In layman’s terms, SRT is an open-source video transport protocol that enables the delivery of high quality and secure, low latency video over the public internet. In more technical terms, it fixes jitter effects and bandwidth changes as a video is being streamed, while minimizing packet loss.
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Everyone is trying to do more with less and the newsroom is no different. Automation offers significant benefits, including the ability to quickly make changes and adapt technically to things like work from home and remote production. But to what extent is AI taking over the newsroom?
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In the previous article in this series, we looked at the challenges of streaming media for broadcasters, and in this article, we look at how specialized CDNs designed specifically for broadcast television delivers a greatly improved streaming experience for viewers.
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Using lessons learned from its bubble experience during the 2020 pandemic season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) continues to reimagine how it broadcasts games to its viewers while also carefully returning to traditional production workflows that have served its TV coverage well. However, there’s no doubt that various R…
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MPEG LA, LLC, the Denver, Colorado-based licensing group overseeing such essential video compression patents as the MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, ATSC and HEVC standards, has released its highly anticipated Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Patent Portfolio License terms of use and many are concerned that the pricing might make VVC,…
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“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” U.S. president Harry S. Truman famously said. But when there’s a cooking show to produce, audio engineers have no alternative but to improvise.
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Consumption of news on mobile devices has been soaring for over a decade, overtaking desktop PCs in 2016 in many markets such as the US and some European countries.
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Media streaming over the internet is unique. Packet switched networks were never designed to deliver continuous and long streams of media but instead were built to efficiently process transactional and short bursts of data. The long streams of video and audio data are relentless in their network demands…
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In the previous article in this series, we looked at the advantages of software-KVM and how it differs from some of the VPN solutions available. In this article, we look at further improving security through end-to-end solutions.
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