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

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

Video: x265 – An Update

From VideoLAN’s Video Dev Days event 2018, this talk discusses the latest updates to x265, a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.265/MPEG-H HEVC compression format, released under GNU GPL.

Pradeep Ramachandran, Principal Engineer at Multicore takes us through:

  • The highlights of the last year
  • HDR Encoding
  • AVX-512 optimisation
  • ABR Streaming Improvements
  • Chunked Encoding Support
  • Improving the footprint of x265

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Video: FOX Sports Revolutionises Delivery of the 2018 FIFA World Cup


At IBC 2018, FOX Sports, Telestream and Aspera explained how they dealt with the masses of content generated at the FIFA World Cup 2018.

Find out how FOX Sports built their workflow to produce the games with teams in both LA and Sochi.

  • Reed Kaufman explains which teams remained in the US and who was at the onsite IBC (International Broadcast Centre) in Russia and the benefits of keeping some work in the US.
  • Auto-Generation of 29,000 video clips by Watson/Thuuz AI engine
  • International Connectivity Concerns
  • Ken Haren discusses how Telestream created an AVC-I workflow which functioned both on-premise and in the cloud recording 3000 live streams and managing 22,600 clips in Reach Engine.
  • And Mike Flathers details how Aspera linked the two countries with FASP Stream integrated directly into the Telestream infrastructure.

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Speakers

Reed Kaufman,
Executive Director, Post Production at Fox Sports

Ken Haren,
Marketing Director,
Telestream

Mike Flathers,
CTO
Aspera, an IBM Company

 

Video: Mozilla TechSpeakers – AV1 Video Codec

AV1 is much talked about. We know what it promises, but how many of us remember what it does and why it is so promising?

Here, Mozilla – a member of the Alliance for Open Media – takes us through what AV1 is, how it works, why it promises to fare better than HEVC.

Covering:
• Brief history of video viewering royalty codecs
• What makes AV1 different
• The tools AV1 uses
• Quality Benchmarks
• HEVC Licensing
And much more

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