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October 2026
- Is HEVC Worth the Royalties? We Tested x265 Against a Tuned x264 to Find Out
- When Will AV2 and VVC Be Worth Deploying?
September 2026
- Why CDN77 Chose NETINT Quadra for Large-Scale Live Transcoding
- Optimizing x264 Settings and Per-title ladders
- Media over QUIC (MoQ), What It Takes to Deploy It, and When It Matters (From CDN77)
- VVC On The Rise
- Munich FRAND Royalty Guidelines: More Questions than Answers
- Bitmovin Releases 10th Edition of the Video Developer Report
August 2026
- Munich Court Proposes €1.05 Monthly Codec Royalty for Netflix Premium Subscribers
- Microsoft MLVC: Interoperability, Power Realities, and the Neural Compression Patent Landscape
July 2026
- Codecs for CFOs
- Wowza’s New Video Intelligence Framework – Interviews
- SBE Portfolio: Measuring BD-Rate and Break-Even Across a Full Library
- Cutting CDN Costs: A Conversation with CDN77
June 2026
- The Correct Way to Choose an x264 Preset, Part 2: Your Audience Changes the Answer
- Computing VMAF: How Missing Color Metadata Tanked the Score
- How Fast Will AV2 Deploy?: Ask Joe Sixpack
May 2026
- Three Paths to Compression for Machine Vision: VCM, FCM, and the V-Nova Wild Card
- What Is Media over QUIC (MoQ) and Why It Matters for Real-Time Streaming
- Comparing H.264, HEVC, VP9, and AV1 in SBE: From BD-Rate to Contextual ROI
- Emerging Markets for Video and Video Codecs
April 2026
- All Encoding Decisions Are Economic Decisions. It’s Time to Start Treating Them Accordingly
- SLC Bitrate Explorer: Encode Verification for Professionals
- Access Advance vs. Avanci Video: How the Streaming Programs Calculate Royalties
March 2026
- CMSD-MQA: Carrying Quality Scores Through the Live Streaming Chain
- When There’s No FRAND: What Dolby’s Suit Against Snap Means for the Industry
- Broadpeak Debuts “Best of Both Worlds” Multi-Package Multiview
- The Next Big Feature in Live Streaming: VMAF-Driven Bitrate Control
February 2026
- Contextual Targeting’s Second Act: Past, Present, and Future
- Capped CRF in a Multi-Codec World: FFmpeg and NVIDIA Implementations
- David Ronca Details VCAT Beta 4.0 with VVC Decode
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Estimated Bandwidth Savings
- My Three Take Evolution in Vibe Coding
January 2026
- Per‑Title Before New Codecs: Fixing Your H.264 Baseline
- Beyond H.264. Why Codec Choices Now Carry Legal and Financial Risk
- Netflix’s Masterclass: Engineering Live Streaming at Scale
December 2025
- What the Access Advance / Via LA Deal Doesn’t Change About Codec Adoption
- What I Learned About Deploying AV1 from Two Deployers
- Deep Render and the Streaming Learning Center: A Sustained Visibility and Validation Campaign
November 2025
- When Metrics Don’t Mislead: Why VMAF Still Works for Neural Codecs—Sometimes
- InterDigital’s Deep Render Bet: AI-Native Codec or Strategic IP Hedge?
October 2025
- Inside AV2: Architecture, Performance, and Adoption Outlook
- Feature Coding for Machines: Optimizing Video for Machine-Driven Operations
September 2025
- New Interview: Dominic Sunnebo on how Sports Programming Drives Subscriber Growth
- The Business Models Powering Modern Streaming
- Rethinking Multiview Economics: When Server-Side Beats Client-Side
- The Future of Multiview: Client, Server, and Build Your Own (BYOMV)
August 2025
- Building the Future of Multiview: Skreens CEO Marc Todd on Tessera and BYOMV
- Monetizing Multiview
- Practical Troubleshooting with Elecard: From Quality Loss to Ad Insertion
- What Is the Market for the Second-Best Sports Experience?
