The Video Codec Race to 2025: How AV1 is Driving New Possibilities

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, […]

Live 4Kp60 Optimized Encoding with Beamr CABR and NVIDIA Holoscan for Media

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 […]

The Video Codec Race to 2025: How AV1 is Driving New Possibilities

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, […]

Using Beamr Cloud Optimized AV1 Encodes for Machine Learning Tasks

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 Now Offering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customers 30% Faster Video Optimization

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 […]

Real-time Video Optimization with Beamr CABR and NVIDIA Holoscan for Media

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 […]

Beamr Tech boosts Video Machine Learning: Taking a look at training

Introduction Machine learning for Video is an expanding field, garnering vast interest, with generative AI for video picking up speed. However there are significant pain points for these technologies such as storage and bandwidth bottlenecks when dealing with video content, as well as training and inferencing speeds. In the following case study, we show that […]

Beamr Cloud is live!

High Quality, High Scale, Low Cost video processing – Beamr Cloud is bringing technology that used to be exclusive to tech giants like Google and Meta – to everyone. Here’s all you need to know about Beamr Cloud Video rules the world Video is the most dominant digital content type today. From high-res smartphones to […]

Beamr CABR Poised to Boost Vision AI

By reducing video size but not perceptual quality, Beamr’s Content Adaptive Bit Rate optimized encoding can make video used for vision AI easier to handle thus reducing workflow complexity

Automatically upgrade your video content to a new and improved codec

Easy & Safe Codec Modernization with Beamr using Nvidia GPUs  Following a decade where AVC/H.264 was the clear ruler of the video encoding world, the last years have seen many video coding options battling to conquer the video arena. For some insights on the race between modern coding standards you can check out our corresponding […]