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AVOD or Advertising-based Video On Demand is a VOD business model that generates revenue by inserting advertisements into the video streaming, either via Client-Side Ad Insertion or Server-Side Ad Insertion.…

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MulticoreWare Inc., joins CEVA, the leading licensor of sensor-hub Digital Signal Processors, AI engines, and complementary framework & various software SDK’s, as their trusted partner to enable…

VOD stands for Video On Demand and is a video streaming and delivery technology that enables people to watch videos instantly – anytime, anywhere, and on any device. There are…

PARIS, DENVER, SINGAPORE, SYDNEY, 25 February, 2021 – ATEME, the leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced its TITAN Live platform was implemented in…

If you search for the following phrase on Google, ‘what is video encoding’, the top result is from Mux, which explains it as “Video encoding is a process for making…

LG announced today that it will expand and provide access to its webOS SmartTV Platform to more than 20 TV manufacturers, including RCA, Ayonz and Konka with more partners expected…

Editor’s note: OTTVerse is pleased to present this free-flowing interview with Benjamin Bross and Adam Wieckowski from Fraunhofer HHI. Do not miss this interview as they talk about the Heinrich…

OyaWatch TV is a new Nigerian subscription based streaming service, aiming to become the number one provider of media and entertainment experiences in the country. The service was launched on February…

Dolby and DTS – two iconic names in the entertainment industry – and “surround sound” are the subjects of this article. Sounds attractive? What exactly is surround sound? Are Dolby…

In my video processing toolkit, ffprobe has a very prominent place! The FFmpeg library, ffprobe, can rightly be called the Swiss Army Knife of video information extraction or video inspection.…

A crucial step in delivering media using the HTTP Live Streaming or HLS protocol is to test your m3u8 streams and playlists using an m3u8 player (also referred to as…

Editor’s note: In this article, Cameron Church from Watching That talks about Fill Rate Calculations in Advertising (their importance and the correct way to calculate them), followed by an interview…

As most of you are probably aware, MPEG announced three new video codecs – Versatile Video Coding (VVC), Essential Video Coding (EVC), and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC). OTTVerse…

Introduction In this article, I will discuss and compare the key features of some popular audio codecs. In particular, I will focus on the aspects that are most relevant from…

One of the biggest problems that video streaming companies face is taking disjoint sets of information from different points in the video delivery pipeline and making sense of it. If…

Innovative Developer of Cloud-Media Processing Platform Acknowledged for its Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies SAN FRANCISCO, CA — January 26, 2021, Encoding.com, the world’s most trusted cloud media…

Request Collapsing or Collapse Forwarding is a very important feature in CDNs that protect CDNs and Origin Servers from being overwhelmed by a large number of redundant requests. In this…

Here is a list of free MPEG-DASH mpd (Manifest) test URLs for testing OTT DASH Video Players (including Big Buck Bunny, Tears of Steel, and mpd URLs from BBC, Dolby,…

In this article, we will learn how to use FFmpeg to convert videos to Apple ProRes 422 and 444 formats. To try this tutorial on a Windows machine, you can…

Introduction In this article, I will introduce you to the basic concepts and commonly used terms related to digital audio.  Are you curious about  How are sounds stored and transmitted…

It is critical to have the right tools to build and debug media players, and today, we shall talk about the Media Panel in Google Chrome’s Developer Tools. There is…

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a video from images using FFmpeg. FFmpeg can do this easily if the input is fed as a sequence of images…

This short tutorial will demonstrate how to extract the last N seconds from a video (like removing the last 10 seconds of a video using FFmpeg). To do this we…

In this tutorial, we shall learn about HLS packaging using FFmeg. The great part about using FFmpeg is that you can ingest a video, resize it, transcode, package, and stream…

OBS Studio vs. Streamlabs OBS – why do I even care? Well, before you start streaming and recording your videos, it’s important to choose the right software. Today, we are…

Blurring is an important operation in video post-production. Instead of using costly software, you can use FFmpeg’s boxblur to blur your videos and even choose which area of the frames…

In this article (part of our video compression series), we take a look at the concepts of Closed GOPs and Open GOPs. Both of these GOP types are very common…

Zoom is one of the most popular video conferencing apps. The best part is that you can live stream on Zoom using OBS Studio and even record your Zoom meetings…

The concept of I-frames, P-frames, and B-frames is fundamental to the field of video compression. These three frame types are used in specific situations to improve the stream’s compression efficiency,…

When you join two videos or images, it is pleasing to the eye to use a crossfade, or dissolve, or a wipe-effect at the point of transition. You don’t need…