What is Transcoding? In the context of video – Transcoding refers to the process of compressing video files as much as possible at minimal quality loss to represent (and transfer) information by using less data. Essentially, video transcoding online is the conversion of a video file from one format to a better-compressed version to ensure…
What is VVC? Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the most recent international video coding standard which was finalized in July of 2020. It is the successor to High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) as it was also developed jointly by the ITU-T and ISO/IEC. So what is really new in VVC? Is this a real revolution when…
Encoder Integration made for your success We want to enable you to build out the best possible video stacks by using custom media supply chains. Consequently, we want to provide you with the best services in the market. Our latest integration is a collaboration of Vidispine’s API 5.0 and our very own video encoder. In…
In our content-driven world – it’s of utmost importance to deliver consistent and high-quality content within reasonable budget limitations. A factor that most content creators and distributors may not consider is the high price potential of encoding. When uploading a video, it’s encoded into a collection of renditions, each suitable for a typical range of…
At Bitmovin’s Southeast Asia Internet Video Debate 2019, video executives shared hot OTT topics ranging from AI to multi-codec and low-latency As the orange sun set over the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, senior executives and video engineers from India’s leading Internet video streaming companies gathered together at our first APAC Internet Video Tech Social…
Welcome back! In our first instalment of the Memory Series – pt. 1, we reviewed the basics of Java’s Internals, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the memory regions found within, garbage collection, and how memory leaks might happen in cloud instances. In this second post we cover more in-depth facets of cloud storage as it pertains…
Where Has My Memory Gone? Finding Memory Leaks in Java Microservices Welcome to this two-part series about troubleshooting memory-related issues in a containerized cloud environment. These posts will discuss the basics of how memory is managed for Java applications and how to develop a procedure which can be used to identify memory problems. So let’s…
Azure customers given complete access to rich set of cloud encoding and playback features from Bitmovin at IBC 2019 Bitmovin is excited to announce the integration of our world-class innovative cloud-based video streaming solutions, the Encoder and Player, with Microsoft’s Azure. Azure customers can now use encoding and player solutions from Bitmovin to create highly…
In today’s new era of cloud computing many companies are leveraging the cloud by uploading simple tasks into on-demand and serverless cloud services. AWS Lambda abstracts the servers layer and offers pay-per-compute-time pricing. This makes it an ideal tool to run code for virtually any type of application without any cloud servers administration hassle, which…
Bitmovin is the future of video cloud transcoding, providing a high performance cloud-service to transcode multimedia content at speed in excess of 100x real-time, even for highest 4k and 8k qualities. Cloud transcoding Bitmovin is a high-performance adaptive bitrate transcoding and streaming platform for cutting edge media formats such as MPEG-DASH and HLS, (including HLS 4k), which are…
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