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Top Video Quality Metric-Related Articles on the Streaming Learning Center
Top FFmpeg Articles on the Streaming Learning Center
These are the most popular FFmpeg-related articles on the Streaming Learning Center over 2019-2020. I hope you find this list of FFmpeg resources useful. Discover Six FFmpeg Commands You Can’t Live Without – FFmpeg is a free command-line utility that serves as the engine for most of the largest cloud encoding farms in the world, public and private. But it …
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Beginner’s Guide to Live Streaming
Welcome to this introduction to live streaming, which details what live streaming is, how it works, and technology alternatives to implement live streaming, from third-party service providers to DIY (do it yourself). What is Live Streaming? Live streaming is a one-to-many technology that: Inputs a single video stream from a camera or video mixer Transcodes that stream into multiple streams …
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Analyzing Video Quality
Live and VOD Bootcamps at Streaming Media Connect
I’m teaching two boot camps (virtually) at an upcoming Streaming Media Connect event, one for VOD and the other for live streaming; each costs $199. The courses are designed for newbies who need to get up to speed quickly on these topics. If the courses sound familiar, I taught both courses at Streaming Media West in October, though I’ve updated …
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Webinar: Deploying DRM with the Wowza Streaming Engine and BuyDRM’s KeyOS Platform
This webinar is designed for Wowza Streaming Engine (WSE) users who are adding digital rights management (DRM) to their live or VOD streams, particularly using BuyDRM KeyOS. It’s now available for on-demand viewing immediately below: 00:00 – Introduction 01:15 – About BuyDRM (https://buydrm.com/) 02:20 – About Derrick Freeman 03:14 – DRM Overview 03:39 – What is DRM 04:37 – How …
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Dolby Finds That Streaming 101 Course “Enhanced Overall Productivity”
When I launched my online course, Streaming Media 101: Technical Onboarding for Streaming Media Professionals, one of the first companies that signed on for multiple students was Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Several students came from the Enterprise Encoding division, which is headed by Senior Director David Trescot. This is the group that created the Hybrik encoding platform acquired by Dolby in …
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Lesson of the Week: The New Rules of Codec Deployments
Adoption of MPEG-2, H.264, and HEVC was almost automatic in some markets because implementors assumed that royalties would be reasonable and that the codecs would succeed. Two factors have changed those assumptions; the HEVC royalty mess and the formation of the Alliance for Open Media. This short video details how these two factors have changed how codecs are deployed. If …
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Train Your Streaming Media Professionals: Your Place or Mine?
COVID-related travel and meeting restrictions don’t obviate the need for employee training. This article documents the four training options available for streaming media professionals from the Streaming Learning Center. I created the Streaming Learning Center to help train streaming media professionals, particularly those involved in encoding, packaging, and delivering streaming video. Initially, we offered books and live training, and then …
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Google Adding HEVC Playback to Chrome? Seems like a Longshot
I recently received the following message from a colleague, a respected IP attorney, on LinkedIn. Hi Jan, hope all’s well. What do you make of Google joining HEVC Advance’s pool (now Access Advance)? Talking to some relevant players, I think it’s a prelude to Chrome supporting HEVC. Do you think it has any implications for AV2 or VVC? Thanks, and …
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