CDNs, or Content Delivery Networks, are the backbones of modern-day video streaming. Most streaming services depend on CDNs for their day-to-day operations and to ensure high QoS/QoE, and efficient global streaming while ensuring that their streaming costs are under control. Before we dive into the rest of this article, if you are new to Content […]
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Video transcoding is a critical part of every video delivery and streaming service and has a huge impact on the quality of service, quality of experience, and the cost of video streaming. With an industry that is on the decades-old H.264/AVC in most parts of the world, with contenders such as H.265/HEVC, AV1, VP9, and
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This article will show how Content Adaptive Encoding (CAE) ensures excellent video quality while reducing the bitrate for H.264/AVC transcoding. We demonstrate this with bitrate and VMAF results for videos of varying complexities.
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BCCI has announced today that Viacom18 Media Private Limited will acquire the Media Rights from WIPL Season 2023 to WIPL Season 2027 for a cumulative figure of INR 951 crores (i.e., INR 7.09 crores per match). As ardent followers of cricket probably know, the inaugural season of the Women’s Indian Premiere League is all set to start in March 2023.
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A device detection solution capable of providing rich, detailed information about video OTT subscribers devices is a critical first step in new codec adoption.
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The player is the most important contact point for viewing experience, and is also integral to effective monetization and other commercial factors. – Dr. Yang Cai, CEO VisualOn Discussions around content production and consumption dominate the rapid development of streaming services worldwide. But in the excitement around these new platforms and services, it’s clear that
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In this article, let us look at various options available for live streaming, their latencies, and review some of the open source projects and AWS-managed services for live streaming.
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With the increasing demand for quality of experience (QoE) by the viewers, broadcasters are rapidly improving video streaming technologies to compete in the online content creation space. While applying technical improvements in video streaming, companies need to make a risky trade-off between video quality and streaming performance, which makes bit rate the deciding factor in
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Almost 80 percent of the US watches TV on a given day, which makes up a large part of most people’s leisure time. It is safe to say that the majority of people are addicted to screen time. A large portion of today’s audience has also shifted from broadcast TV to watching internet-based programming delivered
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When looking at the innovation taking place over the last three years, commenting that the media industry is fast-evolving is an understatement. Cloud and IP workflows have been bringing solutions to broadcasting challenges, enabling media organizations to continue to deliver high-quality live content in the face of adversity. Per Lindgren is CTO of Net Insight
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