- VVC Gains Momentum with Amazon and Dolby Acquisitions
- Chick-fil-A’s Play App: A Family-Focused Strategy with a Strategic Edge
- AI Dubbing: An Untapped Opportunity for Global Growth
- Where Ad Dollars Quietly Break: Beyond the Obvious in Streaming Monetization
- David Ronca Unveils VCAT: An Open Benchmarking Tool for Android Playback
July 2025
- AI Scraping and Publisher Revenue: The Great Content Robbery
- Netflix’s Live Platform: What Streaming Engineers Can Learn — and What They Can’t
- Ozer Launches New Course Entitled Streaming Monetization 101
- Real-Time Feature Coding for Machines: Inside the New MPEG Standard
- AI Video Compression Standards: Who’s Doing What and When
June 2025
- Tuning Up Your H.264 and HEVC Streams
- First-Party Data: The “Panacea” for a Cookie-less World? Is Consent Its Achilles’ Heel?
May 2025
- Deep Render AI Codec in Action: FFmpeg Encoding and VLC Playback Demo
- AV1 vs. VVC Mobile Playback: A Quick and Dirty Test
- When Metrics Mislead: Evaluating AI-Based Video Codecs Beyond VMAF
- Deep Render: An AI Codec That Encodes in FFmpeg, Plays in VLC, and Outperforms SVT-AV1
- x265 and WPP: What’s Fast Isn’t Always Efficient
- Evaluating DCVC-RT: A Real-Time Neural Video Codec That Delivers on Speed and Compression
April 2025
- Google’s Cookie Reversal: While Advertisers Rejoice, Legal Trouble Lurks in the Weeds
- HEVC Licensing: Misunderstood, Maligned, and Surprisingly Successful
- Adobe Updates Premiere Pro for NAB 2025
- TV 3.0 and LCEVC: From Standards Win to Real-World Stakes
March 2025
- Amazon Takes a License From Nokia: A Milestone for Content-Side Codec Royalties
- Netflix’s HDR10+ AV1: Finally Matching HEVC for Premium Content Delivery
- Mile High Video 2025: Industry Leaders Discuss VVC Adoption Challenges and Opportunities
- Why Broadcasters Are Turning to Server-Side Multi-View Solutions
- How AdCurate Helps Publishers Improve Ad Quality and Boost Revenue
- How Witbe Measured Super Bowl Streaming Performance — Insights on Latency, QoE, and 4K Quality
- Review of Multi-Resolution Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming using VVenC
- The Codec Conundrum: Navigating the Challenges of Video Codec Adoption
- Sandwiched Compression: Repurposing Standard Codecs with Neural Network Wrappers
February 2025
- Bitmovin Video Developer Report Reveals Streaming in 2025: Incremental Growth Over Innovation
- Will Law on Akamai’s Media Delivery and Edge Computing at Mile High Video 2025
- Ateme’s Mickaël Raulet Talks AI Codecs and OTT Contribution at Mile High Video 2025
- Katerina Dobnerova from CDN77 On How to Choose a CDN in 2025
- V-Nova’s Guido Meardi on LCEVC and More at Mile High Video 2025
- Exploring Media Tech Innovation with JP Saibene from Qualabs at Mile High Video 2025
- Romain Bouqueau on GPAC, Low-Latency Streaming, and AI at Mile High Video 2025
- Bitmovin’s Igor Oreper at Mile High Video 2025 Talks New Web Player
- Jan De Cock of Synamedia at Mile High Video 2025
- Interview with Andrew Frost of MulticoreWare at Mile High Video 2025
- Interview with Thierry Fautier at Mile High Video 2025
- Ultra-Low Latency Video Control – An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Kempf of Kyber
- Mile High Video 2025: Adeia Talks Tiling and L4S Innovations
- Super Resolution and Content Adaptive Encoding: A Conversation with Sharon Carmel, CEO of Beamr
- Deep Render AI Codec Running in FFmpeg and VLC
- Tesla Rolls Back YouTube from AV1 to VP9 to Improve QoE—Another in a Series of Cautionary Tales
- Deep Render AI Codec: Faster, Smarter, and Ready for Prime Time?
