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Video Codecs in 2024: The Race Continues with AV1 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 […]

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 […]

Beamr teams with NVIDIA to accelerate Beamr technology on NVIDIA GPUs

2023 is a very exciting year for Beamr. In February Beamr became a public company on NASDAQ:BMR on the premise of making our video optimization technology globally available as a SaaS. This month we are already announcing a second milestone for 2023: Release of the Nvidia driver that enables running our technology on the Nvidia […]

Adding Beamr’s Frame-Level Content-Adaptive Rate Control to the AV1 Encoder

In this post we present the results of integrating CABR’s content-adaptive rate control with the libaom AV1 encoder. CABR can reduce AV1 bitrates by a further 25-40% without compromising perceptual quality.

Video Codecs in 2020 – The Race is On!

Introduction There are several different video codecs available today for video streaming applications, and more will be released this year. This creates some confusion for video services who need to select their codec of choice for delivering content to their users at the best quality and lowest bitrate, also taking into account the encode compute […]