CMAF

Video: CHUNKY MONKEY – using chunked-encoded chunked-transferred CMAF to bring low latency live to very large scale audiences

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Will Law from Akamai proves his chunky credentials by telling us how to achieve very low-latency streaming in his talk at Demuxed 2018.

In the jungle of solutions for low latency live streaming, there are many current options ranging from WebRTC, to proprietary UDP protocols to standard segmented media with ever-shortening segments. This session highlights one of these – chunked-encoded chunked-transferred CMAF – as an optimal and practical confluence of both reach and performance. On the technical side, we’ll investigate the underlying technology, the latency regimes possible, compatibility with legacy players, cachability on delivery networks and player behaviour requirements. Including live demonstrations of several streams on a production network. This talk looks at the standards from DVB and MPEG DASH as well as CDN support. As a sweetener, Will points you at open source code on both the encoder and player side for doing this all yourself.

Speaker:

Will Law Will Law
Chief Architect, Media Cloud Engineering
Akamai Technologies

Video: The Quest for Low-Latency Live Video

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


A great discussion from Streaming Media East discussing the battle to achieve Low-Latency Live Video by speakers from BAMTECH, Limelight and Red5Pro.In this session, learn about the pros and cons of various technologies on both the contribution and delivery side of lowlatency streaming, including small chunk size HLS/DASH, WebRTC, WebSockets, QUIC, SRT, and CMAF:

  • What does ‘Low Latency’ mean? Realtime? Are Cable & TV low-latency?
  • How do you synchronise OTT with Data and TV
  • Where is latency introduced? Which buffers have the biggest impact?
  • How can you fight rebuffing and which metric is the most useful?
  • Pros and Cons of WebRTC
  • How to stream 4K/VR?
  • Plus Q&A

Speakers
Jason Hofmann, VP of Architecture, Limelight Networks
Bill Zurat, VP, Core Media, BAMTECH Media
Chris Allen, CEO and Co-founder, Red5Pro and Red5

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Webinar: DRM – Back to Basics

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Webinar: 15:00 & 20:00 BST 24th May 2018

Watching this webinar, you will learn about selecting and implementing the right premium content protection/DRM.

Content protection is key to a successful content monetisation strategy and with the recent evolution of streaming formats and standards, it is now easier than ever to create DRM-protected streaming systems. The ability to support all of today’s DRMs – including Widevine, Fairplay and PlayReady – in an efficient and easy-to-manage workflow is crucial for operators who want to enable richer feature sets, such as offline viewing and TVE.

Join Irdeto and Bitmovin for a live webinar to explore
+ Common approaches for Digital Rights Management in 2018
+ Changes coming to common workflows with CMAF (click here for primer on CMAF)
+ Real-world implementations of simple and complex systems

Register for the live webinar!

DATE & TIME:
2 sessions on Thursday, May 24

  • first at 4pm Central EU / 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific
  • second at 8pm Central EU / 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific

Webinar: Online Video Formats: 2018 and Beyond

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Webinar: Tue, Mar 27, 2018 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM BST
Sifting through the plethora of online codecs current and upcoming, Jason Thibeault and Thierry Fautier present this webinar from Harmonic and the Streaming Video Alliance

Recently, we have seen renewed attention on HEVC following Apple’s announcement to support the codec on their devices. 6 months later, Apple surprisingly became a founding member of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) as a supporter of the AV1 codec. Yet, while the AOM group claims AV1 provides better performance than HEVC and will be offered royalty-free, there are some academic benchmarks who find AV1 inferior to HEVC on codec quality and performance.
In the meantime, MPEG / ITU-T is working on a next generation video codec, in a group called JVET (Joint Video Exploration Team) that has a mandate to deliver a video compression standard that can reach 50% over HEVC in 2020. Additionally, on the streaming side, we have seen the MPEG CMAF standard getting some traction not only to unify the HLS and DASH worlds, but also to offer the long awaited low latency delay solution for OTT.

This panel will discuss perspectives on these video compression technologies to help content providers, broadcasters, and service providers figure out the best path forward to distribute content over the internet in the coming years.

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