On 28 March 2018, after several years of development, the AV1 video codec standard was released by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), a consortium…

Per-title encoding is the science of tuning of the ABR bitrate ladder for each movie based on its unique spatial & temporal nature and complexity…

Everytime you encode a video file with a distribution oriented codec like H.264, HEVC, VP9, or AV1, you choose a bitrate control mechanism that controls…

This article will take a closer look at the Affine Motion Compensated Prediction in the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) codec and demonstrate how it works. …

As the demand for content grows exponentially, there is much discussion about the method of delivery for video on demand (VOD) and which monetisation strategy…

To a great degree, video codec adoption is driven by the simple break even formula presented above. You put your costs on top, your savings…

Siddhant heads VdoCipher.com, a video technology startup that provides secure video hosting solutions to prevent video piracy for ed-tech and media platforms. Video DRM protection…

It is important to use a CDN for Live Streaming because CDN (Content Delivery Network) consists of servers strategically located worldwide that store copies of…

Low latency video streaming has become a mandatory requirement in any tenders and competitions for the building of head-end stations and CDNs. Previously, such criteria…

Live streaming is the live transmission of audio and video content live over the Internet. As live video becomes more popular, live streaming has become…

I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the outstanding content on the OTTVerse website. In my first article, I wanted to introduce those new to…

In the evolving world of video compression, several new codecs were announced by the MPEG in 2020, such as VVC (Versatile Video Coding), EVC (Essential…

Ahead of the World OTT Show Asia 2021, Trescon Global presents an interview with Namita Dhallan, the Chief Product Officer at Brightcove to get her…

How do I convert MKV files to MP4 for free? A problem people often face is converting videos from mkv to mp4 container/file formats for…

As most of you know, several video codecs from the MPEG are under active research and development, such as VVC, EVC, and LCEVC. We compared…

In a multi-CDN architecture, you can cache your video segments across multiple CDN providers with overlapping geographic coverage. Using a Multi-CDN architecture for Live streaming…

With video streaming taking over the world of communication, content creators and streaming service providers need to ensure a very high user experience for their…

Live streaming quality is a major concern for any business looking to grow its online presence and create more awareness. As the world of technology…

Streaming protocols such as HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) are two of the most popular video streaming protocols for transferring…

In this quick tutorial, we’ll teach you how to extract the number of frames (of frame count) in a video using ffprobe, an utility written…

MPEG-DASH is one of the most popular streaming protocols and is hugely configurable for different streaming and infrastructure requirements. One of its most interesting features…

Recommendation Engines are systems that typically use Machine Learning to predict which movie or video a particular user (or cohort) is likely to enjoy watching,…

A CDN or Content Delivery Network is critical to video, image, and website content delivery and performance across the globe. Most streaming services like Netflix,…

BD-Rate and BD-PSNR are objective measures used in video compression to compare the rate-distortion performance or compression efficiency of two different video codecs or different…

A NAT allows many internet-enabled devices to connect to the Internet via a single public IP address. When a device wants to access the internet,…

You can’t get very far into video streaming without running into packages and packagers. Streaming media requires two different types of packages, adding to the…

In this edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to MPEG-DASH, we dig into the Shaka MPEG DASH tools. Shaka is a versatile toolkit that can package…

GPAC is a versatile toolkit that can package and encrypt videos for transmission using the MPEG-DASH protocol. In this edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to…

In this deep dive on adtech, let’s take a look at ad pods or podding, and learn how they work, how to measure the performance…

In this article from the MPEG-DASH series, we take a look at how to create MPEG-DASH compliant streams (package) using the popular Bento4 (mp4dash) tool.…

One of the biggest issues with YouTube Live Streaming is that you cannot stream from your mobile phone until your channel has one thousand subscribers.…

MPEG-DASH is one of the most popular video-streaming protocols and is widely used to deliver media either via Video on Demand (VOD) or Live Streaming…

In this article, we look at the structure of an MPEG-DASH MPD (Media Presentation Description) file that is required for ABR streaming using MPEG-DASH. Learn…

YouTube has released a tool called “Checks” to help and warn creators about copyright violations and ad suitability issues during the upload and processing step…

Ads inserted into videos are classified into Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll, Post-Roll ads based on their position or placement in the video i.e., before, in the middle,…

A crucial step in delivering media using the MPEG-DASH streaming protocol is to test your MPD streams and playlists using a MPEG-DASH player (also referred…

Video Encoding is the science of reducing a video’s size or bitrate without adversely impacting its quality, as perceived by a human. It is both…

MVPD stands for Multichannel Video Programming Distributor, and vMVPD stands for Virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor. This article explains the concepts of MVPD and vMVPD,…

How to connect and live stream to Twitch using OBS studio in 4 simple steps! You can be up and running in under 10 –…

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to connect and live stream from OBS Studio to Facebook Live in 5 simple steps! You can be…

FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling and manipulating multimedia data. FFmpeg can handle the entire process of transcoding,…

What is RTMP or the Real-Time Messaging Protocol? RTMP or Real-Time Messaging Protocol is a proprietary, two-way communication protocol for low-latency, real-time audio, video, and…

Live Streaming on YouTube on OBS Studio isn’t as difficult as people think it is! If you are a YouTuber hoping to live stream on…

Bitrate vs. Resolution – Which is more important for video streaming? This is a question that most streaming services need to think about while designing…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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