May, 2013

• 8 May

  Review: Dish Network’s Hopper With Sling Is the One to Beat

  Review: Dish Network's Hopper With Sling Is the One to Beat The latest Dish DVR offers integrated Sling functionality and wireless iPad transfers. After thorough testing, we call it a winner.

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• 8 May

  Ozer Book tapped for GMU Engineering Course

  Ken Santucci, a professor at George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Engineering, teaches Concepts of Multimedia Processing and Transmission, a class so popular, that it has a waiting list each semester. When choosing a textbook for the class, Santucci chose Jan Ozer’s new book, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery. “The choice was simple,” Santucci commented. “It’s the only …

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• 6 May

  The Adobe Creative Suite is Dead

  OK, a bit melodramatic, but today at Adobe Max, the company’s annual creativity conference, Adobe announced that they were killing the suite to sell the Creative Cloud product which is only available via a periodic license. The primary benefit to the user is that updates are incorporated when available, as opposed to the 18 month cycle that the product typically …

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• 1 May

  Review: Telestream Vantage Transcode Multiscreen

  It's a valuable addition to the Vantage Workflow family, but is Transcode Multiscreen the fastest encoder around? Read our detailed test results.

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• 1 May

  Commentary: DASH Is Overrated—Enough Already!

  The problem MPEG-DASH solves isn't that big a deal, and it's not going to make anyone's life simpler in the short term.

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• 1 May

  How I spent the First Half of 2013

  Streaming Learning Center has been quiet for the last few months. Primarily, that relates to getting two large projects done, and making two presentations. The two projects were two books, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery, and an upcoming Visual QuickStart Guide on Premiere Pro for the Creative Suite 7 version of that Adobe Product. You can read about …

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April, 2013

• 23 April

  Adobe to add HLS and DASH to Primetime

  Adobe's plans for Primetime highlight both the strengths and limitations of HLS and DASH, as well as the fact that Flash isn't going away anytime soon

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• 6 April

  Jan Ozer: Opening Act, NAB 2013

  I was the opening act for NAB 2013, speaking at at 8:00 AM on Saturday morning for the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The talk was on Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery and a surprisingly enthusiastic group of around 300+ broadcast engineers showed up despite the hour (you can download the handout below). Not to boast, but I’ll share a …

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• 2 April

  Ozer releases book: Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery

  New book helps streaming producers navigate the confusing waters of live and on-demand delivery to multiple platforms, covering both adaptive and single file delivery. Galax, VA – April 2, 2013 – The Streaming Learning Center announced the immediate availability of Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery. Written by streaming producer and compression expert Jan Ozer, the book costs $39.99 …

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• 2 April

  Ozer releases new book, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery

  Note to reader: Much, but not all of this book has been superceded by Jan Ozer’s new book, Video Encoding by the Numbers:Eliminate the Guesswork from Your Streaming Video (2017). Specifically, the new book deeply examines encoding parameters for H.264, VP9, and HEVC, as well as ABR streaming in HLS and DASH formats. However, the new book does not cover …

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