A recent report published by Unisphere Research and Streaming Media magazine, and sponsored by Beamr, …
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The HEVC IP Mess is Worse than you Think
A recent article in IPWatchdog analyzed HEVC-related patent ownership and found that “only one-third of …
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One visual quality metric that’s getting a bit more love lately is the Structured Similarity Index …
Read More »Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less: 2018 Edition
The internet is full of free FFmpeg documentation. Why should you pay $34.95 for my book …
Read More »Per-Title Encoding Resources
For all talk about the new AV1 codec or HEVC in HLS, the simplest and …
Read More »Applying Quality Metrics to Configure 2D and 3D Video
At NAB 2018 I gave a talk on applying quality metrics to 2D and VR …
Read More »What’s the Optimal Duration for Your Product Video?
Though I spend most of my time focusing on video production and encoding, I’m also …
Read More »Compute Your Own Bjontegaard Functions (BD-Rate)
Figure 1. BD-rate savings from AV1 as published by Facebook. When Facebook compared the AV1 …
Read More »Much Ado About Not Much (HEVC Support in Android)
Much has been made about Google’s support for HEVC in Android, including I hate to …
Read More »Download Handout from Encoding Live and VOD for HEVC in HLS
This was a pre-conference workshop; here’s the description, download the handout below. Note that there …
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