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CEO David Stubenvoll says the investment from Clearhaven Partners will let Wowza accelerate innovation and growth, and possibly even open new offices, without the restrictions and hassle of being a listed company.

What Is H.264? This is an installment in our ongoing series of "What Is...?" articles, designed to offer definitions, history, and context around significant terms and issues in the online video industry. Executive Summary H.264 is the most widely used codec on the planet, with significant penetration in optical disc, broadcast, and streaming video markets. However, many uses of H.264 are subject to royalties, something that should be considered prior to its adaption. Other ...

This article is part of Streaming Medias "What Is" series. Executive Summary Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, the video is digitized, encoded, re-encoded, and frequently transcoded, with possible stops along the way for transrating,  transsizing, and transmuxing. These are terms we use every day, but few, if any, have precise de...

Bitmovin Raises $25 Million in Series C Financing Bitmovin, a leading provider of video infrastructure for global digital media companies, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series C financing. The company will leverage this investment to drive the continued expansion of its product innovation and technology leadership in the streaming space. Bitmovins Series C round was led by Swisscom Ventures with participation from Climb Ventures, and existing investors: Atomic...

New Rules of Codec Development It took about 10 years to launch both H.264 and HEVC, so MPEGs much more ambitious launch of VVC, EVC, and LCEVC in 2020 and 2021 makes you wonder about its chances for success. Not only does it have to effectively differentiate each codec against the other, it also has to create compelling business cases against the Alliance for Open Medias (AOMedia) AV1 and existing MPEG codecs like HEVC and even H.264, which is still going strong. Recent d...

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 youre new to the market, youll learn a bit about whos who and whats what; if youve been in the streaming business for a while, youll probably not get a lot out of this. As always, the group of companies mentioned is representative rather than ...

See more videos like this on StreamingMedia.com. Read the complete transcript of this clip: Colleen Kelly Henry: If you have your own data centers and your own infrastructure team, its entirely possible that youre 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 theres a support matrix of decoder capabilities, from mo...

CEO Interview: Richard Oesterricher, Streaming Global Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: Im Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, and Im 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...