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5 min read

High-frequency key rotation: top scorer for live sports streaming

The appetite for live sports streaming has never been greater. It's the thrill of live. This makes them both high-value and highly attractive to pirates. How can you guard live streams against piracy without weakening the viewer's experience?
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

Personal channels in a box

Discover how virtual channel scaling can unlock thousands of personalized streaming channels.
Mark Ogle
Senior Staff Engineer
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

AI Regulation in Europe

Work in media? In Europe? Then you probably know about the EU AI Act. Parts of the law kick in soon. Here's what to know and how to prepare.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

Beat the workflow heat with update 1.15.26

For GA release 1.15.26, we help you optimize your day-to-day summer streaming ops. Here are eight highlights from the release notes.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

Unified Certified: upgraded

The refreshed Unified Certified course is now live. Streaming professionals can build practical skills with Unified Streaming products. How? Through hands-on learning and real-world problem-solving. Grads gain confidence in managing video workflows and join a global community of certified streaming experts.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
4 min read

VOD dynamic packaging: the upgrade your streaming workflow probably needs

Dynamic packaging (JIT packaging) simplifies VOD delivery by storing a single source file and generating the required format and DRM on demand. This approach reduces storage costs, improves flexibility, supports multiple devices and streaming formats, and helps broadcasters and streaming providers build more efficient, scalable, and future-ready workflows.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

What did we learn from streaming the FIFA Club World Cup?

What's it take to stream a global sports event at scale? Discover 13 key lessons learned from delivering the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 for DAZN, covering reliability, scalability, DRM, ad insertion, latency, device support, and resilience in live sports streaming.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

Verifiable Authenticity for Streaming Video: Achieved. Demo with WDR and Qualabs at NAB 2026

An end-to-end, verifiable chain-of-trust for live and on-demand video streams.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

Late reflections on NAB 2026

What happened at NAB Show in April 2026? Ksenia reflects on trends, and shares what she learned in conversations on the show floor (and off). Considering booking your spot at NAB Show 2027? Read on!
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

So you want to stream a major sports event

Premium live sports streaming is a high-stakes environment where failure is public and unforgiving. In this blog, explore the unique technical challenges behind delivering seamless live events, from synchronized traffic spikes and strict security requirements to redundancy, ad handling, and device limitations. Success in sports streaming isn’t just about starting the stream—it’s about surviving the entire event without breaking.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
Valentijn Siebrands
Streaming Solutions Manager
5 min read

E-messages Explained

In streaming, e-messages do a lot of the heavy lifting. They tell devices what’s up, and what to do. So let's dive in and explore the myriad ways e-messages optimize streaming.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
3 min read

New GA arrives, fresh ‘n’ ready

Software's a hard row to hoe, but everything's fecund this year. Soil's rich and ready for new features to shoot up. For GA release 1.15.20, we planted fixes and features to help you grow your stream. Here are a few highlights.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

What’s getting expensive? Playing it safe

The media industry is not short on technology. Yet something’s missing. After visiting two conferences in Europe, Unified Streaming Solutions Manager Valentijn Siebrands wrote down his thoughts on the state of the streaming industry.
Valentijn Siebrands
Streaming Solutions Manager
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

AI in video streaming: practical use cases for Unified Streaming workflows

AI is now the default buzzword on every conference slide and product page. Though not an AI vendor, Unified Streaming does integrate its products well with AI systems. Find out how.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

Unified Streaming APIs: Build your own control plane

APIs. They allow you to connect our software to your existing workflows and tools, making them more programmable, observable, and integrated with everything else you run.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

Next steps? Seven sticky situations facing streamers, content owners today

Streaming content, owning the rights to content: it’s not for the faint of heart. With profits hanging in the balance, you need to make the right moves. Here are seven situations that you face today, perhaps, as well as ways you can get through them with grace, and, let’s face it, win.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

2026 streaming trends: Unified experts predict

Three experts from Unified Streaming sit down and ponder the question "What trends will dominate streaming in 2026?"
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

New year, new you, new GA

It’s that time of year again. Time for a new version of our software. For GA release 1.15.16, we brewed up new fixes and features to help you stream more easily. Here are a few highlights from the release notes.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

R&D wrapped: Unified’s team sums up 2025

Unified Streaming’s research and development cadre traveled and pumped out presentations and projects this past year. Let’s glance back at the R&D team’s trips and tricks in 2025. (And at the end, we’ll clue you into what’s in store for 2026.)
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
5 min read

