MPEG-DASH Ecosystem Status

MPEG-DASH Ecosystem Status:
While most of IBC’s buzz was generated by the shiny HEVC + 4K couple, it was a good occasion to stand back from the hype and measure how one of the most important video standards (at least for the OTT world) had spread over the industry since last year. MPEG-DASH is not sexy (let’s remember that it’s basically a collection of XML schemes), it’s a bit boring (as it’s usually demonstrated with the Big Buck Bunny that you saw not less than 2.000 times) and it’s complex – but once you go past those defaults, you might find that its potential to simplify your workflows and boost the profitability of your video service is high…

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How the BBC Guaranteed Live Streaming Resilience for the Olympics

How the BBC Guaranteed Live Streaming Resilience for the Olympics - Streaming Media Magazine:
The Olympics have become a measuring stick for online broadcasters: How much more can they stream than two or four years ago? How much can they up the quality? For the BBC, the 2012 Olympics proved a special challenge since London was the host. It was a busy year for the BBC.

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IBC 2013: Beamr promises to shave 40% off OTT bit-rates

IBC 2013: Beamr promises to shave 40% off OTT bit-rates | Videonet:
Beamr’s CTO, Dror Gill, emphasised that Beamr Video is not a new type of video compression codec: instead it controls existing video compression systems like H.264 or HEVC, manipulating the encoding process in such a way that, in effect, it lowers the threshold at which bit-rate reductions cause artefacts visible to the naked eye.

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How to build a Netflix-like multiscreen OTT service

How to build a Netflix-like multiscreen OTT service:
With the fall of Megaupload, legal VOD sites are quickly gaining back popularity as consumers are eager to watch fresh video contents on all their connected devices. If you are a content owner, a TV channel or a telco, it may be the right time to (re)launch you Multiscreen OTT VOD offer. This post intends to start from the reference tech choices in this game – Netflix’s ones – explain the major challenges of such type of service and the associated DRM issues, and finally drive you throughout the different market options you have to setup your own service on a close basis (this part is covered in part 2 of the post). Everything would have been easier if Netflix did sell its solution as a white label platform, but it’s not (yet) the case, so this leaves fun territories to explore !

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[IBC 2013 Talk] The Future of OTT Platforms

[IBC 2013 Talk] The Future of OTT Platforms:
This year at IBC, I was invited by Vimond to take part into their Industry Visionaries talk series and discuss “The Future of OTT Platforms: Is it Diversification or Standardization ?” with Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Editor of Streaming Media Magazine. Although the 45 minutes talk was already quite consistent (and certainly took a share in my voice disappearing the day after) and shall be available online soon on Vimond’s website, I thought I could take the occasion to go over the topic here also, as a follow-up of some general guidelines I previously exposed in “How to build a Netflix-like multiscreen OTT service (part 1)“.

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Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service

Harmonic and Nagra Team to Power the World's First Commercial MPEG-DASH OTT Multiscreen Service:
Deployed Jointly by Abertis Telecom and Nagra, the Live and VOD Multiscreen Cloud Service Leverages Harmonic ProMedia(TM) Suite and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen.

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IPTV is dead; long live OTT-IPTV!

IPTV is dead; long live OTT-IPTV!: IPTV services are generally those delivered by Telco’s (e.g. Orange TV, ATT Uverse) over managed networks with guaranteed quality of service. OTT services on the other hand are usually offered by content owners (BBC, Hulu) or dedicated start-ups (Netflix, Roku) over networks not managed by the service provider. I gave my first IPTV presentation back

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Telestream Vantage Transcode HE Server Distributes Over-the-Top

Telestream Vantage Transcode HE Server Distributes Over-the-Top: Telestream’s new Vantage Transcode HE Server is specialized to accelerate transcoding and
packaging for multiscreen delivery, including OTT, Web, mobile and IPTV.

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Linear OTT: People will watch the first thing they see

Linear OTT: People will watch the first thing they see:
OTT viewers may not be quite as sophisticated and demanding as we have been led to believe, certainly not in the case of the Irish OTT service AerTV. Philippe Brodeur, Director of Aertv, which provides 11 linear channels including the main Irish broadcasters and its own niche content, declared today:

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