When you subscribe to a VOD service, you expect the best visual quality possible. For our customers across Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s no different. But, in a region with developing infrastructure and expensive data, OTT services like ours face an inevitable... »
We receive, process, and store A TON of video files, and we have different options when it comes to encoding. This post discusses some of the differences between hardware and software encoding, and some selected technology options for achieving the... »
This is the second (and final) part of our blog mini-series about boosting encoding speed. In the first part we wrote about how we managed to maximize the power of our encoding farm via parallelization of the encoding pipeline. Here, we will give you... »
Here at Showmax, we’re addicted to speed and performance. In this post, I’ll go through a few techniques we used to improve the speed of our encoding pipeline, maximize the computing power of our encoders, and shortening our encoding time. When it... »
In the third part of the this series, we explained how we trim our live video stream, troubleshoot the process (there was a lot of that!), and all of the other intricacies involved. In this post - the fourth and final in our live streaming series... »
This is the third in our series of articles about how we made a radical departure from video-on-demand to live streaming - and how we engineered the move from scratch to production in less than three months. This time, we’re focusing on video stream... »