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Video – Live Streaming with VP9 at Twitch TV

Posted on 14th December 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Tarek Amara from Twitch explains their move from a single codec (H.264) to multiple codecs in order to provide viewers an optimal viewing experience.

In this session, Tarek shares findings on VP9’s suitability for live streaming and the technical and industrial challenges such move involves. Covering:

VP9 encoding performance,
Device and player support,
Bandwidth savings,
The role of FPGAs
plus an overview of how the transcoding platform need to change to enable VP9 encoding and delivery at scale.

This presentation is from the Video Engineering Summit at Streaming Media West 2018.

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Speaker

Tarek Amara
Senior Video Specialist,
Twitch TV/Amazon

Video: Next-Generation Video Compression Techniques

Posted on 16th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Thierry Fautier, speaking at SMPTE 2017, explains the planned advances in Codecs for the next 5 years explaining the new techniques and likely future abilities of the different codecs. Based on his technical paper, Thierry explains efforts to ‘boost’ HEVC and, in the future JVET which complements his comprehensive look across VP9, HEVC, AVC, JVET and AV1.

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Speaker

Thierry Fautier
President-Chair at Ultra HD Forum & VP Video Strategy Harmonic

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: x265 – An Update

Posted on 4th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

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: