In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve updated the Streaming Learning Center design to enable an improved learning experience. As part of this redesign, I’ll be holding more educational webinars. The first is a six-part webinar series entitled Rebuild Your Encoding Ladder. If you haven’t looked at your encoding ladder in awhile, you’ll find this course particularly useful as Apple has completely changed …

Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less, is an entry-level book for developers who need to produce single MP4 or adaptive groups with FFmpeg, the free, open-source utility used in some of the largest encoding farms in the world. The book also includes a primer on terms and technologies related to streaming and recommended settings for …

At the recent World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Apple announced that the next versions of Safari, iOS, and tvOS will support HLS with HEVC encoded video. This puts Apple firmly in the HEVC camp, with the Alliance for Open Media camp (Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, and many others) supporting the AV1 codec (and the VP9 codec before …