An update to the CMAF DRM/Codec overview in 2024
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’,…
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’,…
In one of our previous blog posts we looked into playback of a multicast DASH stream in dash.js using the 5G-MAG Reference Tools. In this article, we go even a step further: Based on the availability we dynamically and seamlessly…
“Content distributors often use multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to distribute their content to the end-users. They may upload a copy of their catalog to each CDN, or more commonly have all CDNs pull the content from a common origin….
FAMIUM SAND is an analytics tool for content providers to monitor the performance of their streaming services. In this blog post, we continue to explore SAND’s debugging capabilities using two more concrete examples. For our first example check out Part…
FAMIUM SAND is an analytics tool for content providers to monitor the performance of their streaming services. What makes SAND stand out from other analytics tools is its debugging-oriented design and in this two-part blog post, we are going to…
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…
In the second blog post of the SAND series, we will take a detailed look at the different FAMIUM SAND dashboards: Real-Time Monitoring, Reporting, Errors Overview, DRM/ Media/ XHR Errors and Session Details. Read on to discover what the purpose…
Short answer: No, it’s ‘cbcs’ time. If you would like to understand this better, keep on reading. The Common Encryption standard ISO/IEC 23001-7 is the enabler for multi-DRM-protected DASH/HLS streams. It is not quite “common encryption” as the name suggest,…
Welcome to the first blog post of our latest series „SAND“! Here we will introduce our solution „FAMIUM SAND“ by explaining what it is and why it’s important, especially for content providers. We’ll keep our discussion high-level, but if you…