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bitmovin.com
Company blog · bitmovin.com/blog · on HN as sledererwebprogramming
bitmovin.com is the company blog at bitmovin.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2016, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 165 times, most often “First Livestream using Google's new AV1 video codec”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Bitmovin's blog and demo pages cover video codecs, mainly AV1 encoding speed, live streaming, and per-title encoding. HN commenters cite its articles as benchmarks and evidence in codec debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- First Livestream using Google's new AV1 video codec3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-18
- Cool New Video Tools: Five Encoding Advancements Coming in AV13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-02
- HEVC H265 and VP9 Comparison3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-07
- Why Structured Concurrency Matters3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
- Multi-Codec DASH Dataset: An Evaluation of AV1, AVC, HEVC and VP92 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-24
- Google added HEVC support in Chrome2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- Everything you need to know about Apple’s new Managed Media Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-21
- Bitmovin Improves Support AV1 Video Encoding for VoD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-18
- VP9 vs. H264 and Other Codecs » How It Fares Against Competition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-22
- Advocating for More Unlicensed Spectrum Allocations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-05
What Hacker News says?
Bitmovin and Mozilla recently also did a Webinar about AV1: https://bitmovin.com/an-introduction-to-av1/
Comment linking /an-introduction-to-av1/
on “AV1: A new general-purpose video codec”Submitted Google added HEVC support in Chrome as a story · 250 points
HN discussionIt can take an enormous amount of compute power to encode 4k video at 1:1 speed with these more complex codecs. Multiply for multiple bitrates and resolutions. If you can't encode at 1:1, you add significant delays to 'live' streaming, thus making it not 'live'. Case in point, a 40 second 1080p clip would take over 8 hours to encode on an i7-4800 - that's less than 2 frames per minute . You need a lot of horsepower…
Comment linking /bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live-joins-alliance-open-media/
on “AV1: A new general-purpose video codec”Submitted Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5 as a story · 215 points
HN discussionBitmovin produced an AV1 live stream a year ago using 200 cores: https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live... And six months ago they had improved on that to do live streaming with 32 cores: https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis... Twitch wants to use AV1 for live streaming. Here's a talk on the "switching frame" feature of AV1 for use in live streaming: https://www.youtube.…
Comment linking /constantly-evolving-video-landscape-display-ibc-2017/
on “AV1: A new general-purpose video codec”Submitted The State of AV1 Playback Support as a story · 135 points
HN discussionBitmovin's comparison: https://bitmovin.com/av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/ MSU's comparison: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New... x265 complained about the recent MSU test: http://www.x265.org/x265-incorrectly-represented-msus-2017-c... But equally x265 likes to refer to MSU comparisons when the results make x265 look good: http://www.x265.org/ An x265 post referencing another paper which s…
Comment linking /av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/
on “AV1: A new general-purpose video codec”Submitted Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum as a story · 105 points
HN discussion> Even to this day I still do not believe Apple will support AV1 decode, at least not until Google forced the AV1 usage. Even though they joined AOM four years ago: * https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/04/3-reasons-apple-just-join... * https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/04/apple-joins-allia... * https://bitmovin.com/apple-joins-av1-codec-consortium/ * https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...
Comment linking /apple-joins-av1-codec-consortium/
on “H.264 is Magic (2016)”Submitted Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome as a story · 17 points
HN discussionBITMOVIN - https://bitmovin.com/careers/ Bitmovin provides API based Software that helps developers around the world to solve the most complex video problems with a video player library that plays everywhere. Come join the team building innovative online video software for developers and content owners worldwide! We are hiring different roles in different regions: - Senior Product Manager - US/Europe - Account Execu…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted First Livestream using Google's new AV1 video codec as a story · 15 points
HN discussionbitmovin (YC S15) is hiring engineers, solution architects, account executives, marketing people and a director sales. Check out the details at https://bitmovin.com/jobs/
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Bitmovin Raises $10.3M Series A as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt's true that the encoder is very slow at the moment, but it's also true that Bitmovin managed to produce a live AV1 stream 9 months ago: https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live... They also have an AV1 demo page which works with Firefox Nightly: http://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/
Comment linking /bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live-joins-alliance-open-media/
on “The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won”Submitted Google Is Deprecating the Widevine DRM CDM as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBitmovin | San Francisco / Austria / Berlin / Chicago | ONSITE | Full Time Bitmovin creates tools for developers to add video support to their applications. We just raised a Series B of $30M ( https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/09/bitmovin/ ) and are quickly growing the team. Too many roles to list them all here, but I'll highlight a few that I'm hiring for personally: * Developer Evangelist (SF) https://bitmovin.com/ca…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted A Tale of Two AI Failures: Debugging a Simple Bug with LLMs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionBitmovin produced an AV1 live stream a year ago using 200 cores: https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live... And six months ago they had improved on that to do live streaming with 32 cores: https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis... So I'll be interested to read about any live streaming demos they do at NAB in the next couple of weeks.
Comment linking /constantly-evolving-video-landscape-display-ibc-2017/
on “AV1 Release”Submitted Advocating for More Unlicensed Spectrum Allocations as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBitmovin's comparison: https://bitmovin.com/av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/ MSU's comparison from a couple of months ago: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New... The x265 guys complained about the recent MSU test: http://www.x265.org/x265-incorrectly-represented-msus-2017-c...
Comment linking /av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/
on “AV1 Release”Submitted Video Infrastructure as a Service – The Bitmovin API as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLast year Bitmovin demonstrated a live 1080p AV1 stream using 32 cores: https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis... Twitch wants to use AV1 for their streaming. They want to use the switching frame feature of AV1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o And the chroma from luma feature of AV1 works well on video game content: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/av1/demo1.shtml https://www.…
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on “Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web”Submitted Testing h.266/VVC performance and quality vs. h.265/HEVC using VTM as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis page implies that the grain synthesis step is informed by analysis of the grain in the uncompressed video: https://bitmovin.com/cool-new-video-tools-five-encoding-adva... That is confirmed by this article: https://jmvalin.ca/papers/AV1_tools.pdf
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on “Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web”Submitted Apple AV1 support: Details from iPhone15 event, hls-interest group, WebKit blog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHEVC is in the VP9 generation of codecs. https://bitmovin.com/vp9-vs-hevc-h265/ Many SoCs support hardware acceleration for VP9 decoding. http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/socs
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on “Google added HEVC support in Chrome”Submitted Fun with Container Formats as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWebP remains fairly esoteric after 15 years, has always been a solution in search of a problem, and isn’t even universally supported in products by its owner. AV1 was created and is backed by many companies via a non-profit industry consortium, solves real problems, and its momentum continues to grow. https://bitmovin.com/blog/av1-playback-support/
Comment linking /blog/av1-playback-support/
on “Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)”Submitted How to develop a dashboard with React/Redux as a story · 5 points
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