Tag Archives: Streaming quality control tools

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Meet Charles Web Debugging Proxy-My New Favorite Tool

According to the Charles Proxy website, “Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).” From my perspective, Charles is an affordable …

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Using Objective and Subjective Quality Tests

Here's a column that talks about the requirement to perform both objective and subjective testing when evaluating different encoding techniques or comparing codecs. Here's the first paragraph. I spend a lot of time assessing video quality, sometimes

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Ozer Releases Multiple Screen Delivery Course on Udemy

Just a quick note that I released a new course on encoding for Multiple Screen Delivery on Udemy for $29. For a limited time, you can buy the course for $24.99 by entering the coupon code MSD_book when you purchase, or by clicking here to buy the course.   The course includes about 3 hours of lectures, starting with H.264 …

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Pixel Aspect Ratio – When 720×480 = 853×480

I recently taught a couple of seminars in Los Angeles at StreamingMedia West. You can find links to the presentations at the link in the previous sentance. I just got an email from a student asking: At Streaming Media West you introduced the session to MediaInfo, a very handy tool, thank you. Quick question, on one video I notice that …

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File Analysis Tools for Streaming Video

Introduction to streaming file analysis tools and how we tested

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