In November 2015 Microsoft open sourced the .NET framework to make it cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, perhaps making it a very interesting API Client for your next project. We already offer a great range of API clients for our encoding service for adaptive streaming video, including node.js, ruby, javascript, php, python, java, and we are constantly…
Bitmovin was built from the ground up with Multi-Cloud in mind. It can run on virtually any cloud! From the first line of code, the Bitmovin Cloud Encoding Service was designed to be a true Multi-Cloud service, which means it can easily move from one cloud to another providing you with a very high level…
In combination with Fastly and Google Cloud Storage we are now able to deliver an end to end experience, from encoding to streaming to playback, that can easily compete with YouTube and Netflix Bitmovin enables high quality video streaming on the web with the smartest video encoding service and HTML5 adaptive player on the market. We utilize…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is a compression standard that doubles the compression efficiency while maintaining similar or same video quality compared to its predecessor H.264/AVC High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is a compression standard that was jointly developed by ISO/IEC MPEG SC29/WG11 and the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG)….
PULS 4 Success Story PULS 4 is the leading private TV broadcaster in Austria. They offer linear TV as well as live streams at www.puls4.com. PULS 4 is part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group. Bitmovin provides cloud-based encoding services as well as the HTML5 and Flash video player ensuring a reliable webcast of the PULS…
Having advanced features such as cropping (changing the size of the video) available with MPEG-DASH and HLS, through a unified API with API clients for different languages can be very handy Streaming has become more complex in the last few years, with modern technologies such as MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) and Apple HTTP…
Recently we added several features to the Bitmovin encoding service, including the ability to watermark your video streams. This enables our users to brand their streams in several ways using PNGs, JPGs or even GIFs. You can also set the exact position of your image in the video stream. The watermarking is part of our…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or simply H.265 is the successor to Advanced Video Coding (AVC) also known as H.264, which is today one of the most used compression schemes on the Web – also adaptive streaming technologies, such as MPEG-DASH. HEVC also promises the same level of picture quality as its predecessor, but with better compression…
Closed Captioning Closed captioning is the process of adding text to to video files allowing the user to read along with the audio. This is usually employed to assist hearing impaired viewers, but also has other applications. Closed captioning is an important part of delivering online video and Bitmovin’s API is fully capable of managing your CC needs. Contact us for…
Kronehit Livestream Following a successful live-streaming deployment around its 2-day continuous fundraising event, KRONEHIT, Austria’s only nationwide private radio broadcaster, uses the Bitmovin’s cloud-based encoding platform in combination with Bitmovin’s HTML5 Player to realize 24x7x365 live streaming in highest quality with MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) & Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). What are the…
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