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High Efficiency Video Codec

Video compression standard, published in 2013, with the goal to succeed AVC/H.264 by reducing bitrate up to 50% while maintaining the same perceptual video quality (PVQ).

HTTP Live Streaming

HTTP Live Streaming is an Apple standard for ABR media streaming using fMP4 or MPEG-TS containers and H.264 or H.265 video codecs.

Improved Quality of Service (QoS) For Advertisement Delivery Across OTT: Best Practices

Advertisement insertion into OTT streams is a critical part of the overall user experience. Breakdowns in services or delivery can have a detrimental impact on viewer churn. To…

Industry Associations and Standards Organizations

There are numerous industry associations, trade associations, technical groups, and standards definitions organizations (SDOs), operating in the streaming industry space (or adjacent to it). Below is a list…

Interactive Video Service

Interactive Video Service is a managed live streaming service from Amazon Web Services, built on the same tech that powers Twitch.

Key Network Delivery Metrics

This document describes key network delivery metrics for streaming Internet video. The Streaming Video Alliance Quality of Experience (QoE) working group (WG) developed these metrics as a common…

Libav

Live Streaming Workflow

High level view of video streaming workflow for live content.

Low-Latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (LL-DASH)

Low-Latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (LL-DASH) is an extension of the MPEG-DASH protocol designed to minimize latency in video streaming. While both LL-DASH and DASH are based…

Low-latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS)

Low-latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) is an extension of the HLS protocol designed to minimize latency in video streaming. While both LL-HLS and HLS are based on similar…

Manifest

A manifest refers to a text file that describes other files that can be fetched as part of Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR). A master manifest is a text…

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of experts that develops standards for audio and video compression and transmission.

Objective Perceptual Video Quality

A Perceptual Video Quality (PVQ) evaluation technique, based on mathematical models, where computer algorithms rate the quality of the video, i.e., video quality is not rated by human…

Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 2 – Extensions to CDNi Metadata Object Model

This is part two in a set of documents that specifies the motivational drivers, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content…

OpenPlayerJS

Optimizing Video Delivery With The Open Caching Network

Over-the-Top (OTT)

Over-The-Top (OTT) is a term used to describe video services which are taking leverage of the user internet access. It can be either deployed over managed or non…

Perceptual Video Quality

Measure of visual quality of video content as perceived by viewers. Poor PVQ can impact QoE. Poor QoS can impact PVQ. The perceived video quality can be evaluated…