Award winners of 2023 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice include Interra Systems, Harmonic, Telestream, Ateme, Vimeo, Amazon, Muvi, EZDRM, AMD, Red5, LiveU, and Haivision. Haivision’s Makito X4 won for streaming hardware, with Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Television Studio as the video mixer winner.
Read MoreDr. Erfanian researched methods to reduce end-to-end latency and enhance QoE in live ABR streaming. Dr. Çetinkaya developed ML approaches for HTTP adaptive streaming and two new techniques were proposed; FaME-ML and FaRes-ML. QLearning RDO and Esa-net also improved video segment quality by reducing artifacts up to 2.6dB PSNR gain. These methods could be used to optimize resource utilization and ensure high quality streams.
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Bitmovin has grown rapidly in the market this year, forecasted to reach ‘twenties million’ revenue in 2022. Over 200 new paying customers have been signed and $68 million has been raised so far. Their latest funding round was for $25 million, aiming to further drive growth.Bitmovin has grown rapidly in the market this year, forecasted to reach ‘twenties million’ revenue in 2022. Over 200 new paying customers have been signed and $68 million has been raised so far. Their latest funding round was for $25 million, aiming to further drive growth.
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Live streaming TV formats are growing in popularity; however, tech issues remain a concern. Americans are watching 4 hours of live streamed content weekly, and 49% prefer it for sports. Quality streams are essential to prevent viewers from becoming “enraged” and avoiding the format.Live streaming TV formats are growing in popularity; however, tech issues remain a concern. Americans are watching 4 hours of live streamed content weekly, and 49% prefer it for sports. Quality streams are essential to prevent viewers from becoming “enraged” and avoiding the format.
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> CMCD is an open-spec developed to bridge the gap between client and CDN for better QoE insight. It helps manage bandwidth, troubleshoot errors, reduce rebuffering, and improve streaming performance for viewers. Akamai and Bitmovin have adopted this approach.> CMCD is an open-spec developed to bridge the gap between client and CDN for better QoE insight. It helps manage bandwidth, troubleshoot errors, reduce rebuffering, and improve streaming performance for viewers. Akamai and Bitmovin have adopted this approach.
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Bitmovin and Dolby.io partnered to create an ultra-low latency video streaming player with full replay/review capabilities. It supports HLS and DASH formats and is ideal for gaming, sports, education and conferences. This powerful platform is built on WebRTC, offering end-to-end encryption, sub-second latency and no rewind or start-over options.Bitmovin and Dolby.io partnered to create an ultra-low latency video streaming player with full replay/review capabilities. It supports HLS and DASH formats and is ideal for gaming, sports, education and conferences. This powerful platform is built on WebRTC, offering end-to-end encryption, sub-second latency and no rewind or start-over options.
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Fraunhofer HHI, Spin Digital and Bitmovin present a new feature for VVC – Open-GOP resolution switching. It improves coding performance, enables seamless streaming and prediction from forward and backward frames. The closed-GOP configuration is widely used in streaming applications, while an open-GOP provides better coding performance, reduce bitrate and use CRA points to start decoding without resetting the decoder.Fraunhofer HHI, Spin Digital and Bitmovin present a new feature for VVC – Open-GOP resolution switching. It improves coding performance, enables seamless streaming and prediction from forward and backward frames. The closed-GOP configuration is widely used in streaming applications, while an open-GOP provides better coding performance, reduce bitrate and use CRA points to start decoding without resetting the decoder.
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MPEG has ratified 3rd editions of VVC and VSEI, 11th edition of AVC, HEVC CDAM amendments for neural network post-filtering. ISOBMFF extended to support uncompressed video/images. MPEG-DASH update adds dynamic multimedia delivery. Bitmovin claims new Player Web X with structured concurrency.
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React Native and Flutter are frameworks used for developing cross-platform video streaming applications. They enable native-like performance, custom UI features, quick feedback and updates, and access to open-source ecosystems. Bitmovin’s SDKs further enhance the development process by providing tailored components and solutions.
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Microsoft is shutting down Azure Media Services June 30 2024 and abandoning video workflow business. This was expected since their CTO was let go last year, and various media service pages had broken links and images not updated. They are recommending customers to switch to Harmonic, MediaKind, Bitmovin and Ravenur whilst Edgio is left as the only CDN partner. It is beneficial for them to cut products not related to their core strengths.
Read MoreSeveral other large producers stated that they would send HEVC to any platform that supported it (DRM permitting), and several service providers/encoding vendors like Harmonic and Bitmovin were recommending the same to their...
Read MoreEvery year around this time, like an early Christmas present, Bitmovin releases its Annual Video Developer’s Report, a must-read for all streaming media professionals. Now in its fifth year, the report contains valuable insights...
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