Promising to simplify programming, improve resilience and redundancy, Microservices have been moving into the media and broadcast space for several years now adopted by names such as EVS and Imagine Communications as well as being the focus of a joint project between SMPTE, EBU and Open Services Alliance. Microservices are individual, independent programs that talk…
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 with the beam in the TV. Naturally, when you want to bring more than one camera together, you need to make sure all the cameras are in the same point…
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 to the video services industrypromoting interoperability by contributing to and supporting development of standards by national and international standards bodies What this meant is that they worked together with a…
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 people universally enjoy watching ads, but a lot of money goes in to producing them and delivering them because of how important it is to serve ads. Just like adverts…
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 contribution. Created by Haivision and now an open-source technology with an IETF draft spec, the alliance of SRT users continues to grow as the technology continues to develop and add…
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 a boss who stood over you ensuring every email you send got a reply. Imagine a boss who would stop you sending any more emails if the replies to your…
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 I had a great idea for seamlessly allowing a decoder to switch between two paths, meaning that you could suffer packet loss and still, without anyone noticing a thing, keep…
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.
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, latency of a minute or more was not uncommon and whilst there are some simple ways to improve that, matching the latency of digital TV, around 5 seconds, is not…
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: