In this conversation, Jan Ozer from the Streaming Learning Center interviews Gabe Thomas, VP of Strategy and Business Development at A Parent Media Company (APMC). They discuss AdCurate, a powerful tool that helps streaming publishers improve ad quality and brand safety. Below is a detailed breakdown of their conversation, with each question and answer presented for clarity. You can watch …
Read More »Bitmovin Video Developer Report Reveals Streaming in 2025: Incremental Growth Over Innovation
The Bitmovin Video Developer Report is an essential resource for anyone involved in video streaming technology. Conducted between September and December 2024, this 8th annual edition gathered insights from 167 video developers and industry experts across 34 countries. The majority of respondents were from EMEA (48%) and North America (36%), reflecting the primary markets driving streaming technology. Participants ranged from …
Read More »Call for Contributions| ACM Mile-High Video 2025
The Mile-High Video Conference recently published a call for contributions (https://lnkd.in/eCFyUD2i). This event is an excellent opportunity to share your ideas and research with a diverse group of technologists and technology decision-makers from industry and academia. The conference invites contributions across a wide range of topics, including content production, encoding, codecs, cloud-based workflows, streaming technologies, and content delivery. Industry trends …
Read More »Meet Open Source Video Downloader YT-DLP
I’m updating my book, Video Encoding by the Numbers, which means lots of research into what other encoding professionals are doing. One source of knowledge I appreciate is downloading files from different websites to analyze these files. I used to use YouTube-dl, but it is not as reliable as before, and most GUI-based tools don’t work particularly well. I’m also leery about malware from some of these tools. I learned about yt-dlp this weekend and gave it a …
Read More »Protected: LinkedIn Live: How to Nail for Your First Event
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Read More »New Lesson: AI in Video Encoding, Production, and Customer Experiences
I just posted a new lesson to the Streaming Media 101 course on AI in encoding, production, and customer experiences. The lesson is free to all current students; here’s the description. Lesson Description In this lesson, you will learn about the dynamic role of artificial intelligence in transforming media encoding, production processes, and customer experiences. The lesson offers an overview …
Read More »Free “Must-Have” Applications for Video Engineers
Here are the free “must-have” apps I install on every Windows computer (and three for-fee tools for deeper analysis). I just received a new Dell Precision 7820 server and had to prepare it for video transcoding and analysis. Here are the tools I installed to get up and running. I present the list and links first and then a list …
Read More »Streaming Media 101: “I was Amazed at How Much I Learned”
A recent review from The Ohio State University’s Derrick Freeman highlighted what he learned from Streaming Media 101. Below is his review, which I’ve chopped up into bullet points. “I just recently earned my certificate from Jan Ozer’s “Streaming Media 101: Technical Onboarding for Streaming Media Professionals” e-learning course at Streaming Learning Center. I was amazed at how much I …
Read More »Build Your Own Live Streaming Cloud
I’m proud to speak at NETINT’s Build Your Own Live Streaming Cloud Symposium. We’ve assembled an all-star cast of experts to educate streaming engineers on how to build their own encoding and packaging infrastructure and save a bundle over cloud services. Speakers include representatives from Wowza, GPAC, id3as (Norsk), Edgio, Greening of Streaming, two of us from NETINT, and two …
Read More »Streaming Learning Center Goes Mobile
Just a quick announcement to let you know that if you’re taking a course on the Streaming Learning Center, you can now access lessons via a mobile app. By way of background, we use a learning management system called Thinkific to host all Streaming Learning Center courses. Thinkific recently launched its new mobile app for iOS and Android that we …
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