OTT (“Over-The-Top”) streaming is popular, and its market share continues to grow rapidly. A growing number of consumers all over the world continue to flock towards OTT streaming platforms like Netflix. OTT providers work behind the scene, which makes superior streaming experiences possible. In this post, we talk about the top OTT streaming platforms. Subsequently, we explain the criteria to choose OTT providers. We wrap it all up with a comparison of the top OTT providers. What is an OTT Streaming Platform? OTT streaming refers to a relatively new approach to delivering video content to consumers. In the case of…
H.264 Advanced Video Coding: An overview
You'd have noticed that when you record or create a video, it is often of very high size. These files are called raw files, which are very large in size. These are further converted into relevant formats with the help of video codecs. This ensures that your video is compatible with all the different browsers and devices as they might support the different formats. One such video codec, which is being widely used is H.264 AVC. H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) is a well-known video codec. What exactly is it, and how does it work? How does it compare with…
Google Meet vs Zoom vs Microsoft Teams: Best Video Conferencing Tool For You
Amid the WFH setup and virtual schooling, demand for video solutions is higher than ever. As per a report, the global video conferencing market size is forecasted to reach $10.92 billion by 2027. Zoom has noticed a huge adoption rate with lockdown and possesses 49% of the worldwide market share. Zoom has seen the most generous year-on-year development of the relative multitude of platforms. Despite Microsoft Teams being top in 41 nations, it has a small worldwide market share of 15% only. However, it keeps on acquiring prominence with a 5% development from 2020. Google Meet is another close competitor…
Encoding vs Encryption : What Is The Difference And What They Mean For Video Streaming?
Encoding and encryption are two techniques that play a crucial role in the transmission, exchange, storage, and creation of digital content be it plain text or rich media. Encryption employs an algorithm that takes in either plain text or metadata of rich media and converts it into a pseudo-random string of hexadecimal called a hash. Hash is incomprehensible unless decrypted with a private key. Your passwords, credit card numbers, WhatsApp messages, and Facetime calls all are converted to a hash before being transmitted to the network. Encoding is required because the format you capture content in and the format…
eLearning Video Production: How To Create A Course Effectively
Nowadays, it’s easy to create content from your smartphone. Just hit the record button and you’re all set to upload it to any video streaming platform. Sounds easy, doesn’t it! But have you ever considered what differentiates quality content from others? There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes for eLearning video production, ranging from pre-production to final editing of the video. (more…)
What Is Video Encoding: Everything You Should Know!
In its raw or uncompressed form, the video can be quite heavy. It’s quite difficult to upload and share videos in their raw form. Also video streaming protocols are quite dependent on the type of device/browser where the video is playing. This is where video encoding comes into play. As the heavy raw files are compressed into a lighter version while maintaining most of the original quality and different protocols are encoded to adhere to the streaming protocols required. What is Video Encoding? Video encoding is basically the process of converting raw or uncompressed video files into the required format.…