Hans is a content writer at Unified Streaming. He thought Dutch was difficult, then he heard software engineers speak English.
Video piracy’s a big, tricky thing for content creators, streaming platforms, and studios. Annually, the cost of imposters passing programming off as theirs can soar into the billions of dollars.
Immersive home entertainment tech: what’s not to love? You flop down on your sofa, fire up your device, and as the content plays, all sorts of good feelings …
At some point, everyone goes on a quest. And just like there’s all sorts of people, there’s all sorts of quests. Some people go on a quest to find love. Ot…
What’s CMAF ingest? CMAF ingest is a collaboration between members of the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) and companies operating within the OTT industry. Es…
To misquote Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the 147th of times, it was the 45th of times.”In mid-July 2024, in Sapporo, Japan, MPEG — an allian…
Unified Virtual Channel debuted in Unified Streaming’s product portfolio in early 2023. Since then the company has enriched the product, adding more features…
As NAB Show 2024 nears (we’ll be there, booth W3220), we notice that FAST channels are living it up. They’re getting front rows at trade shows. They’re…
The other day, a peer in the streaming community reached out via our Unified Certified Slack channel (our forum for exchanging advice with our software cours…
Recently I sat at a café with my colleague Mark Ogle, senior streaming solutions engineer at Unified Streaming (and someone far smarter than I). Unified Vir…
Do you know the phrase “cut to the chase”? It comes from early Hollywood. Movie execs said it, meaning, Let’s skip extra dialogue and go straight to the action.
Let’s say you’re a content creator, a content owner, a broadcaster, or an OTT streaming service. You’ve got some programming that’s not pulling its weight. …
Now that you’ve got content, you want to stream it.But what else? Put in ads? Charge more for better quality? Create deeply personalized experiences? How abo…
Our company uses Slack. I’m an active member of about 5 channels, where I post comments, replies, and emojis. My comments and replies are either jokes or att…
The term “Hyrum’s Law” was brought up in a tech standup meeting the other day. I think a developer said some customer had jerry-rigged our source code for so…
There are gobs of content out there. Even on a good day it’s hard to tell the difference between one gob of content and another gob. So how do you set y…
In streaming, there’s a simple relationship between quality and satisfaction. If the streaming quality is good, users are happy and don’t complain. But if …
Guess what is no surprise? That the demand for high-quality video experiences keeps spiking. Streaming platforms that want to meet this demand firs…
Recently a major telco, a client we’ve worked with for years, brought a problem to our attention. During most of their programs they noticed frames were bein…
If you’ve ever played the video game Grand Theft Auto, you’ve felt it. The thrill! Crashing your car, robbing people, and doing much worse. De…
Issues pop up outta nowhere. They try to corner you. They try to kill your streaming workflow. Never fear, streaming engineer.
Size. In tech, we deal with it daily. We’re growing our profits. The meeting’s going longer than expected. The client wants a short turnaround. Video streaming devs can relate. In particular, the size of language codes has been flummoxing some of you recently.
We live in an extraordinary age. Even our grandparents are on TikTok! Social media platforms make it all so easy. But if you want to set up your own stream…
Where I come from, we have a phrase that I didn’t think was odd or absolutely horrific until I began writing this blog. “There are many ways to skin a cat.”…
“We are aligned.” So many people, so many things in this world need to align with others to work well. These things include audio tracks. With your video tracks. Oh, and your text tracks, too.
“Everyone’s talking about FAST channels.”That’s not quite true. Everyone who knows what FAST channels are, and either profits from them already, or plans to…
This month’s question, which we’ve been getting a lot, is: How do I run a containerized setup of your software on my new Apple Silicon-based Mac? Well, firs…
Children are often praised for “playing well with others.” That same quality prized in kids can pay off for OTT (over-the-top) video streaming companies. No…