Growing demand for elevated viewing experiences at home Over the course of the past few years, consumers, video content providers, and electronic device producers alike have been pushing the boundaries of what each considers a higher quality of viewer experience; Ranging from the user-friendliness of an application to improved content recommendations to the highest resolution…
Launching a new or revamped OTT service requires a lot of complex back-end workflow builds, including, but not limited to moving to a new encoder. The process of implementing a new encoder can often add further complexity and consume time to configure the encoder to work for your specific use case. However, this doesn’t have…
For an APAC live event, our video coding engineer Christian Feldmann compared the HEVC (H.265) vs VP9. During the session, we discussed the fundamental differences between the two “modern codecs” and tied it off with an early analysis of each codec’s performance. These results were obtained using the open-source encoders libvpx-vp9, x264, and x265. This…
This article was co-authored by Dalet’s Solutions Architect, Brett Chambers, and Bitmovin’s Solution Director APAC, Adrian Britton Not all content is created equal, especially when you’re a publishing house and your content arrives from multiple sources. But that doesn’t mean that your viewer’s quality of experience (QoE) needs to suffer as a result. In this…
Multi-Codec World is here and now Two years ago we published the blog post “Get ready for a multi-codec world”. With the official launch of H.266 (VVC) and the progression of future codecs like AV1 and VP9, it’s a good time to revisit the state of the multi-codec world, and why it’s important to your…
Super-Resolution: Why is it good and how can you incorporate it? Introduction Welcome to Part 2 of Bitmovin’s Video Tech Deep Dive series: Super-Resolution with Machine learning. Before you get started, I highly recommend that you read Part 1. But if you would rather prefer to directly jump into it, here is a quick summary: …
In the previous series of posts, we set a baseline of compression knowledge by defining how lossy compression algorithms work for images and breaking down the JPEG image standard. Now that we’ve covered our image compression basics, it’s time to move up to the next level with video -as you might have guessed – a…
Everyone knows what a jpeg is! It’s an image of course. Yes and No – JPEG is the acronym that sits at the end of your picture file on your favorite device. You must be thinking, “Hold on one second, if it’s not the actual image, and it’s an acronym, what is it and what…
This scientific evaluation puts AV1 to the test against industry standard codecs and shows that AV1 is able to outperform VP9 and even HEVC by up to 40% Introduction For practical Over-the-top (OTT) streaming applications it is mostly necessary to supply streams using multiple different video codec standards in order to stream to a wide…
This is a comprehensive and detailed guide to Lossy Compression algorithms. Here you will find everything a developer needs to know about this cutting-edge topic, in a a guide created by some of the most advanced video technology experts and engineers. Take your time to read through the whole resource, or just skip to the…
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