In-stream thumbnail support for (DVR) DASH streams
by THEOplayer on December 18, 2018
A thumbnail is a reduced size image of a specific frame which helps a viewer to seek to a specific event or scene in a video. Typically, thumbnails are added to a stream using a separate (WebVTT) file which contains pre-rendered images. While this approach works fine for static VOD co …
Bye Bye Betamax, hello THEOplayer
by THEOplayer on November 30, 2015
A week or two ago, Sony announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. Amazing news! I did not know that Sony still produced Betamax cassettes. Someone on the radio said that Sony actually already stopped producing these, but there were still a lot of casse …
Case Study: The National Assembly of Wales
by THEOplayer on October 29, 2015
The National Assembly of Wales engages Vualto, THEOplayer (THEO Technologies) and Unified Streaming for their new online video microsite in a joint venture partnership. Plenary meetings and committees are now streamed live across PC, Mac and mobile devices, and are subsequently availa …
New Release: Windows Phone support, AES-128, DVR, Advertisements and Closed Captions
by THEOplayer on September 5, 2014
A new version of THEOplayer has been released, bringing support for HLS to Windows Phone, but also adding support for content protection using AES-128 and WebVTT subtitles and closed captions. Furthermore, support for advertising using the VAST protocol has been added.