The VP9 Breakthrough: VP9 Support Now Possible on Apple Devices and All Major Platforms
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on April 19, 2023
Over the past week, during my early mornings at NAB, I’ve been exploring the potential of running the VP9 codec on all platforms. Despite my sleep-deprived, jet-lagged state, I’ve discovered some exciting news: it's now possible to use VP9 everywhere, making it possible to thank H.264 …
Operating HESP with low encoding costs
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on October 6, 2021
The High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) comes with a lot of advantages. It allows for sub second latency over standard HTTP CDNs (and the cost to scale benefit they bring), with unrivalled channel change times. The high QoE HESP delivers is the result of it’s main difference wit …
Workaround for the Safari Fairplay regression in iOS and iPadOS 15
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on October 4, 2021
What is the problem? As some of you are likely aware of, a regression was introduced in the iOS & iPadOS 15 versions. The issue has an impact upon playback of Fairplay protected streams in Safari. As a result, all video players (including Apple’s own playback support) which attemp …
Going Big Screen: Bringing Video to Samsung Tizen
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on May 11, 2021
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on desktop devices, but today that is not the case. Today, video streaming is conquering the big screen (Smart TVs).
Going Big Screen: Key Considerations When Reaching Samsung Tizen
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on May 5, 2021
Listen to this blog: Your browser does not support the audio element. In the previous blog posts, we’ve covered how to bring your applications to Samsung Tizen, discussed how to leverage Samsung Tizen's native playback component, AVPlay, as well as its use case limitations, delved dee …
Going Big Screen: How To Use Your Own Player on Samsung Tizen?
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on May 3, 2021
Listen to this blog: Your browser does not support the audio element. In the previous blog posts, we’ve covered how to bring your applications to Samsung Tizen, discussed how to leverage Samsung Tizen's native playback component, AVPlay, as well as its use case limitations, and delved …
Going Big Screen: Exhaustive List of Samsung Tizen's AVPlay Limitations
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on April 28, 2021
Listen to this blog: Your browser does not support the audio element. In the previous blog posts, we’ve covered how to bring your applications to Samsung Tizen and discussed how to leverage Samsung Tizen's native playback component, AVPlay, as well as its use case limitations. In this …
Going Big Screen: How To Use Samsung Tizen's AVPlay?
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on April 26, 2021
Listen to this blog: Your browser does not support the audio element. In the previous blog post, we’ve covered how to best bring your applications to Samsung Tizen and touched on the two approaches we have in delivering audio and video content to Samsung Tizen. In this blog, we will d …
Going Big Screen: How to Best Bring Your Application to Samsung Tizen?
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on April 19, 2021
Listen to this blog: Your browser does not support the audio element. As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on desktop devices, but today that is not the case. Today, video streaming is conquering the big screen …
Comparing WebRTC with HTTP-based streaming
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on March 25, 2021
Reducing streaming latency has been a hot topic for a while. Historically with HTTP based streaming, latencies of tens of seconds and even in the order of one minute is not unheard of. With traditional broadcast being in the realm of single digit seconds and new techniques such as Web …