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Notes about video ecosystem – week 49
A new week ends, and here is my selection of news or analyse to keep in mind. Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco) works at Netflix and gave last week during the AWS re:Invent a talk about High Availability...
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Mistserver – a new multimedia streaming server – First overview
Mistserver is a open-source multimedia streaming server developed by DDVTech a company based in Netherlands. This server will support some technologies : HLS, HDS, Smooth Streaming, RTMP, … For the...
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Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 – Setup PHLS live stream
Here is a How to, the objective is to demonstrate the setup of a PHLS live stream. PHLS means Protected HLS : the custom format of HLS by Adobe. The protection is realized with a AES-128 encryption on...
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Precision about HTTP streaming format in Adobe Media Server
To begin this new year, I make this post on a subject which can introduce misunderstandings. Previously, Adobe named it streaming server : Flash Media Server (aka FMS) v4.5. In october 2012, Adobe...
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AWS re:Invent 2012 – selection of interesting media tracks
The Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference was done in last November at Las Vegas. There was some talks about different applications or different usage of the cloud solution provide by Amazon. I...
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Release of cloud services to manage media contents
The beginning of this year 2013 is full of news in the transcoding cloud world. The two main platforms announced the release of their own solutions : Microsoft with Azure Media Services (the 22th of...
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REST cookbook
A new small blog post where I sticked informations or links about Rest and Restful :a style of architecture for distributed softwares. This post will be updated each time I have new links. Restful is...
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Notes about video ecosystem – week 12 – TV Connect – DASH
There was TV Connect event in London during this week. This was the opportunity to many company make announcements or talk about the video ecosystem. Daniel Danker, BBC iPlayer chief, said after the...
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MistServer – new features for the version 1.1
I made last year a post to introduce a new streaming server : MistServer. From this article, I follow all the updates made by the team. The DDVTech team released the server in version 1.1 the 31th...
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Notes about video ecosystem – week 15 – NAB – Videos players – HEVC
A main event took place this week the NAB at Las Vegas. There was some news around this event. Here is my selection : Ericsson agrees to buy Microsoft’s Mediaroom. Mediaroom is the platform for IPTV...
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Mistserver – Optimize the HTTP delivery via caching
In the previous post, we looked the new features of MistServer (version 1.1). Today, I expose an idea exposed by a friend Nicolas Weil. We talked about the content caching for an architecture based on...
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Notes about video ecosystem – week 16
Here is the little list of news or article for this week about the video ecosystem. The DRM debate is dead and both sides won Rovi commissioned Frost and Sullivan to make an analyse on HEVC – An...
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Notes about video ecosystem – week 17
A new week with few news about the video ecosystem : BBC provides each month a report on it iPlayer usage. There was for example 272 million BBC iPlayer requests in March. You can find the report here....
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Notes about video ecosystem – week 20 – DRM – VP9 – Encoding – Live
A new week with some interesting news in our ecosystem. A new streaming protocol was announced last week by Toshiba based on Divx Plus. Here is the PR. Youtube opened the subscription. They fires up...
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Play with ffserver – a quick overview
Everybody knows ffmpeg the command line encoding tool but do you know ffserver ? ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. With it, you can stream over HTTP, RTP and RSTP. Quick...
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How to create and architecture an open-source and/or free video platform ?
This post is the result of a sort of challenge. The objective is to create an architecture to generate, manage and deliver HTTP streaming videos using free and/or open-source tools and/or applications....
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[OVFS] Speaker at the next SATIS expo in Paris
I will be a speaker (as panelist) in one session during the next Satis expo in Paris. This session is called : “White card to the Online Video French Squad”. Online Video French Squad a french group of...
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Live to VoD workflows – which solutions ?
For many companies, especially for broadcasters, there is a common question : how can I de-linearize the live to create VoD contents ? During last IBC, I made a turn of the different tools which can...
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News from video ecosystem – week 47 – Encoding, VOD, Streaming Media West
I begin a thread I abandon months ago. Those posts will give an overview of the main news I identify this week. Dutch broadcasters (NPO, RTL and SBS) to launch common SVOD portal. Earlier this month,...
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News from video ecosystem – week 48
A new week with few news… Have a good read ! During Streaming Media West, last week, Jan Ozer gets some inputs about HEVC. HEVC Likely to be Subject to Similar Royalty Structure as H.264 SFR, a french...
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