Why Game of Thrones is pushing video encoder capabilities to the edge
Game of Thrones entered its eighth and final season on April 14th, 2019. Though Game of Thrones has been a cultural phenomenon since the…
HEVC Bitrate Efficiency
Today, video streaming services must offer solutions that can evolve as the demand for content availability across a wide range of devices…
MPEG Through the Eyes of Its Chairman [podcast]
In “E08: MPEG Through the Eyes of Its Chairman,” The Video Insiders had the honor of sitting down with, Leonardo Chiariglione, the…
Microservices – Good on a Bad Day [podcast]
Live streaming is arguably the least forgiving industry in today’s market. Anyone involved with live streaming workflows understands the…
In the battle between open source & proprietary technology, does video win? [podcast]
Video engineers dedicated to engineering encoding technologies are highly skilled and hyper-focused on developing the foundation for future…
2018, the Year HEVC Took Flight. [podcast]
By now, most of us have seen the data and know that online video consumption is soaring at a rate that is historically unrivaled. …
The Future of 3 Character Codecs. [podcast]
Anyone familiar with the streaming video industry knows that we love our acronyms. You would be hard-pressed to have a conversation about the…
Codec Efficiency is in the Eye of the Measurer. [podcast]
When it comes to comparing video codecs, it’s easy to get caught up in the “codec war” mentality. If analyzing and…
Will the Story End a Tragedy or Triumph? [podcast]
The Video Insiders host's Mark Donnigan & Dror Gill discuss Hollywood endings and story line arcs as they consider the state of HEVC & AV1.
Why Beamr Developed a Transcoder
Update 4/4/18: Since the original publishing of this post, we’ve built a product page for the Beamr Transcoder VOD which may be viewed…