How streaming tech’s humble hero, Unified Origin, inspired an ode

The eight stanzas of “Ode to the Origin” pay lyrical tribute to an unsung workhorse: Unified Origin.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Pepijn Tijhuis
Streaming Jester 4 New Business
5 min read

Fabric: trailers woven with tech

Encoding over 1500 videos every month, Fabric needs a simple way to deliver the encoded videos back to their customers fast. Unified Streaming provides a way to simplify Fabric’s encoding process, and make the content available to Fabric’s clients, quickly.
Hans H.
A writer, of sorts
4 min read

Niche to meet you! Niche & single-IP virtual channels: what they are, why they win, and how to launch one

Why niche and single-IP FAST channels beat generic: clear promise, better discovery, cheaper rights. Ideas, playbook, and what’s next.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5.75 min read

You say you want an evolution: new upgrade refines features

Unified Streaming releases its new GA software update.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Imagine dragons: at Unified's IBC booth, streaming warriors assemble

Unified Streaming went big, not home, at IBC 2025 with a bold new retro-styled campaign.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

Everything you wanted to know about the new USP software version (but were afraid to ask)

The new GA (general availability) release 1.15.9 from Unified Streaming is now live. To help customers stream more efficiently, the upgrade packs in the features and fixes. What do the fixes mean? What do they mean to you?
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Streaming industry trends: AI, FAST, monetization, and more

The streaming industry in 2025 is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by consumer behavior changes and cutting-edge AI technologies. At Unified Streaming, we've been monitoring these shifts closely.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

C2PA and Unified Streaming: guards of content authenticity

Launched in 2021, media and tech industry-led C2PA seeks to embed signed metadata into digital media files, ensuring that each piece of content’s source and integrity remains verified during its journey throughout the internet. Unified Streaming is very active in the space.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

The abso-briefest guide to media processing, featuring the Unified MPU

Unified Streaming’s MPU (Media Processing Unit) enhances streaming workflows by enabling media generation and processing capabilities.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
4 min read

Long live the EAA, long live accessibility, long live solutions

All streaming platforms and broadcasters operating in countries within the European Union have to make their services accessible to individuals with disabilities. Unified Streaming can help you comply.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Surprise! Monetize! Eventize! Pop-up channels: what they are, why they’re run, and why they’re fun

Pop‑up channels represent the next phase of streaming innovation. Unified Streaming can provide the technical pillars to make pop-ups possible.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min

Who killed the fossa?

On May 31, 2025, Ubuntu 20.04, or Ubuntu 20 as it’s generally known, will no longer be supported by the latest software version of Unified Streaming.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Pepijn Tijhuis
Streaming Jester 4 New Business
5 min read

Wherefore REaP? Whither REaP? (And what the heck is REaP?)

REaP is mainly about building redundancy into a streaming workflow to ensure continuity of presentation in case a source fails. It’s also about storing presentations for viewing later, using a similar approach to VOD. A question and answer session.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Roberto Ramos Chávez
Research Engineer
Mohamad Raad
Standardization Representative
5 min read

FAST channels in 2025: trends, growth, future challenges

Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels have gone big, not gone home. And they’ve achieved this feat by popping up in more and more homes.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Mixing VOD with live, via one API call: the journey from VOD2Live to Unified Virtual Channel, and beyond

Tech improvements and shifts in the streaming media industry have changed Unified Virtual Channel for the better. The solution now yields more value for the companies that deploy it, and their end users, too.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
4 min read

Wanna boost your media conditioning? Media processing makes it easy!

Squeezing every drop of performance, efficiency, and flexibility out of your media processing workflows is no longer a pipe dream. With Media Processing Unit (MPU), you’re equipped to conquer today’s challenges and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities.
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
4 min read

Terminology mindgames: replacing Unified Transcoding with Media Processing —and making life better for everyone

Unified Transcoding has always been a challenge for us. For several reasons. For one, Unified Transcoding led to misunderstandings, because it didn't perform all the functions typically expected of a “Transcoder.”
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
6 min read

Dr. Streamlove or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Delta Update

Meet Playlist Delta Updates: a wiser way of managing big HLS playlists. A story of a single feature, from customer request to reality. 
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Unified’s R&D team finishes 2024 strong

Unified Streaming’s research and development division kept itself occupied with all sorts of projects this past year. In the streaming industry, just as it is in the R&D team at Unified Streaming, a big share of technological progress can be chalked up to collaboration.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Accessibility: streaming for everyone

Unified Streaming considers accessibility vital for streaming and good for people. We support this positive social initiative, so we make sure accessibility is simple to implement and deliver.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
7 min read

Watermarking, in a nutshell (and how Unified Streaming helps you fight pirates)

Video piracy’s a big, tricky thing for content creators, streaming platforms, and studios. Annually, the cost of imposters passing programming off as theirs can soar into the billions of dollars.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
7 min read

IMAX Enhanced: a bird’s‑eye view on the standard

Immersive home entertainment tech: what’s not to love? You flop down on your sofa, fire up your device, and as the content plays, all sorts of good feelings come up.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
4 min read

MPEG‑H: a bird’s‑eye view on the codec

At some point, everyone goes on a quest. And just like there’s all sorts of people, there’s all sorts of quests. Some people go on a quest to find love.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

What’s CMAF ingest? Why’s it streaming’s secret sauce?

