Category: Video Asset Management

Online video distribution business Netflix accounts for 20% of all peak time traffic and their business is now giving some Hollywood executives cause for concern about the amount of leverage they are acquiring according to this Hollywoodreporter.com article:

“”…just about every major content creator now has a streaming deal …

StreamingMedia.com carried an article last week on the poor performance of the majority (68%) of US consumers broadband connections were not meeting the definition of true broadband speed (4Mbps down, 1Mbps up).  The article was based on a US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) report from 2009.

Tim Siglin, the …

Dan Rayburn, writing on Streamingmedia.com reports that the average reduction in CDN video delivery charges was on average down by 20% in 2010, as compared with 45% in 2009.  While a decline, the trend appears to be slowing suggesting demand for online video delivery is resilient despite the tighter global …

The Limelight blog has an article on what to consider when adding video content to your web presence:

“Build or buy. The choice to build your own video platform or outsource video publishing depends in part on your ability to make educated decisions about video player technology, transcoding needs, …

Adobe have released a Dreamweaver  widget based on the Kalutra HTML5 video library which simplifies the task of switching between Flash and HTML5 video players to support video playback across multiple browsers or devices:

“HTML5 has received a tremendous amount of buzz, much of it driven by the potential …

As revealed by transcoding services provider, encoding.com, demand for FLV (Flash Video) remains despite the ongoing debates over HTML5 and the transition to H.264.  As many commentators have pointed out, while the iPad and iPod may be FLV-unfriendly, in the corporate world, many users still cannot view anything …

Jan Ozer, writing on Streamingmedia.com has carried out some in-depth testing of the Google supported WebM and H.264 video codecs:

“This article compares H.264 to WebM, Google’s implementation of the VP8 codec, using three variables, encoding time, compressed quality and CPU requirements for playback on three personal computers. Here’s …

Writing on the Streamingmedia.com blog, Dom Robinson considers whether the developers of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) have effectively been acting as beta testers for browser developers to help them decide what features are likely to be in demand or not:

“While the prevalence of Internet Explorer will be …

In this article in the June/July issue of StreamingMedia.com, Michael Baumann discusses the increasing significance of Video Digital Asset Management and has obtained a number of quotes from industry insiders and solution vendors which suggest there is an on-going exponential growth in Video DAM.  Also of note is the …

DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a report, Video Digital Asset Management: 12 Crucial Points which covers a range of different topics about handling video in DAM systems.  The report appears to be written from a reasonably neutral perspective and should be of interest to anyone looking into Video DAM.

The …

As reported on Seeking Alpha, Video on Demand provider, Netflix potentially face increased competition as a result of a US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) decision:

“A recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision is likely to increase competition for Netflix as it clears the way for new films to …

Now everyone is talking about HTML5, many DAM vendors will be looking to extend their Flash video support with an HTML5 compatible player also to add to the ever-growing stack of video delivery platforms which many need to support (including QuickTime and Silverlight in a number of cases).  The template.com …