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Bitmovin’s Smart Chunking – Interview with Markus Hafellner
In March 2023, Bitmovin announced the launch of their “Smart Chunking” feature, an improvement and an extension of their “Split & Stitch” transcoding logic. OTTVerse caught up with Markus Hafellner,…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…