Why bother with PTP and SMPTE ST 2059?
by Since the beginning of TV synchronising all the elements has been critical. It all started with having to synchronise the beam in the video cameras …
What is the VSF (Video Services Forum)?
The Video Services Forum was founded in 1998 to provide forums to identify issues related to video networking technology and foster resolution of issues common …
What is SSAI (Server-Side Ad Insertion)
Ads are critical to many streaming services as without the revenue they bring the service would not be commercially viable. No-one’s under the illusion that …
What is SRT?
Secure, Reliable Transport, known simply as SRT, is a protocol that allows unreliable networks like the internet to be used for reliable, encrypted, live video …
RIST, SRT, QUIC – All on the run from micromanagement
There’s an emerging pattern in the broadcast industry and beyond; when we want the best out of a network, we don’t turn to TCP. Imagine …
SMPTE ST 2022-7: When good things hide behind bad names.
It’s really useful, widely applicable and almost essential for broadcast workflows…yet it lurks anonymously inside a set of almost unrelated standards. If I told you …
RIST – Reliable Internet Streaming Transport. Sounds good! Tell me more…
RIST overcomes the propensity of the internet to lose packets. It makes possible very-high-bandwidth, low-latency contribution over the internet into a studio or directly into the cloud as part of a streaming workflow. Here we delve deeper and find some talks which explain more.
Why is Low-Latency Streaming Hard?
The streaming industry is on an ever-evolving quest to reduce latency to bring it in line with, or to beat linear broadcast. When streaming started, …
5G – Beyond the Hype
Who’s fed up with the 5G sensationalism and clichés? You only have to dig a little below the headlines to start understanding what 5G really is and actually delivers. In fact, that’s exactly what we’ll do right now:
VVC – MPEG’s new codec
VVC is here to replace HEVC. Named Versatile Video Codec it does more than ‘just’ a 50% bitrate improvement over H.265. This article looks at the details.