In the EU-funded R&D project 5G-VICTORI we aim to improve the availability and quality of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming services (such as “Mediathek”) for train passengers. In a series of articles we want to keep you informed about our activities in this area. In this article we explain the technical approaches we are investigating. How can …
For the growing popularity of video streaming in OTT services, multi-sourced caching solutions can reduce costs, improve performance and avoid vendor lock-in. Data traffic of ARD and ZDF for streaming audio and video content has grown rapidly during the last years. This trend will enforce with the shift from classic linear TV to VoD streaming …
IP-based broadcast production has long been a hype. Now it is becoming a reality with more and more equipment on the market. But users need interoperable standardized products they can trust. So IRT’s goal is to support the broadcasting market to develop and offer such IP-based products. The technologies required for this, e.g. SMPTE ST …
Radio is going digital – slowly but steadily. Currently, this happens in two different worlds: One is DAB(+) and the other is IP streaming. DAB(+) is a sophisticated and efficient broadcast standard with many clearly specified add-on functionalities – but it does not support personalisation of its services as is. In contrast, IP-based radio services …
Users of media platforms are used to watch high quality video content over the internet, since many media platforms emerged that deliver high quality video content anytime, anywhere and on any device with intuitive applications. These platforms, like YouTube, Netlifx or Facebook have set the standard of video streaming very high. And this high standard …
This is a quick test, if the YouTube Cloud Transcoder supports MXF-Contribution Quality for high quality uploads as it is used within ARD and ZDF. For a broadcaster it can be desirable to upload their productions in high quality to cloud-based video-portals like YouTube without any further recompression to maintain quality and save processing costs. …
IRT opened an extensive repository of differently encoded Audio- and Videostreams for PC, Smartphones, Tablets and HbbTV-Devices. Launch the Testportal http://avtest.irt.de Various test cases are presented in a user interface as progressive download and adaptiv for MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS and Adobe HDS in multiple encodings (H.264, H.265, HE/AAC, E/AC3), container formats (MP4, MPEG-TS) and resolutions …
