With streaming workflows increasingly combining tools from different vendors and in different locations (on-premises and in the cloud), compatibility is becoming ever more important. CMAF ingest can improve compatibility, enabling greater flexibility when designing, scaling, and adapting workflows.
When Cognacq-Jay Image needed to monitor live streams being created more than 10 km away, it needed very low-latency encoders – and was skeptical about software-based encoders meeting its requirements.
Learn how it achieved 200 ms latency, while building an infrastructure that could be shared for both monitoring and playout.
SCTE-35 and SCTE-104 are the standards used in ad insertion to signal a switch to a different type of content. This signalling can be done in two ways: splice insert or time signal. This blog post explores these two modes and offers a guideline on which one to use, when.
Much of our industry was built on open-source software. While some of these free software tools are widely known and used, others are still obscure. This blog post gives an overview of the most significant open-source projects that have reshaped, are shaping, or could shape our industry.