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Video: The Role of Metadata in Content Discovery; Improving the User Experience and Reducing Churn

Posted on 26th February 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Rainy days increase viewing of horror movies, discovers Arash Pendari, CEO and Founder of Vionlabs. How can we market better to people? Using machine learning and advanced analytics, Arash talks about the role of metadata in content discovery ensuring that viewers are not pigeonholed and recommendation engines provide suggestions with depth.

This presentation is from Streaming Tech Sweden 2017, the tech-conference for the Streaming Tech Community. With a dedicated focus on the technology for video streaming, this is the meeting place to be educated and inspired by experts in this area, network with the community and bring home new thoughts and ideas. With a no-sponsors policy STSWE can independently choose the topics and speakers we and the community find most important and relevant.

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Webinar: How to build your own CDN – SVT

Posted on 14th February 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Fredrik Widlund shares Swedish Television’s (SVT) experience building their own CDN in house.
Fredrik explains the rationale in building their own CDN and the experience they gained from doing it. Quality
Includes a Q&A which took pleace at Streaming Tech Sweden 2017, a tech-conference for the Streaming Tech Community. Streaming Tech Sweden has a no-sponsors policy to allow them to independently choose the topics and speakers they and the community find most important and relevant.

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Video: HOW TO: Building a More Robust Cloud Encoder With FFMPEG & More

Posted on 6th February 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

A great ffmpeg how-to from Jan Ozer followed by cloud deployment advice from RealEyes Media.

Starting from some of the basics of the ffmpeg command line, working up to HLS packaging, Jan Ozer offers advanced alternatives along side the familiar commands.
By taking control of your own encoding and packaging, you can greatly reduce cost and maintain high adaptability and agility to meet your needs now and in the future. When working with cloud encoding, there are several transcoding and packaging options, and the APIs for these options will change over time. David Hassoun and Jun Heider, from RealEyes Mediatalk talk about how to build a more dynamic cloud encoder that can use the best tool for a specific job by decoupling the tools from the core application, as well as how to mix and match multiple operations concurrently on a single encoding task. Operations include WebVTT and AAC sidecar manifests, DASH assets, metadata, video quality, and stream muxing/demuxing. This session covers some of the strategies we’ve used to handle dynamic cloud encoding and packaging for live and VOD delivery.

This is talk from Streaming Media West 2017

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Webinar: State of the Broadcast Industry 2018 – Ooyala

Posted on 5th February 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Webinar: February 6, 2018, 18:00 GMT | 10AM PST
Ooyala’s Paula Minardi, Head of Content Strategy and Jim O’Neill, Principal Analyst and Strategic Media Consultant, take us through Ooyala’s 2018 State of the Broadcast Industry report highlighting: