With the increase in demand for premium content, you’re being pushed to deliver content faster, with increasingly crisp picture quality. To keep up, video industry leaders have to explore ways to take advantage of the luminance, contrast, and color gamut that HDR offers. You’re probably familiar with HDR (high dynamic range) technology. Its brightness, color…
As of 2021, video technology has gained tremendous popularity, with no clear indication of slowing growth. With roughly 82% of consumers (in the US) owning at least one internet-connected device and 60% of adults watching a video on a connected device, it’s clear that a vast majority of individuals are seeking an engaging video experience. …
Implementing Cloud-Based Per-Title Encoding in the Real World Bitmovin’s gives developers access to industry-leading codecs and advanced encoding algorithms such as Per-Title. As you saw in the first part of this series, Per-Title Encoding allows you to save money on storage and streaming costs while giving viewers the best perceivable quality for their streaming session. In…
Part III – The Epic Battle of CPU Architectures: AMD vs ARM vs Intel Selecting, implementing, and running a CPU architecture is one of the most critical steps to running a successful Software or Product as a Service (SaaS or PaaS) organization as it’s the basis of how service will function. At the time of…
If you work with video on the internet, you know how resource-intensive encoding can be. While moving from in-house to cloud-hosted servers can save you a lot of money, that doesn’t change the fact that processing large videos with modern codecs takes significant computing power. “Video transcoding is one of the most computationally challenging things…
Part II – Applying Docker Tags to ARM The Journey from x86 to ARM continues As I covered in the first installment of our Journey from x86 to ARM series, the first major step for migrating a CPU Architecture is to update all relevant library dependencies that are compiled and optimized for one architecture to…
Part I – Updating Library Dependencies from x86 to ARM ARM CPU architectures have been in the news a lot recently: Apple announced that they are going to use ARM processors and ditch Intel. Cloud computing platforms such as AWS are offering instances with ARM. It seems like there is a significant shift in the…
VVC – the latest evolution for modern codecs Versatile Video Coding (h.266/VVC) is the newest block-based hybrid codec from the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET), a group comprised of MPEG and ISO/ITU members such as Bitmovin and Fraunhofer HHI, and promises to vastly improve the compression capabilities of workflows for any organization within the streaming…
As demand for streaming video grows worldwide, many ISPs and hosting providers have struggled to keep up. In 2020, Bitmovin has seen a 118% increase in videos played, but a 15% lower download speed on average. As a video provider, you can’t fix connection speeds due to overwhelmed internet service providers, but using the latest…
What is per-title encoding? By encoding video at bitrates appropriate to the content of the video file, content providers can make significant bandwidth savings as well as quality improvements. Introduction Per-Title Encoding is not a new concept. In fact, you can find research online that dates back several years, including this 2012 presentation: Choosing the…
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