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Mar092026March 9, 2026March 10, 20260Commentby Nicolas Weil

Core technologies for streaming workflows: a 2026 architectural reassessment // Part 1

Posted in AI, Architecture, CDN, Codecs, DRM, Encoding, MoQ, Multicast, Observability, Players, Repackaging, Standards, Streaming, Watermarking, Workflow

Five years have passed since our previous attempt to map the core technologies shaping streaming workflows. How much has the delivery stack actually changed? Has CMAF truly unified HLS and DASH in practice? Have low latency profiles such as LL HLS and L3D matured into reliable deployments? Which observability and control-plane systems have effectively moved into the core streaming infrastructure? Let’s dive in.


Jul032011July 3, 2011October 26, 20216Commentsby Nicolas Weil

Hardware-accelerated Encoding [Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 1]

Posted in Encoding, Streaming

Maybe some of you remember the Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media which came on market in 2005 as a FPGA loaded PCI board. It was a 10K$ investment but it could seriously boost your encoder performances and it was a transparent solution for all encoders integrating Windows Media SDK. That was maybe the only real reliable option to do HD encoding decently at that time. More confidential were the Ambric cards for accelerating MainConcept H.264 and MPEG-2 SDK, which were found to be working with Inlet Armada transcoding farm.

Since these days, Tarari boards vanished, Windows Media encoding has been somehow outshined by H.264 and CPU performances have made great jumps, but the needs for hardware accelerated encoding solutions is still there…