- Unlocking CTV’s Full Ad Potential with Server-Guided Ad Insertion
- Evaluating DeepMind C3: A Low-Complexity Neural Codec with Competitive Compression Efficiency
- H.267: A Codec for the Future—or a Standard Waiting to Be Obsolete?
- Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Learned Image Compression
January 2025
- Following the Money: What the Lexis Nexis Patent Report Reveals About VVC and AOMedia
- New Lesson Alert: Choosing a Hardware Transcoder Added to Streaming Media 101
- Fox’s 1080p to 4K Upscaling Workflow for Super Bowl 2025: An Engaging Debate
- Sye: The Best Low-Latency Tech You’ve Never Heard Of
- The Future of Targeted Ads: Lessons from Disney’s Ad Tech Evolution
- The New Face of FAST: How Original Content Is Redefining Free Streaming
- Cracking the Code(c): It’s All About the Implementation
- CSAI vs SSAI in Video Ad Insertion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recommendations
- VMAF, SSIM, and Color Spaces: Getting the Metrics Right
December 2024
- DCVC-B: A New Deep Learning Codec for Efficient B-Frame Compression
- M3-CVC: A Glimpse into the Future of AI-Driven Video Compression
- Comparing Fixed GOPs to Variable GOPs with I-Frames at Scene Changes
- Real-World Perspectives on Choosing the Optimal GOP Size
- Three Things to Know About 2-Pass x265 Encoding
- What’s the Best Setting for x265 Two-Pass Encoding?
November 2024
- How Thread Count Impacts Video Encoding Quality, Throughput, and Cost
- Mac Video Apps for Streaming Professionals
- Announcing Free Course on Controlling the AMD MA35D with FFmpeg
- Choosing the Best Preset for Live Transcoding
October 2024
- Edit Cloud: A New Approach to Collaborative Cloud Editing
- There are no codec comparisons. There are only codec implementation comparisons.
- Seedtag: Harnessing AI for Contextual Audience Targeting
- Why That Amazon Product Follows You Everywhere: A Look at Behavioral Tracking
- Call for Contributions| ACM Mile-High Video 2025
September 2024
- Synamedia’s Senza: Cloud TV platform aims to disrupt content delivery
- How GPAC Technology is Shaping the Future of Streaming: Key Insights from Fred Dawson
August 2024
- Working with Elgato Prompter
- The Reality of Codec Adoption in Six Pictures
- New Lessons on Streaming Monetization Added to Streaming Media 101
July 2024
- Video Ad Standards: VAST, VMAP, VPAID, and Beyond
- Meet Open Source Video Downloader YT-DLP
- Exploring JPEG AI with Dr. Elena Alshina
- Streaming Summer Bootcamp Session 2: Producing H.264
June 2024
- Simplify Your Workflow: Command-Line Variables in FFmpeg Batch Files
- Navigating Rate Shaping and Zero Rating: Key Takeaways from Qwilt’s Findings
- LinkedIn Live: How to Nail for Your First Event
- SMNYC 2024: Streaming Learning Center’s Jan Ozer Talks AI, Codecs, and Patent Pools
- JPEG AI Is Coming: What You Need to Know
May 2024
- Free Course On LCEVC Video-Enhancement
- From SEO to AI Overviews for Content Marketers
- Solveig Offers Free Tier for Zond 265 File Analysis Tool
- What is MV-HEVC
- Deep Thoughts on AI Codecs and Encoders
- Beyond the Hype: A Critical Look at AI in Video Streaming
- New Lesson: AI in Video Encoding, Production, and Customer Experiences
- Codec Update for Streaming Media 101 Course
April 2024
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