All Content Transcoding articles – Page 5
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Industry TrendsBroadcast codecs and the challenges of the streaming era
David Davies examines some of the new-generation codecs that are emerging to meet this demand.
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Industry Trends
Rise up: Mentoring women to succeed in broadcasting
As advocacy group, Rise, enters its second year championing and supporting women in the broadcasting industry, IBC365 speaks with participants from Avid, BT and Deluxe.
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News
Sony invests in Nevion to boost IP offering
Sony is set to bolster its end-to-end IP offering having struck a partnership and investment deal with Nevion.
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Industry Trends
Nordic broadcasters breaking boundaries
As consumers navigate the crowded OTT and linear TV market, traditional broadcasters are also looking to diversify and add value beyond their core offering. The cooperation and competition among broadcasters, technology companies and digital streaming services were the hot topic during a leadership debate at the recent Northern Waves ...
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Industry Trends
NGA and new delivery: defining audio post workflows
The call to deliver content in more formats, the continued rise of immersive and object-based audio, and the prospect of further loudness recommendations are among the issues making fresh demands on the tools used audio post.
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News
Bafta boss calls for TV to address climate change
A new report analysing subtitle data found environmental sustainability themes were significantly underrepresented across British TV.
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Industry Trends
New lessons in localisation
The growth in OTT platforms has boosted demand for the localisation and regionalisation of content. And the cloud is proving to be a terrific enabler, writes David Davies.
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Industry Trends
Managing and manipulating 4K and 8K content
The shift to 4K and 8K production has required improvements downstream, with those involved in managing and manipulating images in need of greater processing power and increased storage.
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Industry Trends
What next for IP?
With the ratification of the SMPTE ST2110 family of standards in 2018, it might be thought that the topic of IP connectivity would be filed under “sorted” but the recent NAB convention showed that this was far from the case.
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Industry Trends
AV1: Codec wars erupt
NAB 2019: Just as AV1 gains significant momentum, its royalty-free agenda comes under threat
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Industry Trends
2018’s most-read Management articles
The battle for codecs intensified and dominated the most-read content management articles along with cyber security and interviews with 21CF and Aljazeera executives.
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Industry Trends
Your guide to Raw production
IBC365 takes an in-depth look at an increasingly popular choice for acquisition, with new methods trading cumbersome, data heavy workflows for virtually identical image fidelity but at lower data rates and file sizes.
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Industry Trends
Creating a codec for tomorrow’s content
Alliance for Open Media spokesman Matt Frost on the rollout of AV1 and the creation of another delivery codec.
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Industry Trends
IBC2018 Tech Talks: Codec wars
Read technical papers from Ateme, BBC R D and Divideon lifting the lid on serious disquiet in the world of video compression and watch experts recent progress and predict future performance gains.
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Technical Papers
XVC: Revolutionary software-defined video compression
This paper presents background information on the state of video codec licensing and lays out a description of the XVC licensing framework, constructed to significantly improve the current video codec licensing situation.
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Technical Papers
An overview of recent video coding developments in MPEG and AV1
This paper analyses the overall compression capabilities of these two emerging technologies with respect to HEVC, including objective and subjective performance evaluation and the associated encoding and decoding complexities.
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Technical Papers
AV1: Implementation, performance and applications
Now that the specification is finalised, the Alliance for Open Media has set high expectations for AV1. The prospect of a royalty free alternative to HEVC has many industry supporters, particularly those addressing streaming applications for a standard that is optimised for OTT delivery.
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Industry Trends
HEVC, AV1, VVC and XVC: The codec battle intensifies
The world of codecs will be one of the big talking points at IBC this month, as the industry weighs up a raft of new, more efficient video compression techniques like AV1, VVC and XVC.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Melody Hildebrandt, 21st Century Fox
From board games to board rooms, the rise of Melody Hildebrandt to Global Chief Information Security Officer at 21st Century Fox has come at a time of great change and heightened risk in the media landscape.
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Industry Trends
How more standards could help the move to Media 4.0
Metadata is crucial as an enabler of automated production and targeted content. Would a standard help?
