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…
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…
Quality of experience for video viewing is critical for today’s brands trying to make the most of their content. That’s why, as the 4K TV market is expected to reach $380.9 billion by 2025, many broadcasters are looking to stream their video in 4K, HDR, and Dolby Vision. The problem is that many brands find…
Most media business professionals are naturally attracted to the idea of utilizing consumers’ ever-increasing data bandwidth, be it on home WiFi, cellular data, or other means of streaming video to the increasing array of consumer devices. Although that “last mile” part costs the content rights holder “nothing”, delivering a video streaming service worth paying for…
The Per-Title Ladder Bitrate Benchmark Tool is a great way to test the benefits of Per-Title encoding with your own video content. This post explains the test results. Since the launch of the Per-Title Bitrate Ladder Benchmark Tool in the Bitmovin dashboard, we have been pleased to see how many of you have tested Per-Title…
Bitmovin Encoding v2.0 is a major release which adds some powerful new features including: Per-Title, AV1 support, 3-Pass encoding and more – Test it today!
Per-Title Encoding offers greatly reduced bitrates without compromising (and even increasing) quality. Bitmovin has just released a Benchmark Tool which helps you to optimize your encoding workflow.
In a recent webinar, Bitmovin Product Manager Daniel Hölbling-Inzko spoke with our Developer Experience Manager Kieran Farr about using Per-Title Encoding optimization to achieve 200% better video quality while reducing delivery costs. Publishers and platforms with diverse content libraries have a big challenge – how to encode all this content to optimize for quality without…
As content providers face increasing viewer expectations, we explore how can publishers deliver premium quality video while still reducing bandwidth consumption? Anyone working in video knows that along with fast startup and avoiding stalls (buffering), video quality is a key factor in satisfying your audience. We at Bitmovin have recently introduced three new ways video…
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