CMAF ingest is a collaboration between members of the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) and companies operating within the OTT industry.
Jamie Fletcher
Senior Streaming Solutions Engineer
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

Mulling over MPEG 147 with Mohamad Raad

To misquote Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, ​“It was the 147th of times, it was the 45th of times.”
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

DTS: a bird's-eye view on the codec

Let’s explore what DTS audio means, how Unified Streaming integrates DTS audio, why DTS audio is crucial, and which benefits the unique combo of Unified and DTS gives to customers.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
4 min read

Dolby Vision: a bird’s‑eye view on the format

In streaming, there’s a simple relationship between quality and satisfaction. If the streaming quality is good, users are happy and don’t complain. But if the streaming quality is poor, users howl and head for the exits.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

AV1: a bird's-eye view on the codec

There are gobs of content out there. Even on a good day it’s hard to tell the difference between one gob of content and another gob. So how do you set your content apart?
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
3 min read

Unified Virtual Channel insights, from customers and partners

Unified Virtual Channel debuted in Unified Streaming’s product portfolio in early 2023. Since then the company has enriched the product, adding more features and refining its operation. Frankly, industry interest in Unified Virtual Channel has been keen.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

Virtual channels: common use cases, uncommon value

FAST channels. They’re getting front rows at trade shows. They’re getting bullet points at business meetings. They’re getting headlines and eyes on screens. Is the hype real?
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

The tale of the telco and the skips; or, how playing a niche role helps our customers

Recently a major telco, a client we’ve worked with for years, brought a problem to our attention.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Into the sync tank; or, Do all your media swim in the same direction?

The other day, a peer in the streaming community reached out via our Unified Certified Slack channel (our forum for exchanging advice with our software course grads). He had a question about live transcribed subtitles.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
7 min read

End of life (self-deprecating)

If you’ve ever played the video game Grand Theft Auto, you’ve felt it. The thrill!
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

Wanted: troubleshooters on the streaming frontier

Issues pop up outta nowhere. They try to corner you. They try to kill your streaming workflow.
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
7 min read

Mark Ogle, lead developer of Unified Virtual Channel

I sat at a café with my colleague Mark Ogle, senior staff engineer at Unified Streaming (and someone far smarter than I). Coffee was our drink. Unified Virtual Channel was our subject.
Mark Ogle
Senior Staff Engineer
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
5 min read

5 ways to launch channels fast

Do you know the phrase ​“cut to the chase”? It comes from early Hollywood. Movie execs said it, meaning, Let’s skip extra dialogue and go straight to the action. Like a chase scene. The saying caught on with the public. Now ​“cut to the chase” means ​“get to the point.”
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
4 min read

When 3‑letter language codes become 2; or, ISO frustrated

Size. In tech, we deal with it daily. We’re growing our profits. The meeting’s going longer than expected. The client wants a short turnaround. Video streaming devs can relate. In particular, the size of language codes has been flummoxing some of you recently.
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
8 min read

Go FAST, get personal, aim high, be unique, look back: 5 new ways to monetize content

Let’s say you’re a content creator, a content owner, a broadcaster, or an OTT streaming service.You’ve got some programming that’s not pulling its weight. It just … sits there.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
5 min read

If you’ve got it, flaunt it: 5 ways repurposing content is king

Now that you’ve got content, you want to stream it. But what else? Put in ads? Charge more for better quality? Create super-personalized experiences? How about this, though: how about . . . all of it?
Ksenia Rabinovich
Marketing Lead
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
4 min read

Webserver? I hardly even know her!

We live in an extraordinary age. Even our grandparents are on TikTok! Social media platforms make it all so easy.
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

I’m not offset, *you’re* offset

Where I come from, we have a phrase that I didn’t think was odd or absolutely horrific until I began writing this blog. “There are many ways to skin a cat.” I don’t know how many weird individuals are out there thinking of the various ways they could peel their pet . . .
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
8 min read

What does ​“Streaming meets linear TV” actually mean?

