Rights Management) will be confronted with acronyms such as AES, CDM, CENC, EME, etc. […]
DRM
What is DRM (Digital Rights Management) in Video Streaming? Easy explanation here
In video streaming, DRM or Digital Rights Management is a system that uses encryption to protect video content, specialized techniques […]
Compression
Discrete Cosine Transform in Video Compression – Explain Like I’m 5
The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is arguably the most fundamental tool in modern image and video compression. The DCT is […]
Compression
What is Video Pre-processing in Encoders?
Video Pre-Processing is a very important step in any commercial encoder where several important operations such as de-interlacing, up/down-sampling, denoising, etc. […]
Compression
What’s a Video Codec? Everything you need to know
A video codec is a software or hardware component that is used to encode and decode video data. It is […]
FFmpeg
FFmpeg drawtext filter to Insert Dynamic Overlays, Scrolling Text, and Timestamps
Learn FFmpeg’s drawtext filter to dynamically overlay text on video and display information such as timecode, frame resolution, watermarks, etc. […]
FFmpeg
How to Convert AVI to MP4 using FFmpeg? Lossy and Lossless Conversion
In this article, let’s learn how to use FFmpeg to convert videos from AVI to MP4 format – with and […]
