Russell Trafford-Jones, Author at The Broadcast Knowledge

Video: IBC Tech Talks: Codec Wars

Posted on 10th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From IBC, this is a fantastic line-up of 6 experts in the field of codecs who dive deep into the pros and cons of AV1, HEVC and discuss alternative codecs.

Three papers are presented showing the reality of the AV1 implementation to date, why there’s promise and why we’re not there yet.

The event moves on to a panel session which digs deep into HEVC licensing, challenger Codecs such as XVC and PERSEUS, and much about UHD and HEVC adoption.

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Featuring

	Chair – Ben Keen Analyst & Advisor – Technology, Media & Telecoms
	Ian Trow Presenting: AV1: Implementation, Performance and Applications Consultant, Business Development & Technology
	Jonatan Samuelsson Presenting: The XVC Video Codec – A Revolutionary Software-Defined Video Compression Format. Co-founder and CEO Divideon
	Andre Dias Presenting: An Overview of Recent Video Coding Developments in MPEG and AOMedia R&D Engineer BBC
	Ken McCann Director Zetacast
	Philippe Keutgen Technology Transfer and Partnerships Manager BBC
	Thierry Fautier Supporting Paper: Understanding the Video Codec Jungle: A Comparison of TCO and Compression Efficiency UHDF President Harmonic

Video: Low-Latency DASH streaming

Posted on 9th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From VideoLAN’s Video Dev Days 2018, Romain Bouqueau from GPAC and FireKast discusses MPEG DASH and how this helps us with low-latency streaming. Romain starts by looking at latency in Adaptive Streaming Workflow and then covers 4 false assumptions in streaming. We are walked through all the different points that latency can occur and we see how to reduce each before looking at the drawbacks.

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Speaker:

Romain Bouqueau

Video: SRT – Achieving Low-Latency, Reliable, Video Streaming over Public Networks

Posted on 8th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Real-life use cases on this innovative Open Source technology from the SRT Alliance recorded at IBC 2018.

SRT, Secure Reliable Transport, is an open source video transport protocol and technology stack that optimises streaming performance across unpredictable networks with secure streams and easy firewall traversal, bringing the best quality live video over the worst networks.

The SRT Open Source project, driven by the SRT Alliance, is a collaborative community of industry leaders and developers striving to achieve lower latency internet video transport by continuously improving open-source SRT.

At the end of the day, a technology is only as good as what it can actually do rather than what people promise and, in this talk, there are only real-world case studies from major companies. Including some brief words from Microsoft Azure’s Satish Annapureddy discussing Microsoft’s recent membership of the SRT alliance.

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Speakers:

Glenn Goldstein, Chief Technology Convergence Officer, Viacom
Marc Cymontkowski, Senior Director, Core Technology, Haivision
Tony Jones, Principal Technologist, MediaKind
Miljenko Logozar, Director of Technology Solutions & Integrations, Al Jazeera
Chris Smith, Development Executive, News Technology, Sky News

Meeting: IBC 2018 Review

Posted on 5th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Wednesday 10th October, 2018. 18:00 for 18:30 start.
Location: IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL

If you were unable to make it to IBC this year, this RTS event that will bring you up to speed on the highlights of the Exhibition and the Conference.

The panel of experts will guide you through the through the most exciting exhibitors and give you an overview of the hottest sessions and timely topics featured in the Conference which this year had more than 400 Speakers over five days.

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Speakers:

	Chair – Muki Kulhan Executive Digital Producer/Managing Director, Muki-International
	Keith Underwood Chief Operating Officer, Channel 4
	David W A Short Vice Chair of the IET Multimedia Communications Network
	Aradhna Tayal Director Radio TechCon/IBC’s ‘What Caught My Eye’ Social Media speaker
	James Lovell Territory Account Manager for UK Media, Cisco