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 provide users with the best possible Quality of Experience (QoE), content publishers must take into account the advertising workflow with regards to
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 language to describe effectiveness of network delivery. Although many more metrics could have been documented, these particular metrics represent the most common
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 delivery network (CDN) and open caching ecosystem. This document presents the context and requirements for extending the Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNi)
Content Delivery Network is a data network optimized for the delivery of content, e.g. video, at a large scale. Comprised of both hardware and software components.
Digital Rights Management is the use of keys and certificates to authorize playback of a video stream to a specific user and/or device over IP streaming like OTT.
Group of Pictures is a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream. It is composed of I, P, B and D frames which are composing the GOP structure.
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 subjects (see Subjective Quality Assessment). Objective Video Quality assessments strive to approximate Subjective Video Quality results. Objective Video Quality evaluations can be
Over-The-Top 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 managed network. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content.
Trick play is a feature of digital video systems that mimic the visual feedback given during fast-forward, pause and rewind operations that were provided by analog systems, such as VCRs and in multiple speeds.
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