We spoke with 15 publishers including PBS, The YES Network, and TechCrunch to find out exactly how they’re broadcasting to Facebook Live, and the technology they’re using to do it. For our article “Facebook Live: A Progress Report After One Year of Growth,” we interviewed 15 video publishers to get a sense of the strategic reasons why they’re webcasting on …

N2224 has long been considered the Rosetta Stone of ABR encoding (image courtesy of Beamr). Apple TN2224 was originally posted in March 2010 to provide direction for streaming producers encoding for delivery to iOS devices via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Because the document was so comprehensive and well thought out, and HLS became so successful, TN2224 has often been thought of …

I spoke at Streaming Media West on three topics, the first a 3-hour workshop which was not recorded, and two one-hour sessions that were. The PDFs used in the presentations have been available for awhile; I just added the videos from the two sessions. Here are the links. Workshop – Encoding 2016: Codecs and Packaging for PCs, Mobile and OTT/STB/Smart …