IBC 2019 report: the calm before the storm We’ll spare you here the demos about 5G, 8K and blockchains. We’re sure by the time you read this article you’ll find other reports to cover them extensively! Convergence of networks (hybrid … Continue reading
IBC 2019 organization comments Click here for our report about the IBC content. This year IBC was in our opinion the best edition of the last five years. After a disappointing NAB 2019, and a very disappointing IBC 2018, IBC … Continue reading
What prevents new Netflix-es to emerge Introduction Since Netflix emerged as a giant the SVoD market went through different phases: people didn’t believe it would succeed (some still do!), then existing actors were unable to understand and move appropriately, then … Continue reading
Understanding upcoming changes in GPAC The release of GPAC 0.8 in June 2019 is an important milestone. The professional video industry likes releases. On the other hands development teams have enjoyed our stable nightly builds for years. Both will love … Continue reading
Three sources of latency What is latency? Latency is the time elapsed between two events, which in a perfect world, would be simultaneous. In a live video streaming scenario, the latency is typically the time elapsed between the capture of … Continue reading
Wind in the sails of MPEG Motion Spell, the company behind GPAC Licensing, has been quite involved in projects that required to follow the standardization activity. The environment has started to change these last years. Deep changes at MPEG The … Continue reading
Our journey in low latency OTT (DASH, HLS) Introduction Low latency discussions in the professional video industry are everywhere and nowhere. Everywhere because the public and the professionals have embraced this cause. Nowhere because what could have been a breakthrough … Continue reading
The perils of start codes In many video codecs, each top-level unit of video is prefixed with a predefined sequence of bytes, known as a “start code”. This start code acts as a robust delimiter between top-level units. This sequence … Continue reading
Transitioning from 2018 to 2019 For GPAC Licensing 2018 has been an excellent business year. And 2019 looks even better! Our reading grid of the market got right ; therefore our R&D efforts paid: ATSC3 monitoring: our novel approach got … Continue reading
Dear followers, Due to the lack of interest this year at IBC, there will be no report. Previous reports: NAB 2018 IBC 2017 Thank you for understanding and for all the good moments, The GPAC Licensing Team
