The benefits of per-title optimization aren’t just for the major players, anymore. Streaming Media reviews the first solution for smaller content owners and finds the results promising. Netflix announced the beginning of the end for fixed encoding ladders with a December 2015 blog post called, “Per-­Title Encode Optimization”. The big question was, what would replace them? For companies with the …

The Netflix Open Connect team announced earlier this week that it would be using Transport Level Security. Here’s a look at its innovative approach to protecting viewing data at scale. In a blog post earlier this week called “Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale,” the Netflix Open Connect team detailed the innovative approach the company used to implement HTTPS to …

By creating a video mixer that’s accessible from any location, EasyLive promises no-fuss live streaming to multiple platforms. Here’s how it performed in our testing. The simplest way to understand the EasyLive service is to think of it as a video mixer in the cloud. You can input videos from multiple sources; add titles, logos, Twitter feeds, and scorecards; and …