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Andy Francis is an A/V nerd at heart who has spent the last 15+ years sending audio and video over the internet. He has extensive experience working with everything from video conferencing to live event streaming to large-scale OTT platforms and is passionate about spreading knowledge and access to streaming technologies.
The world of video technology is constantly evolving, and one of the more interesting developments in recent years is the story of MV-HEVC (Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding). Even though it was added to the HEVC specification in 2014, MV-HEVC didn’t see much commercial use for almost a decade. That changed when Apple launched the…
Introduction Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder is known for its quality, speed, and cloud-native ability to scale quickly and resiliently. Advanced features like split-and-stitch encoding with Smart Chunking, Per-Title and 3-Pass encoding set it apart from other encoders on the market, in terms of both visual quality and bitrate efficiency. For our customers, it means lower costs…
Since forming in October 2019, the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA at Universität Klagenfurt, run by Bitmovin co-founder Dr. Christian Timmerer, has been advancing research and innovation for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming technologies. Over the past five years, the lab has addressed critical challenges in video streaming from encoding and delivery to playback and end-to-end quality…
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is an annual event used to showcase new software and technologies in the Apple ecosystem. It was created with developers in mind, but sometimes new hardware and devices are announced and its keynote presentations have become must-see events for a much wider audience. There is also usually news about changes and…
This post was originally published in Sept 2023. It has been updated several time with the latest news and developments, most recently on June 13, 2024 with information about Apple’s AV1 Dolby Vision support. Apple made waves across the video encoding and streaming communities when they announced the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max…
This post covers some recent updates, focusing on the new Firefox AV1 support in Encrypted Media Extensions. Bitmovin has been supporting and advocating for use of the AV1 codec for several years, even though there have been gaps in playback support preventing adoption for some workflows. Slowly but surely, those gaps are being filled and the…
This post was originally published in October 2022. It has been updated with new developments, most recently on May 16, 2024 with news about Apple’s iPad AV1 decoder and Firefox encrypted media extensions support. In this post, I’ll be taking a look at the current state of AV1 playback support, covering which browsers, mobile devices,…
*This post was originally published in June 2023. It was updated in May 2024 with more recent research publications and updates.* This post will summarize the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for video in 2024, including recent progress and announcements. We’ll also take a closer look at AI video research and collaboration between…
For the past few years, AI has been one of the top buzzwords at the NAB Show. While other hot topics like “web3” seem to have peaked and faded, interest in video AI has continued to grow and this year there were more practical solutions being showcased than ever before. A personal highlight for Bitmovin…
AI has been the hot buzz word in tech the past couple of years and we’re starting to see more and more practical applications for video emerging from the hype, like automatic closed-captioning and language translation, automated descriptions and summaries, and AI video Super Resolution upscaling. Bitmovin has especially focused on how AI can provide…
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