Slogans come and slogans go. If visitors pay any attention to a tagline on your site, at best they think, ​“huh.” Then they move on with their lives. So maybe we’d better explain what we mean by ​“streaming meets linear TV.”
Linzi McRae
Product Manager
Mark Ogle
Senior Staff Engineer
4 min read

So long, audio

“We are aligned.” So many people, so many things in this world need to align with others for them to work well. These things include audio tracks. With your video tracks.
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
3 min read

Frighteningly FAST — any place, any time — with Quickplay and Unified Streaming

“Everyone’s talking about FAST channels.” That’s not quite true.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
3 min read

Herd that

What’s that sound? Have you just started streaming that highly anticipated live sports match for the big streaming service you work for?
Roberto Ramos Chávez
Research Engineer
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
3 min read

Better come ARMed

This month’s question, which we’ve been getting a lot, is: How do I run a containerized setup of your software on my new Apple Silicon-based Mac?
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
5 min read

Misunderstanding tech, ep. 2: Regression test

Our company uses Slack. I’m an active member of about 5 channels, where I post comments, replies, and emojis. My comments and replies are either jokes or attempts at jokes.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
6 min read

Misunderstanding tech, ep. 1: Hyrum’s Law

The term ​“Hyrum’s Law” was brought up in a tech standup meeting the other day. I think a developer said some customer had jerry-rigged our source code for some peculiar (and, only to my mind, evil) purpose. Then he said, ​“So, yeah — it’s basically a classic case of Hyrum’s Law.”
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
7 min read

Cutting costs while streaming FAST: ad-supported live channels without a live encoder

I’d like to discuss free ad-supported TV, or FAST: how it can keep your streaming service more relevant, and how to run FAST without breaking the bank. Which I believe is possible if you can skip the need for a live encoder.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
10 min read

Beyond best-of-breed v. beast-of-breed: why an abstraction layer frees you up

Children are often praised for ​“playing well with others.” That same quality prized in kids can pay off for OTT (over-the-top) video streaming companies.
H.J.H.
Content and marketing
8 min read

Manifest Edit: How it started, and where it’s going

This blog’s about the history and mystery of Manifest Edit: how it started; how user feedback helped to improve it; and how it’s evolving.
Linzi McRae
Product Manager
11 min read

How to do certification programs; or, How Unified Certified works

Certification programs not only help trainees develop workforce-ready skills. They can also help companies that lead the programs foster relationships with customers, enabling these customers to use the company’s products to their full potential.
Hüseyin Eriş
Streaming Solutions Engineer
6 min read

How to create a virtual channel with our Remix VOD2Live demo

Today I’m going to demonstrate how easy it is to create new virtual live linear channels using Remix VOD2Live by repurposing existing content prepared for Video on Demand.
Mark Ogle
Senior Staff Engineer
4 min read

Introducing a new style of downloadable demos

Over the past year we have been working on making it easier for us to demonstrate our product features and for users to get started using them.
Mark Ogle
Senior Staff Engineer
20 min read

Load testing streaming video at scale, part 3: Optimizing streaming linear Live channels

In this third blog of our multi-part series on load testing video streaming at scale, we evaluate different Media Processing Functions (MPFs) in different parts of the network. We focus on achieving the best results when streaming linear Live channels.
Unified Streaming Team
12 min read

Load testing streaming video at scale, part 2: Optimizing remote object storage-based VOD

In this second blog of our multi-part series on load testing video streaming at scale, we evaluate different Video On Demand (VOD) setups that rely on remote object-based cloud storage services like S3.
Unified Streaming Team
7 min read

Load testing video streaming at scale, part 1: Introducing the testbed and cloud instance evaluation

Building your media delivery and choosing the right components can sometimes become an overwhelming task. This blog introduces a testbed to evaluate different setups. It takes a cloud-first approach and focuses on Real-Time Distributed Media Processing Workflows (DMPW) based on MPEG’s Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) standard.
Unified Streaming Team
14 min read

Talkin’ ​‘bout my demonstration: Continuous deployment of demos using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes

Unified Streaming Team
11 min read

Look mom, no Live encoder: the advantages of VOD2Live

The Unified Streaming Platform now supports Remix VOD2Live, a new way of creating a linear live channel from VOD assets without the need for a live encoder.
Unified Streaming Team
5 min read

Improving Unified Origin’s performance with cloud storage using Apache subrequests

As streaming service providers move to replace local storage solutions with cloud storage services, Unified Streaming is increasingly asked for best practices to optimize performance, reduce the cost and intelligently scale cloud-based video on-demand (VOD) deployments.
Unified Streaming Team
8 min read

