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How to Design a Video Platform

May 21st, 2013. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

In this post, we are going to dwell on the process of video platform design for our Together project. From the technical viewpoint, this project is remarkable by containing the entire content lifecycle, from its creation on mobile devices to distribution and viewing. While designing the platform, we sought to attain solution flexibility and cost-efficiency. With the new video platform you can receive, store and share videos. All video management tasks were implemented on Apple HLS. (more…)

OSMF HLS Plugin

May 16th, 2013. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

Having been involved in the Together project, I was assigned a task to enable Apple HLS video playback on the Flash platform. Video content delivery in a single format (HLS in this case) is usually very easy and offers many benefits. To process video, Flash has an open source OSMF framework that can be easily enhanced with various plugins. But there is one problem: the framework is absolutely HLS-agnostic. Adobe promoted RTMP first, and only then offered HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) as an alternative to Apple HLS. In this post, we’ll cover a free HLS plugin that we have developed to run HLS in OSMF-enabled video players. (more…)

ConnectedTV: Applications for Philips NetTV

April 10th, 2013. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

In this post, we are going to discuss development of applications for Philips NetTV. (more…)

OTT: Video Services on Panasonic TV Screens

December 15th, 2012. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

Over the recent years, the largest TV manufacturers are actively exploring into Web-based TV service, and Panasonic is no exception at that. The Japanese company experts have implemented their vision of Smart TV based on the Viera Connect technology. (more…)

Video Platform Development in DENIVIP Media

November 25th, 2012. Published under DENIVIP Media company, Development, Online Video. No Comments.

DENIVIP Media has been creating video platforms since 2008 (usually in conjunction with services, portals and applications). Over the 4 years of developing ad-hoc video platforms for different projects, we have accumulated a decent expertise and information on many hindrances that are almost inevitable in video projects. In this post, I would like to brief you on how we design video platforms and what drivers have to be taken into account when creating a new or upgrading an old video platform. Also, I would like to note major forthcoming trends in the development of video platforms foreeable for the near future. (more…)

Case Study: BBC Olympics

November 21st, 2012. Published under Development, Highload, Online Video. No Comments.

The BBC Olympics sports broadcast service is one of the largest media events of 2012. It has brought the video service industry to a totally new level, earning for the 2012 Olympics the popularity of "truly digital games". In this context, it is critical to acknowledge the importance of expertise gained and leverage it in further growth. In this post, we are going to dwell into the project, its implementation, and valuable experience that you can apply to your own projects. (more…)

HTTP Live Streaming Cookbook Updated!

September 20th, 2012. Published under Development, Online Video, iOS. No Comments.

Creating technically seamless applications has always been a pretty tough task in terms of time and complexity. Moreover, helpful data is scattered across multiple sources. This also applies to iOS video applications development. In this post, we have aggregated the most vital and helpful information on efficient use of all the features of HTTP Live Streaming, with detailed data source list. These materials are prerequisite to anyone who intends to ensure high quality of viewing experience. (more…)

Video Statistics Service

August 15th, 2012. Published under Development, Highload, Online Video, Web Analytics. No Comments.

It is in no way a secret that video statistics and analytics are crucial to any video portal. One of the main rationales behind video statistics is to enable settlements with copyright holders. However it covers a number of other crucial tasks, including:

• Limit the number of parallel viewers using the same account (obviously, you do not wish all friends and relatives of one lucky customer view content under a single account? Well, let them watch it, but at least sequentially rather than in parallel ).
• Prevent viewing of any video to users that have got a subscription by mistake or due to some manipulation,
• Evaluate the quality and popularity of video
• Return to the point where watching was interrupted last time (on any device)
• And, last but not least, enhance the user experience.

Of course, we should keep in mind that, every video portal has specific tasks that absolutely cannot do without the viewing statistics. In this post, we are going to discuss specifics of such a service. (more…)

HTTP Streaming: Load Balancing

July 17th, 2012. Published under Development, Online Video. No Comments.

In most cases, modern video content delivery systems are based on HTTP Streaming. This technology delivers video in a series of fragments (chunks), several seconds each. The most popular video delivery formats are Apple HTTP Live Streaming and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming. In the near future, MPEG DASH will also probably become popular. The benefits offered by this type of delivery consist in a more stable video platform operation over a heterogeneous public network (Internet) and use of existing mechanisms of traditional CDN networks (HTTP chunk caching). But often traditional media is not sufficient, and large-scale online video services usually require a more flexible management of video content delivery. In our projects, we use our Video Load Balancer. In this post, we are going to outline the basics of its operation that might be helpful to your projects regardless of the load balancing technology you use. (more…)

iOS DRM: Secure iOS Video Delivery and Playback

July 10th, 2012. Published under Development, Online Video. 2 Comments.

HTTP Live Streaming (HTTP LS) is a protocol strongly recommended and actively promoted by Apple as the best solution for online video delivery to mobile devices. But neither the protocol itself, nor its tools offered by the iOS API, implement a full-fledged DRM support. The new version of Adobe Access 4.0 adds this missing functionality to the iOS-devices. (more…)