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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: HEVC Vs AV1 and the Future of the Codec Battle

Posted on 14th August 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

In this debate from NAB 2018, the panel discusses the video codecs which are competing to be the next-generation standard in the OTT environment and, notably, HEVC and AV1 being the front-runners. The debate on which video standard is best suited to our industry is in full swing especially as the Alliance for Open Media released AV1 at the NAB Show and Apple is supporting HEVC in its products and has decided to join the Alliance for Open Media as a founding member. This panel discusses the pros and cons of HEVC and AV1, and also put in perspective content-aware encoding techniques with AVC that might be a strong challenger in the short term for OTT distribution.

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Speakers

	Moderator Jan Ozer Principal Doceo Publishing
	Mr Thierry Fautier VP, Video Strategy Harmonic
	Mike Coward Director of Engineering Facebook
	Christopher Mueller CTO BitMovin
	Matt Frost Head of Strategy and Partnerships Google Chrome Media

Webinar: DVB-SIS – What is it?

Posted on 28th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

This webinar provides an overview of the DVB-SIS specification which enables the combination of DVB-T/T2 contribution and DVB-S/S2/S2X distribution in a single satellite beam. The specification is available as DVB BlueBook A175 and will in due course be published as an ETSI Technical Specification.

Agenda

What is SIS and why has this specification been created?
Concept behind DVB-SIS
Elements of DVB-SIS
Practical example applications
Q&A

Presenters

Frank Herrmann, Project Leader, Panasonic Labs
Jean-Pierre Mosset, Software Architect, Harmonic Inc.

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Webinar: Welcome to All IP Media—Understanding Networked Video, File, Management and More

Posted on 11th June 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: June 13th 2018
First Showing: 8 AM PT/11 AM ET/16:00 BST
Second Showing: 9 PM PT/Midnight ET (14th)/05:00 BST (14th)

Now that uncompressed media has arrived for COTS networking infrastructure in the media and entertainment industry we can complete the picture for all IP transport, covering all aspects of the content delivery chain. Marrying hardware and software-based systems to high-performance network infrastructure is critical to making all IP end–to-end video workflows a reality.

Join industry experts from Harmonic and Arista Networks for an in-depth discussion of practical lessons for supporting networked video and file workflows along with management, monitoring and control.

Topics Include:

The impact of uncompressed media over IP on existing IP workflows
The technologies enabling the transport of uncompressed flows
Network topologies and routing for small and large production systems
Use cases, including uncompressed end-to-end studio production and playout, and encoding for broadcast and OTT
The reality of HD over 10Gig

Speakers

Andy Warman
Director, Playout Solutions, Harmonic
Board Member and Marketing Working Group Chair, AIMS

Andy Warman is the Director of playout solutions at Harmonic. He provides business development and strategic direction for Harmonic’s line of playout enabled solutions for cloud and appliances including Spectrum media server, the Polaris automation suite, MediaGrid shared storage solutions and VOS cloud-native media processing. Warman also serves on the board of directors of the Alliance for the IP Media Solutions (AIMS).