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November 07, 2019

Appear TV: Bringing Flexibility Front-and-Center with SRT

For fifteen years, Appear TV has been providing platforms for professional broadcast video contribution and distribution. Based in Oslo, Norway, the company outsources its hardware manufacturing to focus on its core; the development of flexible platforms for broadcasting and streaming for broadcasters, telcos, operators and other professional video transport buyers. Over two-thirds of the company’s 130 employees are focused on development. In 2014, Appear created its patented X platform to better serve the contribution segment of the value chain. I [...]

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October 16, 2019

Throwing Shade at On-prem Color Matching: Bridge Technologies

It’s not often that marketing eye candy is deeply technical, but when it comes to multi-camera color shading for live sports, waveform vectorscope via browser with a mere frame of latency takes the cake! And that’s exactly what 14,000 attendees at IBC Show saw last month in Hall 1’s corner booth, where Bridge Technologies showed off their exceptionally low latency audio and video monitoring and analytics toolsets. Before the show, I had the pleasure of getting a demo of some of [...]

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October 08, 2019

Tacking the Tough With SRT: Thierry Scozzesi of Cloud Production Platform, Dazzl

Livestreaming on social media is on fire. Whether it’s breaking news, celebrity events or sporting competitions, it’s a robust, game-changing video genre driving tremendous growth. When I spoke with Thierry Scozzesi, CEO and co-founder of cloud production platform, Dazzl, he sized up the market this way: “Only 2% of all sporting events are broadcast on linear TV. Even with all the sports on TV, that’s only 2%. There is so much additional sports streaming coming!” However, live video production is really [...]

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October 01, 2019

A New White Paper: The Race for Cloud Leadership

Video streaming technologies and platforms have changed the media and entertainment industry forever. The lines between television, film, and streaming video are blurring. Cord-cutting and cord-trimming show no signs of slowing down and continue to outpace projections across all age groups. As a result, live and on-demand streaming platforms that bypass traditional distribution are on the rise and, with over 200 services, to choose from in the US alone, competition for viewers is fierce. Just recently, in its Digital [...]

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September 26, 2019

SRT: Under the Hood

At a recent San Francisco Video Technology Meetup, Alex Converse, a video engineer at Twitch, gave a 20-minute presentation about SRT. In his talk, Alex explains why SRT is so interesting (spoiler alert: RTMP is dead) and touches on the origins of the protocol and how it’s gathering a lot of momentum in the industry. He then takes a deep dive into the features and capabilities of SRT and does an amazing job of explaining “what’s under the hood.” Don’t [...]

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September 24, 2019

IBC2019 SRT Recap

It’s safe to say that this year’s IBC was our biggest, busiest and best show to date! With over 70 SRT Alliance members in attendance, all eyes were on SRT during the show. For that, we’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to our amazing members and proud SRT enthusiasts and supporters for being such fantastic ambassadors of SRT and all it represents as an open source initiative. Here are a few highlights shared by Sylvio Jelovcich, VP [...]

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September 12, 2019

What You Need to Know About Interoperability Between RTP and SRT

Many existing on-premise broadcast workflows are based on the RTP protocol, but did you know that SRT can be used to extend the reach of those workflows by tunneling RTP through SRT over unreliable networks such as the public internet? In this post, we’ll take you through a very simple end to end workflow as an example. The following diagram shows how RTP is used to send an MPEG2 transport stream from a video encoder to a video decoder within [...]

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September 10, 2019

LTN Keeps the Hits Coming and Adds SRT to its Hitless Video Network

In music, hitless is bad. In live video transport, so-called “hitless protection” for live event contribution and primary distribution is mission-critical. And it requires a network to deliver video signals across multiple paths while guaranteeing perfect synchronization on the other end without packet loss or delay. Doing that over the public internet in less than 200 milliseconds globally? It’s multi-platinum, to finish the record business analogy. And it’s precisely what LTN’s global network does. Why? How? And what’s next? I had [...]

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September 09, 2019

SRT Alliance Announces SRT Open Source Technical Panel, Interoperability Showcase, and 70 Member Companies Exhibiting at IBC2019

Haivision and Microsoft Host SRT Sunday Featuring Panel Discussions and SRT Open Source Showcase Montreal, Canada – September 9, 2019 – The SRT Alliance, supporting the SRT Open Source Project, announces a record number of exhibits and activities at IBC2019, including more than 70 SRT Alliance members exhibiting, three panel sessions, and an SRT interoperability showcase. SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) is an open source protocol, originally developed by Haivision, which allows broadcasters and streamers to deliver high-quality, low latency streams across [...]

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September 05, 2019

SRT at IBC 2019: What You Need to Know

IBC 2019 is just around the corner. So, what can you expect to see at the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology show for members of the broadcast industry? SRT of course! We’ve put together this handy guide for everything you need to know about SRT at this year’s event. SRT is Everywhere SRT has been taking the broadcast industry by storm ever since it was open sourced over 2 years ago and its presence at IBC has grown from strength to strength. [...]

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