Authors Daniel Silhavy“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….
Authors Daniel SilhavySpoiler alert: What lies between 237.58 and 237.59 ? No, my cat did not walk over my keyboard and just entered some random numbers (I don’t even have a cat). Somewhere in between these two numbers lies a magical number….
Authors Daniel SilhavyTypically, media streaming in browser-based environments is based on unicast delivery. Streaming services such as Netflix, DAZN, Amazon Prime, Disney and Youtube use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to deliver media segments and manifest files in a one-to-one (unicast) fashion to…
Authors Daniel SilhavyMost people in the streaming industry probably watch live streams a bit different from “normal” people. Personally, I am always curious about the formats and settings the streaming providers use and if there is anything special to be found. When…
Authors Daniel SilhavyAs part of our work on dash.js we are involved in numerous interesting discussions and face various exciting problems. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is definitely one of the most challenging areas in the context of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming and…
Authors Mariana AvelinoFAMIUM 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…
Authors Mariana AvelinoFAMIUM 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…
Authors Daniel SilhavyOne of the key features of a production grade video player is the ability to recover from critical errors. Talking about web-based video players there are a lot of potential errors that can cause the playback to fail. From our…
Authors Daniel SilhavyDuring 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…
Authors Mariana AvelinoIn 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…