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  Note to reader: Much, but not all of this book has been superceded by Jan Ozer’s new book, Video Encoding by the Numbers:Eliminate the Guesswork from Your Streaming Video (2017).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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March, 2013

• 26 March

  Review: Teradek VidiU, a First Look at the Compact H.264 Encoder

  Small and affordable, the VidiU lets broadcasters stream HD from anywhere. But, one flaw keeps us from calling it a must-buy

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• 5 March

  From Russia With Love

  In March, I visited Moscow to speak at the Connected TV Forum. The trip was sponsored by NGENIX, the leading regional CDN in Russia and CIS, and their CEO, Konstantin Chumachenko, was the first to reach out. My talk, Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery (and you can download the handouts here), was formulated with the help of Konstantin and conference …

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February, 2013

• 14 February

  What Is HEVC (H.265)?

  H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the successor codec to H.264, which, like H.264, is jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is 50 percen

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• 8 February

  Portland Community College’s Multimedia Program Switches to Adobe Creative Suite

  There’s been a lot of back and forth about how Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) has been accepted in the marketplace. Before its introduction, though Adobe had been making headway against Final Cut Pro 7 (FCP7), it’s fair to say that FCP7 had greater mindshare in the educational and professional educational community. My own informal discussions with many educators and …

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• 7 February

  Is it just me, or is there nothing more stupid in the world than Linked-in Endorsements?

  Is it just me, or is there nothing more stupid in the world than Linked-in Endorsements? I got another this morning, from one of the hundreds of LinkIn connections who I only tangentially know, and who I have never produced work for in the field that he endorsed me in. Hootie-Hoo, those consulting dollars are going to fly in now. …

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January, 2013

• 7 January

  HTML5-Compatible Market Share Tops 68%

  HTML5 video is all the rage, but if your viewer's browser isn't HTML5-compatible, the video won't play unless you fallback to Flash or similar technology. I'm working on a new book and wanted to determine the percentage of desktop browsers that are H

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