Tag: ABR

Feb032013February 3, 2013June 24, 20210Commentby Nicolas Weil

Player, encoding & repackaging strategies for multiscreen OTT projects

Posted in DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Streaming, Workflow

Last December, I was speaking (in French – did my best for the English subtitles) during a webinar organized by DBee, which topic was “How to address the challenges of #multiscreen diffusion”…


Nov232012November 23, 2012January 18, 20151Commentby Nicolas Weil

OTT Video Services : Trends and Technologies [slide deck]

Posted in DRM, Encoding, OTT, Repackaging, Second-Screen, Streaming, Workflow

This study aims at isolating the main OTT Video Services trends (End-user driven & Production driven) and at pointing out relevant technologies with their maturity estimation and corresponding Vendor + Technology offer tuples.


Aug182011August 18, 2011January 18, 20151Commentby Nicolas Weil

What to see @ IBC 2011 : a selection of products for Streaming Workflows

Posted in DRM, Encoding, Repackaging, Streaming, Workflow

If you got a plane for Amsterdam in September, there’s a chance that it’s not (only) to make you bulldog walking under the red lights : you will probably be undermining your new pair of shoes in the alleys of the RAI, seeking the freshness of streaming video innovations.

Each year the trip is too short – and the feet do hurt – especially if you didn’t carefully select your target booths in advance in order to see the more interesting technology breakthroughs. While making this preparation exercise, I thought that I could share my choices, in order to save your time and shoes a bit, and to hear back your tips as comments. So here are some suggestions of visits to arrange if your job is to build streaming-media-oriented-production-workflows like I do.


Jul202011July 20, 2011January 18, 20154Commentsby Nicolas Weil

Server-Side Stream Repackaging [Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 2]

Posted in Repackaging, Streaming

There are basically two ways to sustain the extensive growth of video formats that you must, as a media distributor, serve to your different target clients’ devices : the most common answer is to choose the best in breed most-powerful encoders to prepare all the target formats during the content preparation time, but you can adopt a different approach saying that you want to prepare your contents once and have the distribution part of the overall workflow take care of the repackaging and protection of the contents on the fly.
This alternative approach means : less files to manage in the main production workflow, less storage, less bandwidth to populate the origin servers, smaller time to contents’ online availability and easier support for new formats – shortly said, an agile path. Potentially a risky one, but quite attractive…