Rolling out Roku: How?
by Thijs Lowette on January 26, 2021
"Rolling out Roku: How?" is the second part of a 3-part series. You can read "Rolling out Roku: Why?" here, and "Rolling out Roku with THEOplayer?" here.
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 …
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome
by THEOplayer on August 13, 2018
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1 decode. Although the support is still in early form, AV1 video playback is now possible thanks to AV1 V1.0 being firmed up. Hooray Your Browser Supports AV1 Good new …
New Release: Chromecast support, Thumbnails, Cross-Platform Support Matrix Extended
by THEOplayer on January 7, 2015
We are happy to start the new year with the announcement of a new THEOplayer release with a number of very interesting new features such as support for Chromecast, frame accurate seeking and preview thumbnails. The largest optimisations however are under the hood, with strong reductio …