In the bustling world of streaming services, making sure viewers can enjoy their favorite shows and movies without any hiccups is key. Imagine watching your favorite series, only to have it constantly buffer or look blurry. Frustrating, right? That’s where effective video encoding comes in. It’s the secret sauce behind smooth playback, reducing those buffer…
Have you spent months planning to move your traditional TV channel to the cloud or trying to set up an online TV channel? In addition to carefully planning your content and infrastructure, it’s essential to use the right tools and resources to start an online TV channel. It can be challenging to manage and deliver…
Remember the days when you will have to check the newspaper or other printed medium to check what was on air for the day. Today, the program guide has evolved from a printed document to an interactive feature, which keeps users glued to their devices to find out more about what’s available to watch. And…
Video content is winning the game across platforms. Be it 15-30 second reels on Instagram, YouTube shorts or long-form content on OTT platforms, video content consumption on the internet has grown massively over the years. But there is a newly emerging problem appearing with too much video content being created, especially on OTT platforms and…
If it’s your first time publishing OTT content online, launching your Apple TV app could prove to be a really smart choice. With over With over 14% of CTV OS share in US, Apple TVOS is the second most popular CTV OS in the US. So building an Apple TV app can give you the…
Do you remember the time when online video was limited to 480p on computers and the content centered primarily around short clips of funny children, skateboarding action, or dancing dogs? Successful videos, at the time, garnered thousands of views, had a shelf life measured in weeks, and were monetized only with ads. Today, streaming premium…
Video resolution is a commonly used term online. Most people understand it as the quality of the visual display that they see on the screen. However, from a video creator’s perspective, what is a more technical definition of video resolution? “Video resolution represents the total number of pixels displayed on the screen in each frame.”…
Video is everywhere around us: commercials, tutorials, demo videos, how-to, explainer videos, etc. It is becoming an inevitable component of the business. There are so many scenarios where you might want to add videos to your solution. You might be launching a competitor app for Facebook/ Instagram, you might have a hiring solution where applicants…
If you are watching a live YouTube video on your mobile device or viewing on-demand content on your desktop (e.g. Disney+), you can do so because of an adaptive streaming communication protocol called HLS. Also known as HTTP Live Streaming, it was developed by Apple Inc in 2009 to be only used on Apple devices….
In this article, we explain the various aspects of live streaming and the technology behind it. Table of contents : 1. What is live streaming and how it works 2. Recording the event 3. Encoder 4. Protocols – RTMP, RTSP, SDP and HLS 5. Ingesting to the media server 6. Adaptive bitrate streaming 7. Delivering…
The popularity of streaming media is rising with new OTT services getting launched every day. From a consumer perspective, the use of OTT services increased by 5.2 million homes from April 2019 to April 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown. For broadcasters, the user experience they offer plays a significant role in setting them apart from the…
Looking to make your online video content more secure? We know how difficult that can be. There are so many video piracy websites that are looking to steal your content and data. In 2019, Disney+ had launched its own streaming platform. Within just a few hours of the launch, most IDs and passwords were hacked…