Category: Players

Sep082021September 8, 2021June 2, 20220Commentby Nicolas Weil

Core technologies for streaming workflows, in 2021 and beyond

Posted in CDN, DRM, Encoding, OTT, Players, Repackaging, Standards, Streaming, Workflow

In 2016, CMAF standardization was just beginning, carrying the promise of simplified workflows and improved CDN caching efficiency. Where are we now with this industry change? Which other major streaming technologies emerged at the same time? Which ones will be crucial for the next five years to come? Let’s take a look at it…


Oct282016October 28, 2016August 25, 20210Commentby Nicolas Weil

EBU BroadThinking 2016 – The Year When Broadcasters Became Multidisciplinary Scientists

Posted in Broadcast, Open Source, OTT, Players, Streaming, Workflow

At EBU BroadThinking 2016, we conscientized that producing a modern multiscreen video experience isn’t just about embracing the most mature emerging technologies, year after year, in a smooth granular evolution. Nowadays it actually requires mastering a lot of expertise that are less and less native to broadcasters, all kinds of high-end activities like big data analysis, complex IT/network deployments, fine-grain ABR heuristics mastering, panoramic video, user behavior analysis, security policies enforcement or cloud applications development [and a lot more].


Feb092016February 9, 2016October 3, 20210Commentby Nicolas Weil

Open Media day @ FOSDEM’16

Posted in Broadcast, Frameworks, Open Source, OTT, Players, Repackaging, Streaming, Workflow

For those who don’t know it, FOSDEM is one of the legendary European events of the open source community, where free beer meets lightning talks, tech lectures and hacking sessions. It’s a crowdy 2-days event in Bruxelles, with lots of open source developers having different focuses, from Linux to databases, virtualization, security or programming languages… and of course media!
Let’s take a look at some OTT & workflow oriented projects that were presented during the Open Media devroom program.