Buyers Guide to VOD Encoders
This video-on-demand buyers guide is meant to walk newbies through what an encoder is and how to choose one, rather than help a serious buyer choose a vendor or approach in any of the categories covered. If you re new to the market, you ll learn a bit about who s who and what s what; if you ve been in the streaming business for a while, you ll probably not get a lot out of this. As always, the group of companies mentioned is representative rather than exhaustive.
Let s start with some datapoints, courtesy of Bitmovin s 2020 Video Developer Report, which incorporates responses from 792 participants located in more than 80 countries.
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Colleen Kelly Henry: If you have your own data centers and your own infrastructure team, it s entirely possible that you re rolling out a codec on a smaller project, where there is no ROI necessarily because not even monetized, but then all of that engineering work can be reused later in other products. What I do I look at currently is that basically there s a support matrix of decoder capabilities, from mobile devices, Android iOS for me Oculus Quest 2, browsers, yada yada, yada. And from there you break down things into as granular levels of understanding as possible.
CEO Interview: Richard Oesterricher, Streaming Global
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: I m Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, and I m catching up today with Streaming Global CEO Richard Oesterreicher. Richard, can you briefly explain what Streaming Global does?
Richard Oesterreicher: Streaming Global is a media technology company that has invented and patented a re-imagined media delivery pipeline that solved the three major pain points plaguing the streaming industry, namely the high cost of delivery, the lack of reliability at scale, and the long latency times and delays that we all experience with streaming.
Schumacher-Rasmussen: There has been lots of discussion in the industry about how much money media companies have spent to get a streaming service to market. The lion s share of those dollars is in content acquisition, but there is also a significant investment required for reliable delivery at scale. Can Streaming Global s delivery pipeline hel