September 23, 2020

Online Video News

Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence: "A New Way to Make Money"

New standards body MPAI plans to develop new specifications for data coding, using AI to bridge the gap between technology and licensing.

IBC: 5G Live Broadcast Demo Shows Work Needs To Be Done

An ambitious demo for IBC's Showcase brought together multiple broadcasters and vendors to demonstrate 5G's potential for remote production, but showed that it's a long way from ready for primetime

Streaming Media West Connect is This Week

We've got speakers from Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, Comcast, and more talking about all things OTT and streaming video next week. Registration is free! Read on to find out more.

Featured Articles

AV1 Has Arrived: Comparing Codecs from AOMedia, Visionular, and Intel/Netflix

Within 24 months, hardware support appeared, encoding became affordable, and AV1 became a much more realistic competitor to HEVC. Here's how the currently available AV1 codecs measure up.

Low Latency HLS Spec Nears Finalization

Beyond the Pantos spec and into DASH, LL-HLS finds traction and a potential tie-in with CMAF

Short Cuts

Key Considerations for OTT Integration

Verizon's Darren Lepke and Streaming Media's Nadine Krefetz discuss the importance of efficiency, cost, metrics, and ad partnerships in OTT integration in this clip from Streaming Media East Connect 2020.

Best Practices for Server-Side Ad Insertion

fuboTV's Geir Magnusson, Sinclair's Michael Bouchard, Reality Software's Nadine Krefetz, Eyevinn's Magnus Svensson, and Verizon's Darren Lepke discuss SSAI best practices in this clip from Streaming Media East Connect 2020.

Industry News

Join TAG and Zixi as They Simplify Monitoring & Delivery Over IP in a Webinar on September 24

Join TAG and Zixi as They Simplify Monitoring & Delivery Over IP in a Webinar on September 24

BuyDRM Releases KeyQ™ Analytics Portal to Provide Customers Critical DRM Usage Data Points

Discover Digital Uses KeyQ To Monitor Delivery Across Sub-Saharan Africa

LTN Global announces seamless interoperability between networks with AWS Elemental MediaConnect

LTN Global, announces seamless interoperability with AWS Elemental MediaConnect to enable customers to distribute content to hundreds of locations via LTN’s highly robust, low-latency multicast IP network and Amazon Web Services (AWS).