Encoding

The 12th FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) and Media Web Week have come to an end. And one thing is certain: even after all these years, the FOKUSMWS is anything but routine. It was a week full of innovation, exciting…

This blog post is an update to “Is this the end of ‘cenc’? An overview of DRM/Codec support in 2021”. If you still need to support Smart TV devices older than 2020 it is still not the end of ‘cenc’,…

One of the core components of each Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) player is the algorithm that decides on the optimal playback quality. There are tons of research papers on the topic of ABR decisioning, but most of the developed algorithms…

During the WWDC 2021 conference, Apple announced a new tool called Advanced Video Quality Tool (AVQT): “AVQT is a macOS command line tool, which estimates perceptual quality of compressed videos, that might contain video coding and scaling artifacts”. [1] Similarly…

Welcome back to the Deep Encode series! In the previous post, we introduced the entire FAMIUM Deep Encode project and touched upon different aspects and components of the architecture, including a sneak peek into per-scene encoding. In this post, we…

In times of Corona not only are big conventions shifting to online meetings but Fraunhofer FOKUS (and many other companies,) have transitioned their regular town hall meetings to virtual settings as well. In this blog post we will explain how…

FFmpeg is a great tool for video processing, it basically allows us to manipulate videos any way we like. Depending on the concrete use case, however, it can be challenging to assemble the right command. In this blog post, I…

In 2016, Netflix introduced the concept of per-title-encoding. In a very interesting blog post and a detailed paper, Netflix described their findings and how the results can be interpreted. In this blog post, I would like to describe my understanding of per-title encoding and…