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“Wonderful Course” for New Media Professionals

This software development manager found Streaming Media 101 “worth taking” for all new media professionals.  I’ve never met Spoorti Hallur from Xperi Corporation in person (we’re connected on LinkedIn), but I’m guessing she’s a glass-half-full kind of person. At least she seems that way in the fabulous review she just gave the course Streaming Media 101: Technical Onboarding for Streaming …

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Webinar: Comparing EVC, LCEVC, and VVC with H.264, HEVC, and AV1

This video compares VVC, EVC, and LCEVC with H.264, HEVC, and AV1, considering quality, USP, royalty status, key stakeholders, producibility, and playability. You can watch an archived version of the webinar on YouTube by scrolling to the bottom of the page. You can download the handout here. This video is a webinar comparing VVC, EVC, and LCEVC with H.264, HEVC, and …

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Learn to Use AWS Elemental Auto-ABR

A recent tutorial posted on Streaming Media Magazine details how to use AWS Elemental’s Auto-ABR feature. Here’s the scintillating intro. Per-title encoding has been around since 2016, delivering significant bandwidth savings, QoE improvements, or both to companies that deploy it (click here for a backgrounder on per-title encoding). Those benefits notwithstanding, a recent Bitmovin survey revealed that only 35% of …

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