Here’s the class description; download link below. With the speed of technology today, one of the most important parts of software is adaptability. By taking control of your own encoding and packaging, you can greatly reduce cost and maintain high adaptability and agility to meet your needs now and in the future. When working with…
DetailsWe’ve added several new lessons to our E-learning course, Getting Up and Running with Wowza Streaming Engine. The advanced new modules include Deploying DRM with the Wowza and BuyDRM’s KeyOS Platform and Configuring a Wowza Origin with Amazon CloudFront Edge Servers. New lessons include: • KeyOS MultiPack Wowza Module Set-up and Configuration • Testing Encryption…
DetailsWe are pleased to share this wonderful testimonial from a Streaming Media 101 student who published a review on LinkedIn. Srinivasa points out that if your goal is to optimize viewer QoE, your technical staff needs to be aware of all the factors that impact QoE, from your encoding ladder configuration, to encoding quality, efficient…
DetailsThis article documents two sets of tests with 8K footage; the first with two scenes from the movie Ripartenza, the second with footage from a River Plate soccer match presented as an addendum to the original article. I met my dear friend Loren perhaps 20 years ago. When she learned I had two little girls…
DetailsOn-the-job training has a significant cost in learning materials and employee time. When ROI is king, is training worth it? That’s the issue explored by this white paper from the Streaming Learning Center. Key findings include: That training can accelerate time to proficiency by 30 – 50%. With technical employees paid from US $35,000 –…
DetailsTue, Jun 15, 2021 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Description: The VP9 codec is at an interesting inflection point. On one hand, VP9 provides better quality than H.264, and similar quality but much better browser support than HEVC. On the other, AV1 plays in most of the same browsers as VP9, though AV1’s encoding…
DetailsIf you’re building a large-scale in-house VOD encoder, your job just got easier as SVT open-sources Encore, their VOD encoder. One of the most fundamental decisions all streaming publishers must make is whether to purchase a commercial encoder, use a commercial cloud encoder, or build their own, the classic make vs. buy. One of the…
DetailsThis document describes what adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming is and its components and operation. It’s intended for newbies and provides a high-level overview, not a detailed how-to for implementing ABR. These materials were adopted from lessons in the online course Streaming Media 101: Technical Onboarding for Streaming Media Professionals. Overview ABR technologies encode live and…
DetailsWhen you upload a file to an online video platform (OVP) or user-generated content (UGC) site, the mezzanine file you create will be transcoded into multiple ABR rungs. Given that video is a garbage-in/worse-garbage-out medium, the inclination is to encode at as high a data rate as possible. However, higher data rates increase upload time…
DetailsMy review of the Epiphan Pearl Nano is now available on Streaming Media. The video I produced for the review is below. Note that I really liked the feature set and usability but found that video quality suffered from a slight cast as you can in Figure 8 of the article and below. The cast…
DetailsEvery year, the Streaming Media Sourcebook features tutorials to help streaming media professionals perform their daily tasks faster and better and buyer’s guides to help them purchase the right gear and software. This year I focused my articles on video production topics. Here are the tutorials with a brief description: Connecting a DSLR or Camcorder…
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