Commentary: DASH Is Overrated—Enough Already!
The problem MPEG-DASH solves isn’t that big a deal, and it’s not going to make anyone’s life simpler in the short term.
DetailsHow I spent the First Half of 2013
Streaming Learning Center has been quiet for the last few months. Primarily, that relates to getting two large projects done, and making two presentations. The two projects were two books, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery, and an upcoming Visual QuickStart Guide on Premiere Pro for the Creative Suite 7 version of that Adobe…
DetailsAdobe to add HLS and DASH to Primetime
Adobe’s plans for Primetime highlight both the strengths and limitations of HLS and DASH, as well as the fact that Flash isn’t going away anytime soon
DetailsJan Ozer: Opening Act, NAB 2013
I was the opening act for NAB 2013, speaking at at 8:00 AM on Saturday morning for the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The talk was on Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery and a surprisingly enthusiastic group of around 300+ broadcast engineers showed up despite the hour (you can download the handout below). Not to…
DetailsOzer releases book: Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery
New book helps streaming producers navigate the confusing waters of live and on-demand delivery to multiple platforms, covering both adaptive and single file delivery. Galax, VA – April 2, 2013 – The Streaming Learning Center announced the immediate availability of Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery. Written by streaming producer and compression expert Jan…
DetailsOzer releases new book, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery
Note to reader: Much, but not all of this book has been superceded by Jan Ozer’s new book, Video Encoding by the Numbers:Eliminate the Guesswork from Your Streaming Video (2017). Specifically, the new book deeply examines encoding parameters for H.264, VP9, and HEVC, as well as ABR streaming in HLS and DASH formats. However, the…
DetailsReview: Teradek VidiU, a First Look at the Compact H.264 Encoder
Small and affordable, the VidiU lets broadcasters stream HD from anywhere. But, one flaw keeps us from calling it a must-buy
DetailsFrom Russia With Love
In March, I visited Moscow to speak at the Connected TV Forum. The trip was sponsored by NGENIX, the leading regional CDN in Russia and CIS, and their CEO, Konstantin Chumachenko, was the first to reach out. My talk, Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery (and you can download the handouts here), was formulated with the…
DetailsWhat Is HEVC (H.265)?
H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the successor codec to H.264, which, like H.264, is jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is 50 percen
DetailsPortland Community College’s Multimedia Program Switches to Adobe Creative Suite
There’s been a lot of back and forth about how Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) has been accepted in the marketplace. Before its introduction, though Adobe had been making headway against Final Cut Pro 7 (FCP7), it’s fair to say that FCP7 had greater mindshare in the educational and professional educational community. My own informal…
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