Learn2Adapt: low-latency adaptive streaming

This blog post presents an online (machine) learning bitrate adaptation solution, that focuses on low-latency applications.
Unified Streaming Team
6 min read

Live Media Ingest (CMAF)

‍How the DASH-IF Live Media Ingest Protocol — Interface 1 using the CMAF file format can be utilised when ingesting media to a smart origin (just in time packager) within a live adaptive-bitrate streaming workflow.
Jamie Fletcher
Senior Streaming Solutions Engineer
13 min read

How to achieve low latency with what you’ve got

Channel zapping, sub-second, glass to glass, parity. What are we talking about?
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
9 min read

Efficient, scalable and reliable Personalized Video Recording with Unified Remix nPVR

The average person now has access to more streamable material than they could wish to watch in a lifetime. This means viewer capriciousness is increasing alongside their expectations on quality of experience.
Mark Perry
Streaming Support Engineer
6 min read

CMAF conformance: Is this really CMAF?

This past summer marked the third anniversary of the announcement of CMAF, the Common Media Application Format developed to increase the interoperability of streaming video.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
8 min read

Monetize any VOD library with third-party ad insertion using Remix AVOD

Server-side Dynamic Ad Insertion for VOD is hard and expensive, right? You’ll have to re-encode your entire content library, find a way to add the SCTE 35 markers necessary for ad insertion … and you may even need to upgrade your encoders to make it all work.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
21 min read

In the cloud #1: How to deploy a redundant VOD setup on AWS with Unified Origin

Deploying a setup in the cloud can vastly enhance your flexibility. Without the need to actually own any servers you can quickly spin up instances, so that you can scale up or down instantly.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
10 min read

How to do SCTE 35-based Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live streaming with Unified Origin

With the latest release of the Unified Streaming Platform, it becomes possible to do Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live. This new solution is based on industry practices and relies on SCTE 35 markers to signal advertisement opportunities, in combination with third-party ad services that insert the actual ads.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
8 min read

Content protection in the age of 4K and HDR: using hardware DRM with multiple keys

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a crucial component of many video streaming setups.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
7 min read

We chose CPIX to take advanced content protection to the next level: here's why

Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
7 min read

Why we chose CPIX to take advanced content protection to the next level

Content protection is one of the most important topics in video streaming and as it becomes more advanced and harder to circumvent, it also becomes more complicated to implement.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
4 min read

Advanced Live streaming and the need to further standardize ​‘Live ingest’

Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Live streaming is a demanding way of delivering video. In addition to the need for real-time encoding of the source video into tracks that represent different qualities, all of the different tracks must remain time-aligned and perfectly in sync.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
9 min read

Broaden your audience: accessibility features in video streaming

As the video streaming market has matured over the past years, quality of experience has improved a lot: consumers can choose from a wider variety of content offered by a wider variety of services, and almost all devices on the market can handle playback of high definition content.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
10 min read

How to make your media streams smarter using timed metadata

Signaling information about media content, what’s so fancy about that? Metadata may seem like the most boring part of a video streaming setup, but it is vital and adaptive bitrate streaming would not be possible without it.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
7 min read

Looking back: hot topics at IBC 2017

As the 2017 edition of one of the biggest trade shows in the broadcasting business has just finished, this blog post provides an overview of interesting topics presented at this year’s International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
15 min read

Welcome to the jungle: caption and subtitle formats in video streaming

Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
9 min read

The many advantages of dynamic packaging over static content

No large scale video streaming setup can be successful without supporting multiple playout formats. Such is the law dictated by the wide variety of end user devices, many of which have their own playout requirements for video.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
3 min read

Encrypted streams? Serve them via HTTPS or Chrome 58 won’t play them

From April 25th, 2017 onwards, when Chrome 58 is scheduled for release, DRM encrypted video streams served from a non-secure origin will no longer work in Google’s browser.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
11 min read

Stop numbering: The underappreciated power of DASH’s SegmentTimeline

Old habits die hard. This is true even for a fast-moving, technology-driven industry like video streaming.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
8 min read

The promises of CMAF and its compatibility with the Unified Streaming Platform

In June of 2016, the committee draft of the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) specification was released, bringing the promise of a single format for use in the encoding and packaging of media.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
10 min read

How containers make Unified Remix easy to customize and quick to deploy

While streaming media is rapidly becoming the dominant way in which video is consumed, current technology only offers limited flexibility when it comes to making on the fly changes to content, such as serving specific parts of a stream or inserting clips.
Boy van Dijk
Streaming Solutions Engineer
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