Comments for Video & Dev Breakthroughs http://blog.eltrovemo.com Innovation explorations by Nicolas Weil Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:56:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendezvous for OTT and Hybrid TV // DAY 2 & DEMOS Report by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/1081/ebu-broadthinking-2013-the-state-of-the-art-rendez-vous-for-ott-and-hybrid-tv-day-2-demos-report/#comment-1582 Nicolas Weil Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:56:47 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=1081#comment-1582 At least no GPU optimisation yet, but maybe some hardware acceleration: https://twitter.com/thierryfautier/status/322951341574090752/photo/1

]]> Comment on EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendezvous for OTT and Hybrid TV // DAY 2 & DEMOS Report by JI Feng http://blog.eltrovemo.com/1081/ebu-broadthinking-2013-the-state-of-the-art-rendez-vous-for-ott-and-hybrid-tv-day-2-demos-report/#comment-1578 JI Feng Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:55:10 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=1081#comment-1578 Thanks again for your unselfish wrap-up.
Just one clarification on HEVC demo: a 720p50 2Mbps HEVC encoded tennis match playing beautifully on a Nexus 10 tablet via a Squid Design player (4 hours of autonomy). Prossibly ‘a Squid Design player’ means software decoder NOT hard decoder by Squid Design on Tablet ? Thanks in advance

]]> Comment on EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendezvous for OTT and Hybrid TV // DAY 1 Report by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/1015/ebu-broadthinking-2013-the-state-of-the-art-rendez-vous-for-ott-and-hybrid-day-1-report/#comment-1577 Nicolas Weil Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:38:52 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=1015#comment-1577 Thanks JI !

I’m afraid the presentations will stay under restricted hosting on EBU website, but I’m currently writing the DAY 2 & DEMOS recap which should provide you a summary of the most important facts of this second & crucial day.

I encourage you to register for next year conference and attend it in Geneva, it’s really a very high quality event in an excellent atmosphere !

]]> Comment on EBU BroadThinking 2013 – the state of the art rendezvous for OTT and Hybrid TV // DAY 1 Report by JI Feng http://blog.eltrovemo.com/1015/ebu-broadthinking-2013-the-state-of-the-art-rendez-vous-for-ott-and-hybrid-day-1-report/#comment-1576 JI Feng Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:23:00 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=1015#comment-1576 Excellent Wrap-up! Also a fantastic and fruitful technical blog I’ve found.
p.s. It will be perfect if some presentations are attached for those don’t have the access right from EBU website :-)

]]> Comment on OTT Video Services : Trends and Technologies [slide deck] by Ben Gidley http://blog.eltrovemo.com/924/ott-video-services-trends-and-technologies/#comment-1551 Ben Gidley Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:45:28 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=924#comment-1551 Nice deck and a good summary of the Industry.

I work for Irdeto – and can add a couple of comments

Irdeto don’t just offer ActiveCloak – we offer Video CMS and Workflow, Follow Me Playback, Transcode Management (across different vendors), Closed Captioning/Multilingual, Second Screen (we integrate with ExMachina), Targeted Recommendations (via our partner XRoadMedia who used to be Aprico), Authentication (both TV Everywhere, integrated to clients backend and standalone digital locker), Cloud/Local Task Queuing (for Transcode, Encrypt, Copy, Automated QC etc).

On a few points Multi-lingual is a massive trend for us. Most people are moving to HLS/Smooth Streaming with multiple audio tracks. We implement this using the platform features and our video workflow to prepare the files.

The other big trend were seeing is a move away from focusing of the ‘tech’ to focusing on the consumer experience. The underlying technology for OTT is maturing and the focus is moving toward getting the UX right.

]]> Comment on DIY BROADCAST : How to build your own TV Channel with Open-Source & other goodies by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/364/diy-broadcast-how-to-build-your-own-tv-channel-with-open-source-other-goodies/#comment-1550 Nicolas Weil Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:30:37 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=364#comment-1550 Nice & useful OSS suggestion from Dan Sumption : stb-tester, developed at YouView for automated set-top box testing (http://stb-tester.com)

]]> Comment on Synchronized Second-Screen technologies panorama by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/529/synchronized-second-screen-technologies-panorama/#comment-1549 Nicolas Weil Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:02:41 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=529#comment-1549 A solution provider to look at, Invities offers clients for different devices types and highly scalable socket servers – an interesting toolkit to build second-screen services : http://www.invities.com

]]> Comment on DIY BROADCAST : How to build your own TV Channel with Open-Source & other goodies by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/364/diy-broadcast-how-to-build-your-own-tv-channel-with-open-source-other-goodies/#comment-1220 Nicolas Weil Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:04:31 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=364#comment-1220 Another new interesting option to build your origin server : Mist Server (http://www.mistserver.org). The core server software is open source (including the repackaging features), and you have to purchase the enterprise version to get the DRM support and a 3 years support. At 300$ it’s still a good deal compared to many other commercial products. Their upcoming management tool is pretty interesting also (more to come on this in the next post on this blog), for automating scalability and assuring transparent failover.

]]> Comment on DIY BROADCAST : How to build your own TV Channel with Open-Source & other goodies by Joe Romereo http://blog.eltrovemo.com/364/diy-broadcast-how-to-build-your-own-tv-channel-with-open-source-other-goodies/#comment-781 Joe Romereo Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:38:35 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=364#comment-781 Do any open source monitoring/multiview solutions exist? I’ve tried VLC doing mosaic and also multiple instances but it’s missing audio meters, silence/black detection etc. I’m mostly looking to monitor IP feeds but putting a few Blackmagic quads in a computer could easily work to monitor SDI signals.

]]> Comment on DIY BROADCAST : How to build your own TV Channel with Open-Source & other goodies by Nicolas Weil http://blog.eltrovemo.com/364/diy-broadcast-how-to-build-your-own-tv-channel-with-open-source-other-goodies/#comment-532 Nicolas Weil Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:31:45 +0000 http://blog.eltrovemo.com/?p=364#comment-532 Interesting article regarding the topic of this page : Four reasons why an open-source newsroom is harder than it looks: Lessons from Al Jazeera
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/four-reasons-why-an-open-source-newsroom-is-harder-than-it-looks-lessons-from-al-jazeera/

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