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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 Apple used for securely distributing…
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. This can get very confusing…
What is DRM? Digital Rights Management Simplified
DRM refers to a set of technologies and techniques to protect digital content from being copied or used without permission. It’s a way for content…
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 used to convert data in…
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. are performed. Though it is…
What’s a Video Codec? Comprehensive Guide with Examples
A video codec is a software or a hardware device that is used to compress and decompress digital video files. In today’s world, where the…
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. Also, let’s learn how to…
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 without re-encoding the AVI file.…
VMAF in FFmpeg – Installation and Usage Guide for Ubuntu
In this tutorial, we will see how to compile and install FFmpeg with VMAF support using libvmaf and then we shall see how to compute…
Convert to YUV using FFmpeg and Playback Using ffplay
Learn how to convert any video into YUV raw video using ffmpeg, play back a YUV file using ffplay, and to calculate the size of…
Comprehensive Guide to LCEVC (MPEG-5 Part 2) – Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding
The LCEVC Codec (MPEG-5 Part 2) or “Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding” is one of the three new codecs being introduced by MPEG (others being…
How to install FFmpeg on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu?
Let’s learn how to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu, MacOS, and Windows – the easy and painless way. Often times, people spend too much time installing…
VVC, EVC, LCEVC – MPEG’s New Video Codecs
MPEG is releasing three new video codecs in 2020-2021 called Versatile Video Coding (H.266), Essential Video Coding (EVC MPEG-5 Part 1), and Low Complexity Enhancement…
Netflix’s Top 10 List Should Be Taken With a Large Grain of Salt
As you might have already seen on the Twitter-verse and in Bloomberg, Netflix released its top 10 movies and Extraction topped that list. The numbers in…
Netflix’s Cool Automated Subtitling idea using AI and NLP
Subtitles can be really easy or really hard to get right and it depends on how you’re doing it. If you have someone transcribing the…
fuboTV Announces Strong Q1 2020 Earnings Despite COVID-19
Fubo, co-founded in 2015 by David Gandler (the current CEO) as a sports-centric, internet-delivered TV bundle has been seeing a lot of action lately. In…
Ever Heard of a Crowd-DJ? Well, DAZN Has One!
Would you watch a movie without audio (on mute)? Not unless you want to yell across your living room at/to someone. Right? That’s because the…
Why is Video Compression Critical?
Video compression is one of the most important aspects of video production. The need for high-quality visuals and sound in order to capture a viewer’s…
What’s ABR Streaming and How Does ABR Work?
ABR stands for Adaptive Bit-Rate streaming, and it broadly describes the process by which the quality and bitrate of video and audio are adaptively varied…
Free HLS m3u8 URLs for Testing HLS Players [Updated for 2023]
Here is a list of free HLS m3u8 test URLs for testing OTT HLS (m3u8) Video Players (including Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, Tears of Steel,…
What is OTT (Over-The-Top Video) Streaming?
OTT stands for Over-The-Top and refers to streaming media (audio and video) over the internet connection provided by cable providers – i.e., video over the…