Meet THEO at Streaming Media West 2019
by THEOplayer on October 29, 2019
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts will be there, and are looking forward to meeting you soon.
HESP: Comparing Zapping Times
by THEOplayer on September 26, 2019
With the introduction of digital television, zapping between different channels becomes noticeable. Where zapping between channels on an analogue television took only a few milliseconds, switching between digital channels could add up to a few seconds. Zapping times have been improved …
Apple's Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS - what you need to know.
by THEOplayer on June 21, 2019
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we will talk through a few of the exciting new features, and a few that we aren't so sure about yet. If you want to know the basics about HLS, or a previous solution for …
Low Latency HLS - LHLS
by THEOplayer on August 9, 2018
Within our series of articles explaining the needs for, and ways to achieve low latency, we already discussed Chunked CMAF, a very promising technique which is actively being standardised and implemented by the industry at publication of this article. There are however alternatives wh …
Low Latency with Chunked CMAF
by THEOplayer on August 6, 2018
In the first part of this content series we discussed latency: what it is and why it is important, and we gave a general overview of the current industry approaches. As media companies are on a quest to lower their latency to only a few seconds (or even lower), we will dedicate some s …
Customers Vote THEOplayer the Best Video Player
by THEOplayer on November 15, 2016
THEOplayer has been named the Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the 2016 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Awards, leaving behind runners-up Bitmovin Adaptive HTML5 Player and Castlabs DASH Everywhere & Videoplayer SDKs. Based solely on the votes by users, customers and reade …
How CMAF Will Influence The Online Streaming Industry
by THEOplayer on September 22, 2016
Many major online content publishers are using a combination of both HLS and MPEG-DASH to reach their audience across all platforms and devices. Although effective, this also complicates their encoding, DRM and deployment workflow. Apple and Microsoft are looking to ease this burden w …
THEOplayer at IBC Amsterdam 2016
by THEOplayer on July 26, 2016
Deliver world-class viewer experience without plugins. Key features of THEOplayer are: Adaptive playback of MPEG-DASH and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Video-on- Demand, Live and DVR streaming. Cross-platform DRM. UI or fully chromeless depending on specific needs. Managed cloud-hosted o …
Frame-Accurate Clipping in HLS: Share Your Best Moments
by THEOplayer on February 2, 2016
People love watching videos, but sometimes they don't have the time to watch a long video. They are looking for a quick answer from a how-to video, or want to watch the key points from a long presentation. People don't want to spend time finding the interesting bit: they just want to …
Content Protection for HLS with AES-128 Encryption
by THEOplayer on January 21, 2016
With the increase of piracy, protecting media content is one of the key concerns of many publishers. In this article, we will outline the most popular method for content protection with the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol: AES-128 content encryption.