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Video: Designing User Experiences for VR

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


José Somolinos from Accedo.TV gives a great overview of the state of VR. Speaking at Streaming Tech Sweden, José covers:

  • How can you mix 16:9 footage with a VR experience?
  • What about 360º video which is often synonymous with 360.
  • What is Google’s VR180?
  • What are the many ways of saving bandwidth by mapping video?

Finishing with Holographic video and a Q&A, this really helps understand where VR can fit in today’s broadcast & media market place.

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José is Senior UX Product Manager at Accedo.TV.
Streaming Tech Sweden is an independent, sponsor-free conference run by Eyevinn Technology.

Video: Live Streaming Experiences using Server-Side Ad Insertion

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Experiences and insights using Server Side Ad Insertion in TV4 Play for both VOD and Live in this talk at Streaming Tech Sweden given by Marcus Lindén, Head of Development and Integration, Bonnier Broadcasting.

Marcus demonstrates a live channel with static ads in a linear broadcast and with personalised ads in the live OTT stream and shows us how ad insertion as moved in the last 10 years from client side to server side and the benefits therein.

Marcus finishes by taking us through the timeline of the project, the development of the business plan and the thinking behind it.

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Video: Low-Latency Live OTT Streaming CMAF and the alternatives

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Will Law, shows we can get close to traditional live broadcast latency even over OTT. Summarising the typical latency and capability of the various streaming protocols, Will introduces CMAF and explains why this is destined to significantly reduce steaming latency.

Will’s enthusiastic and detailed explanations and the slides are a great reference to understand the pros and cons of HLS, Smoothstreaming, RTMP, WebRTC etc. even without the CMAF introduction which is a great primer for the future.

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Video: Codec News – Status of HEVC

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Jonatan Samuelsson, CEO of Divideon gives a short history of HEVC, it’s status and looks beyond HEVC including a teaser of his own technology, XVC. A great follow on from JanOzer’s codecs update talk and the AV1 update from the Alliance of Open Media all at Streaming Tech Sweden at the end of last year.

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