Description: Many owners of codec-related patents feel like streaming services have paid far less than their fair share for the business opportunities that compression technologies have afforded. This was a taboo until recently, but it's starting to look like 2024 might be the year that this taboo changes for streaming services. During this session, participants discuss the equities involved in paying to support the innovation ecosystem, codec royalties on content, the relevant current and imminent lawsuits, and plans by patent owners and patent pools.

Description: Making live streams and streaming platforms, players, and apps accessible is a key concern for anyone delivering D2C content as well as those fostering streaming-based communications behind the corporate firewall. Whether meeting broadcast or W3C accessibility standards, providing captions and transcripts is critical. While AI has emerged as a convenient, cost-effective, and widely used vehicle for improving the accessibility of live and VOD content, all AI captioning solutions are not created equal, and content providers’ opinions vary on when and where it’s appropriate to use. This session explores best practices and requirements for making streaming, VOD, and conferencing content more accessible; how the enabling technologies are evolving; and how streaming platform and channel providers and producers are practicing and implementing streaming accessibility today.

Description: What are the most critical business and technical challenges of live streaming in late 2023? What platforms and protocols are in play, from acquisition and ingest to delivery? Is the transition to cloud workflows still a prevailing trend? What are realistic expectations for streaming latency, and where are streamers and audiences prioritizing it highest? And how is the device landscape shaping up for live content consumption? Data takes center stage again at Streaming Media Connect as we report findings from Streaming Media’s latest live streaming survey, conducted in September of this year, so the findings are fresh, and the analysis is even fresher.

Description: Industry leaders discuss and present the latest cutting-edge solutions and strategies to help you maximize efficiencies and minimize costs in your streaming video workflow. ATTEND FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD!


Title: Tech Talk: Live Demo: Magewell’s Director Mini All-in-One Production & Streaming System
Time: 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Description: Combining multi-input switching, graphics, streaming, recording and monitoring in one portable device, Magewell’s Director Mini all-in-one live production and streaming system has been creating buzz in the video production community since its unveiling in September. See what the excitement is about and learn what makes Director Mini unique in this live demonstration of its extensive input flexibility, production tools and output capabilities.


Title: Tech Talk: Turbo-Charged Just-in-Time Transcoding: A Game-Changer for Distribution
Time: 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Description: Blazar, the Just-In-Time Transcoding (JITT) solution from igolgi, enables many new streaming use cases, as well as the ability to slash CapEx, OpEx, and carbon emissions for transcoding.  For example, targeted ad insertion can be improved by dynamically inserting the best ad.  For streaming OTT systems, Blazar JITT allows operators to reduce the size of their origin/cache and VOD systems by 50% or more since Blazar JITT can be used to provide any lower profile requested on-the-fly, and therefore only the top profile needs to be maintained in the system.  This slashes costs and energy usage. Blazar also has the ability to regenerate any arbitrary profile on-the-fly, which in turn can enable a completely new evolution to content distribution by not requiring a static profile set in a manifest. Blazar can run on-premise or in the cloud and is in production today.


Title: Tech Talk: Live Demo: The Next Generation of Professional Live-Streaming Software With Wirecast
Time: 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Description: Join a live demo of the latest version of Wirecast, and discover how you can create engaging video experiences for audiences everywhere. As the most robust, powerful, customizable live video streaming and production tool, Wirecast allows you to capture, produce, and stream high-quality video content all in one place. Wirecast offers automated production workflows, animated graphics and title templates, built-in multi-streaming and ISO recording, and a vast Stock Media Library to boot. Take your productions to the next level with Wirecast’s latest features, including a new AI-powered virtual assistant, a Zoom integration for remote panel productions, support for custom LUTS and video filters, and more.

Description: It goes without saying that better data—effectively analyzed—is the key to better ROI, both for streaming services and their advertisers. But what if you’re not among the O&Os of the streaming world, and you don’t control the platform or the data that goes with it? Knowing what makes viewers engage and why and when they disengage (i.e., churn) is the name of the game in streaming analytics, but these are broad categories, and identifying key datapoints and interpreting them effectively are the game itself. How much actionable analytics advice can four Streaming Media Connect panelists cram into 1 hour? Tune in and find out.