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3 weeks ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
In November 2024, Wowza appointed Krish Kumar CEO. Wowza provides foundational technologies to many name-brand products and services, as well as streaming functionality to tens of thousands of developers integrating video into their operations. Understanding where Kumar plans to take Wowza is critical to all those whose businesses touch streaming video. To learn more about Krish and Wowza’s future direction, contributing editor Jan Ozer interviewed him about ten days before NAB 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
Three licensors of the Via LA HEVC Patent Pool (M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II) have filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in the Landgericht Duesseldorf court in Germany, alleging unlicensed use of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technology in several Microsoft products. The Via LA HEVC patent pool, which now covers VVC as well, covers patents essential to the HEVC video compression standard.
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3 weeks ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
Three licensors of the Via LA HEVC Patent Pool (M&K Holdings, Gensquare, and Tagivan II) have filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft in the Landgericht Duesseldorf court in Germany, alleging unlicensed use of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technology in several Microsoft products. In this interview with Streaming Learning Center's Jan Ozer, patent attorney Gottfried Schull, who is representing Via LA HEVC, discusses what's at issue in the lawsuit.
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3 weeks ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
Although software transcoding is acceptable for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to save you money and to save the planet.
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1 month ago | 
streaminglearningcenter.com | Jan Ozer
In their paper entitled, Multi-resolution Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming using VVenC, Kamran Qureshi, Hadi Amirpour, and Christian Timmerer from the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria) propose an accelerated multi-resolution encoding strategy for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) using VVenC, an optimized open-source Versatile Video Coding (VVC) encoder.
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2 months ago | 
streaminglearningcenter.com | Jan Ozer
At Mile High Video 2025, I sat down with Jean-Baptiste Kempf (JB), founder of Kyber and lead developer of VLC, to discuss his latest innovations in ultra-low latency video control. JB is well-known in the open-source community for his work on VLC Player and FFmpeg, and now, with Kyber, he’s pushing the boundaries of real-time machine control. You can watch the YouTube video here, and it’s also embedded below. Quotes have been lightly edited for readability.
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2 months ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Steve Nathans-Kelly |Jan Ozer
The arc of AV1 codec adoption for large-scale content owners has been long and complex, as Meta Senior Media Software Engineer David Ronca (who also spent 12 years developing encoding solutions at Netflix) knows as well as anyone. In this interview with Jan Ozer of Streaming Media and Streaming Learning Center, Ronca discusses the integration of AV1 into the Android ecosystem, focusing on the challenges and solutions for mobile devices.
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2 months ago | 
streaminglearningcenter.com | Jan Ozer
When my daughter owned a Tesla during her college years, one thing I never thought to do was play YouTube videos on the LCD panel. It turns out that was a good call—if I had tried to stream AV1 content, playback performance likely would have been choppy and disappointing. Why bring this up? Tesla recently announced that it was rolling back YouTube streaming from AV1 to VP9, citing smoother playback as the reason for the change. The problem?
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2 months ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
H.267 should be finalized between July and October 2028. If history holds, this means H.267 won’t see meaningful deployment until 2034–2036, long after I hang up my keyboard. Here's a brief description of what the standard is designed to deliver and my free and totally unsolicited advice to the committees and technology developers that will create it. Main Performance GoalsBefore diving into my unsolicited advice, here’s what H.267 is designed to deliver.
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2 months ago | 
streamingmedia.com | Jan Ozer
As third-party cookies disappear, video publishers face a stark reality. Without precise targeting and retargeting, their ad inventory risks becoming commoditized. For midsize players like FAST channels and smaller ad-supported streaming platforms, this challenge is especially acute. Unlike industry giants with vast first-party data reserves and advanced ad tech ecosystems, these publishers often lack the resources to replace the functionality cookies once provided.
