Streaming Media

JW Player Launches a Free Developer Edition to Spur Innovation

Getting back to its open source roots, JW Player offers six-months of free access so developers and engineers can create and explore.

AT&T to Launch Standards-Based 5G Access Later This Week

Select individuals and businesses will get free access for 90 days. After that, they'll need a $500 hotspot and $70/month service.

YouTube Announces Innovation Funding for 87 News Organizations

News organizations in 23 countries will receive funds through the Google News Initiative to grow and experiment with video in news reporting.

Facebook in Talks with HBO, Showtime, Starz to Sell Subs: Report

In what could be a high profile failure for the social network, it's reportedly in talks to sell subscriptions to cable networks to its members.

Elecard Video Quality Estimator: Review

by Jan Ozer | This video analysis tool—VideoQuest for short—offers deeper metrics and is more configurable than others on the market, especially when exploring the differences between two encoded files.

DAZN, Sky to Keynote 2019 Streaming Forum

by Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen | The London event is set for 26 February, and will also offer sessions on AV1, HEVC, ATSC 3.0, latency, and more. Registration is now open.

SMW '18: Tim Siglin Recaps Highlights of Streaming Media West

by Tim Siglin, Steve Nathans-Kelly | Streaming Media's Tim Siglin discusses key topics of Streaming Media West 2018, including microservices, interactive streaming, eSports, MR/AR (but not VR), low latency, and Women in Streaming Media.

SMW '18: nanocosmos' Oliver Lietz Talks Interactive Streaming and H5Live

by Tim Siglin, Steve Nathans-Kelly | Streaming Media's Tim Siglin interviews nanocosmos CEO Oliver Lietz at Streaming Media West 2018.

Up to 40% of Ad Requests Never Reach the Ad Server: Conviva

by Troy Dreier | Publishers have been diligent in uncovering and repairing quality issues in content delivery, and now they need to do the same for ads.

FloSports Operations Technician Jack Lavey discusses the benefits of NDI in sports live production and streaming in this clip from Sports Streaming Summit.

Keemotion's David Bober demos the company's automated, fixed remote-camera system for live sports production and streaming in this clip from Sports Streaming Summit at Streaming Media West 2018.

by Streaming Media Editorial Staff | Making live streaming production remarkably simple even for non-professional users, Magewell's Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder enables them to record or stream high-quality video with one click using on-device buttons or an intuitive, accompanying smartphone app.

by Streaming Media Editorial Staff | Matrox Monarch LCS video encoding appliance makes live webcasting simple, delivering high-quality streams to Facebook Live, YouTube, or a favorite content delivery network (CDN) with multi-camera production value, without operator assistance.

by Ray Adensamer | Many of today's live video encoding solutions require extensive compute resources, limiting the ability of live streaming business models to economically scale. This article will introduce a new real-time video encoding solution, combining the performance of System-on-Chip (SoC) encoding, with innovations from NVMe-based cloud infrastructure, which together provides an economical and high quality solution to deliver encoding at scale for live video streaming.

by Tom Munro | It's no secret that the growing complexity of the global media and entertainment industry has made it harder to deliver content in the traditional way and maintain direct control over rights negotiation, quality levels and delivery formats.