Netflix have switched streaming to encoding in H.264 High Profile and VP9 (profile 0), in response to increasing processor capabilities of decoding streams online. The fact that both these compression formats have found broad decoder support from Mobile Hardware and Android OS respectively has motivated this change. Netflix optimize their encoding to H.264 high AVCHi-Mobile (H.264 High Profile) and VP9 Codecs Essentially the difference between baseline, main and high profiles of H.264 encoding is increasing compression efficiency, with the requirement of greater decoding capability. This means that compression in high profile reduces video bitrate for a given stream quality more…
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Cloud Video Platforms: How It Works & Top 5 List
With the everyday increase in popularity of video streaming platforms, businesses need a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud video platform. And owing to the current COVID scenario across the world, people are consuming a lot more content than before. Hence, more businesses are launching or scaling on cloud video platforms on a daily basis. Cloud video platform have reduced the infrastructure needs as compared to traditional broadcasting technologies. They are being potentially recognized for their features like unlimited storage, convenience, scalability, and security. Keeping these things in mind, we’ll be taking you through a basic explanation of cloud video platforms…
Netflix DRM: How & Why of Encrypted Video Security? 2023
With Netflix's popularity booming around the world, video piracy seems to be a major issue to combat. In 2020, Netflix spent nearly 12 billion U.S. dollars on its original content creation. Any illegal content distribution may lead to a decrease in paid subscribers and revenue loss. When people pirate movies and TV shows, they are less likely to subscribe to legal streaming services like Netflix. To fight video piracy, Netflix uses Digital Right Management (DRM) to protect the copyrights of its premium content. Netflix DRM is one of the most secured anti-piracy solutions for premium videos. Table Of Content: The…
How to Create Video Hosting Website like YouTube as Streaming Platform
According to Statista, there were 4.95 million worldwide internet users as of January 2022. This accounts for nearly two-thirds of the global population connected to the internet. With such a fast-growing online user base, more and more websites are coming up each day. The count today stands at more than 1.8 billion global websites. Amid such a competitive market, your site must stand out in the crowd and attract search engines to direct traffic to your website. It involves using the latest technologies on your website to have a creative path for the visitor to understand your product or service.…
Geo-Blocking Video & Geo Restrictions across Territories Guide
If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access a website only to be told that it's unavailable in your country, you've been geo-blocked. Geo-blocking is a common practice on the internet and restricts access to everything from online stores to streaming video content. Such Geographical blocking is a way of restricting access to online content based on a user's geographic location. Geo-blocking works on all content types, including websites and web services, but it's most notable for video content. Table Of Content: How Geo-Blocking works Purpose of Geo-Blocking Video & Digital Content How is geo-block implemented? Common ways of…