VoD

Video: How the BBC Built a Massive Media Pipeline Using Microservices

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

The BBC iPlayer is the biggest audio and video-on-demand service in the UK. It receives 10 million video playback requests every day and the service publishes over 10,000 hours of media every week.

Moving iPlayer to the cloud has enabled the BBC to shorten the time-to-market of content from 10 hours to 15 minutes.

In this session, the BBC’s lead architect, Stephen Godwin, describes the approach behind creating iPlayer architecture, which uses Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS in several ways to improve elasticity, reliability, and maintainability. You see how BBC uses AWS messaging to choreograph the 200 microservices in the iPlayer pipeline, maintain data consistency as media traverses the pipeline, and refresh caches to ensure timely delivery of media to users.

This is a rare opportunity to see the internal workings and best practices of one of the largest on-demand content delivery systems operating today.
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Video: Frame-Accurate Functionality for Live-to-VOD workflows

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Experts from Amazon Web Services and AWS Elemental highlight requirements to create a frame accurate live-to-VOD workflow with image recognition using AWS Elemental Delta and AWS cloud services. CTOs, engineering managers, product and program managers receive knowledge that can be applied to their own video workflows.

Recorded last year, this webinar is led by

  • Lionel Bringuier, Director, Product Management – Video Delivery Solutions, AWS Elemental

With speakers

  • Shawn Przybilla, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
  • Leah Siddall, Technical Marketing Engineer, AWS Elemental

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Webinar: AWS Innovate 2018 Online Conference

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Tomorrow, Thursday 19th 2018, 11:00-15:00 BST

At AWS Innovate Online Conference hear the very latest from Dr Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com and Craig Stires, Head of Big Data and Analytics, AWS, APAC then dive deep into any of the 50+ business and technical sessions across ten tracks delivered by AWS experts. This free online conference is designed to inspire and educate you about AWS services and help you develop the skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.

Featuring multiple tracks including a ‘Step by Step Guide to Building your Own Video On-Demand Architecture’. This promises to be a really useful intro/refresher in cloud technology.

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Webinar: Winning the Battle for OTT Audiences

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Date: 28th July 2018, 16:00 BST

This webinar brings examples from Leading OTT operators and providers describing how they drive audience growth through quality and user experience. Of course, great content alone is not enough to sustain a successful on-demand internet-delivered OTT service.

The speakers will reveal the risk factors that can destroy audience engagement, including poor streaming performance and data privacy and security fears and as OTT becomes inseparable from live broadcast, solutions for streaming time-sensitive, high-value live events and sports are assessed.

Whether it’s broadcaster catch-up, special-interest content or producers like HBO and Disney going direct, the pressure is on for platforms trying to compete with the big beasts Netflix and Amazon. With the announcement of Salto as a joint venture of broadcasters in France, and UK channels investing in updating Freeview Play, OTT is centre-stage once again.

Audiences have huge expectations of user experience, video image and quality-of-service – regardless of the network or device they are using. Delivering and managing a consistently-high quality of experience is crucial for media companies wanting to deliver a popular, engaging and profitable OTT service – whatever the content and business model.

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Speakers:
Guilherme Saraiva, CTO, Rede Telecine
Steve Miller-Jones, Senior Director of Product Management, Limelight Networks