Tag: production tools

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.


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.