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January 30, 2020

Glass-to-Glass Delivery with SRT: The Softvelum Way

Until Haivision brought the SRT video streaming protocol open-source in 2017, reliable delivery over UDP was only available through proprietary, or royalty-free solutions. Since then, the technology has been rapidly adopted by industry leaders, many of which are now members of the SRT Alliance. One of the results of SRT’s surge in popularity has been that the protocol is being used in lieu of traditional protocols in many use cases. In some of these cases, SRT can replace these protocols [...]

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December 18, 2019

SRT Alliance founding member announces new SRT protocol player – Haivision Play Pro

During this festive time of year, thoughts turn to celebration, family and friends, and, of course, gift giving! And it’s in this holiday spirit, that Haivision (one of the founding members of the SRT Alliance) wanted to share a special gift with the global community of SRT enthusiasts – streamers, product developers, broadcast engineers, video producers, and those who rely on the SRT protocol for secure, high-quality, and low latency video streaming.   SRT Protocol Player: Haivision Play Pro  Haivision Play Pro [...]

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December 17, 2019

SRT Alliance Eclipses 300 Members with Alibaba Cloud, Internet Initiative Japan, Kiswe, and Red5 Pro supporting the SRT Open Source Video Streaming Project

SRT protocol continues meteoric rise in popularity, fueling low latency video transport across the globe Montreal, Canada – December 17, 2019 – The SRT Alliance, supporting the SRT Open Source Project, announces that Alibaba Cloud, Internet Initiative Japan, Kiswe, and Red5 Pro have joined the SRT Alliance showing their support of the cross industry adoption of the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) Open Source protocol and technology. This brings the total number of SRT Alliance members to more than 300 companies.  SRT, [...]

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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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