| 26 May 2021
Aiming to enhance and deliver rapid asset processing of on-demand OTT and IPTV content, leading Spanish pay-TV subscription service Movistar+ has turned to MediaKind’s Aquila On-Demand solution.
The Telefónica-owned video and TV service launched in August 2020 and will deploy the media technology platform in a number of areas, encompassing transcoding, transformation, packaging, and delivery capabilities. More specifically, Aquila On-Demand will enable Telefónica to add several new VOD offerings to the Movistar+ platform, supported by a range of digital rights management (DRM) platforms, including HLS/Fairplay and DASH/CENC.
MediaKind believes that Movistar+ will benefit from premium video quality up to 4K, enabled by latest HEVC/H264 codec implementations. It adds that the deployment will also enable Movistar+ to obtain a “dramatic” performance increase, with a microservices architecture allowing the platform to process the media more than twice