A look at the principles behind remote production and how to use technology to maximise production quality and financial savings.
Given at NAB2017, Ed Calverley looks at how the current standards work is enabling true end-to-end IP-based production and how standards such as SMPTE ST 2110 enable systems to interoperate in a much more flexible way than was possible with SDI. As an example, during the Euro 2016 soccer tournament, a time compensated 2-stage switching solution was frame accurately controlled over a limited-bandwidth link.
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Video: Improving Video Quality and Reducing Bandwidth by Going Beyond Fixed Bit-Rate ABR Recipe
This panel discusses real-world methods, techniques, and solutions for moving beyond traditional fixed bit-rate ABR profiles to a content adaptive approach, where the encoding bit-rate is determined by the needs of the video vs. a pre-determined recipe. Come hear innovative thinking that, if adopted, can yield a 20% or potentially higher savings while improving the quality of your video encodes.
Moderator: Mark Donnigan, VP, Marketing – Beamr
Jan Ozer, Principal – Streaming Learning Center and Contributing Editor, Streaming Media
David Sayed, VP, Product Strategy & Product Marketing – Brightcove
P.P.S. Narayan, Vice President, Engineering – Yahoo
Daniel Sanders, VP, Video Engineering – Verizon Digital Media Services
Video: Comparing and Choosing The Best HEVC Codec
On-demand Presentation
Content distributors and aggregators adding HEVC to their delivery pipeline will have plenty of codec options, but who has the time to evaluate their features, output quality, and performance?
No worries—codec specialist Jan Ozer has done the work for you. He’s evaluated leading contenders like x265, MainConcept, Beamr, Intel, and NTT and he’ll share his results. You’ll walk away from this session with a much clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of your HEVC encoding options for VOD streaming.
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Video: Discovery’s cloud workflows and Channel Origination. AWS re:Invent.
On-Demand Video of a talk at AWS re-Invent 2016
Discovery Communications is well known in broacast circles for their move the the cloud, arguably ahead of the curve. But their partnership with AWS continues and appears to have resulted in a felxibly, reliable infrastructure which has gone hand in hand with a move of Enterprise IT to the cloud.
This talk walks through Discovery’s migration of broadcast playout supporting hundreds of channels worldwide to AWS. It shows how Discovery has not only reduced their Total Cost of Ownership but also has improved their agility by launching new channels on demand. We also walk through how channel origination is being deployed in a secure, automated fashion, and with a level of high availability that exceeds what is possible in a traditional data center.
