Recent Articles
Choosing an Enterprise Encoder
- May 22, 2013
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Today (May 22, 2013), I presented a session at Streaming Media East in Manhattan on Choosing an Enterprise Encoder. Click over to the main article to download the presentation materials.
How to: Encoding for iDevices
- May 21, 2013
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I presented on this topic this morning (May 21, 2013) at Streaming Media East in Manhattan. Here's the summary:
This session starts by detailing the playback specs for all iDevices, old and new. Then you'll learn the strategies used by prominent iTunes publishers to serve the complete range of installed iDevices. Next, the seminar switches to cellular wireless delivery, with a technical description of Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), including recommendations for the number of streams and Apple's encoding parameters. You'll walk away knowing how to encode for both iTunes and mobile delivery to iOS and compatible devices.
Click over to the main article to download the presentation.
Download handout for Encoding for Multiple Screen Delivery
- May 19, 2013
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Tomorrow I host a seminar at Streaming Media East entitled Encoding for Multiscreen Delivery. Click over to the article to read a description and download the handout.
Jan Ozer: Opening Act, NAB 2013
- April 6, 2013
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I was the opening act for NAB 2013, speaking at at 8:00 AM on Saturday morning for the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The talk was on Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery and a surprisingly enthusiastic group of around 300+ broadcast engineers showed up despite the hour (you can download the handout below). Not to boast, but I'll share a post-talk email from John Poray, the Executive Director of the SBE, who stated, "Our thanks to you! You provided a great opening for our programming. Tough to get people out at 8 am on a Saturday in LV but you garnered the largest opening crowd we’ve had since we started doing this in 1995."
Click over the main article to download the handout.
From Russia With Love
- March 5, 2013
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In March, I visited Moscow to speak at the Connected TV Forum. You can read about the trip and download the handouts by clicking over to the main article.
What Is HEVC (H.265)?
- February 14, 2013
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H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the successor codec to H.264, which, like H.264, is jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is 50 percent better compression efficiency than H.264 and support for resolutions up to 8192x4320.
A Buyer's Guide to Portable Encoders
- December 22, 2012
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Live event streaming while on the road requires an encoder that's as powerful as it is portable. In this Buyer's Guide, I'll detail the categories to consider when buying a portable encoder, along with factors to consider to help identify the best product for your needs. Specially, I'll discuss software encoders, portable hardware encoders, and on-camera encoders, though exclusively for Ethernet or Wi-Fi transmission, as cellular models are covered in another Buyer's Guide.
A Buyer's Guide to Cloud Transcoding
- December 22, 2012
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Is 2013 the year of encoding in the cloud? Actually, it might be, at least for live transcoding in the cloud, and even on-demand transcoding should see significant migration to cloud facilities.
A Buyer's Guide to Live Encoders
- December 22, 2012
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Choosing a live streaming encoding tool used to be simple: You typically would encode a single stream for delivery to your desktop viewers, and budget was the most important buying criteria. When buying today, of course, you've almost certainly expanded your target viewers to include both mobile and desktop clients, with adaptive streaming preferred over single file delivery.
Encoding for Multiple Devices
- December 22, 2012
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Many streaming producers are increasing the number of mobile and over-the-top (OTT) platforms that they support while implementing adaptive streaming to enhance the viewing experience on each. There are two ways to accomplish this: produce a unique set of streams for each target, or derive one smaller group of files that will effectively serve all platforms. In this How-To article, I'll explore the latter approach.
Recent Blogs
When Will the HEVC Royalty Picture Clear Up: Apparently No Time Soon
- May 23, 2013
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Google Starts Pushing VP9; Caution Advised
- May 21, 2013
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VP9 Takes One Step Forward and One Big Step Back
- May 14, 2013
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Ozer Book tapped for GMU Engineering Course
- May 8, 2013
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The Adobe Creative Suite is Dead
- May 6, 2013
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