With numerous advantages, AV1 is now supported on about 60% of devices and all major web browsers. To accelerate its adoption – Beamr has introduced an easy, automated upgrade to the codec that is in the forefront of today’s video technology Four years ago we explored the different video codecs, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, […]
This year at IBC 2024 in Amsterdam, we are excited to demonstrate Live 4K p60 optimized streaming with our Content-Adaptive Bitrate (CABR) technology on NVIDIA Holoscan for Media, a software-defined, AI-enabled platform that allows live video pipelines to run on the same infrastructure as AI. Using the CABR GStreamer plugin, premiered at the NAB Show […]
Now available: Hardware accelerated, unsupervised, codec modernization to AV1 for increased efficiency video AI workflows AV1, the new kid on the block of video encoders, is definitely starting to gain traction due to its high compression efficiency and increasing adoption on browsers and end devices. As we mentioned in our previous blog, H/W accelerated AV1 […]
Beamr’s Content Adaptive Bit Rate solution enables significantly decreasing video file size or bitrates without changing the video resolution or compromising perceptual quality. Since the optimized file is fully standard compliant, it can be used in your workflow seamlessly, whatever your use case, be it video streaming, playback or even part of an AI workflow. Beamr […]
This year at the NAB Show 2024 in Las Vegas, we are excited to demonstrate our Content-Adaptive Bitrate (CABR) technology on the NVIDIA Holoscan for Media platform. By implementing CABR as a GStreamer plugin, we have, for the first time, made bitrate optimization of live video streams easily achievable in the cloud or premise. Building […]
When it comes to comparing video codecs, it’s easy to get caught up in the “codec war” mentality. If analyzing and purchasing codecs was as easy as comparing fuel economy in cars, it would undoubtedly take a lot of friction out of codec comparison, but the reality is that it’s not that simple. In Episode […]
The Video Insiders host’s Mark Donnigan & Dror Gill discuss Hollywood endings and story line arcs as they consider the state of HEVC & AV1.
In case you missed it, Apple just snuck a little surprise into the first few days of 2018 in the form of their name appearing on the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) website as a Founding Member. As an ardent HEVC supporter, some may be shocked at this move by Apple. Blog post detailing Apple’s […]