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A 6-post collection

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Evaluation of Buffering Events on Android devices

Like many others, you probably hate when your video stream is interrupted. Or even worse, when you need to get up from your couch to check if you have issues with your internet connection. It’s frustrating to watch the buffering circle and wait till... »

Konstantinos Kosmidis Konstantinos Kosmidis on buffering, buffer, typology, classifier, android, video, parametres 16 March 2022

The Showmax Engineering story, Part III.

Delivering content securely, with best possible user experience

On the Showmax Engineering blog, we try to explain solutions to a pretty specific problem: how to deliver a high quality video streaming in Africa. To make our stories more intelligible, we started the series The Showmax engineering story, with the... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on encoding, vocabulary, video, topology, CDN, DRM, bandwidth, watermarking, QoE, bitrate 17 February 2022

Delivering content the right way, Part III.

Serving content from multiple CDNs

It’s a challenge to provide a top tier video streaming service across Africa. Quality internet networks are few and far between, server locations are often not ideal (we need to connect very distant countries), peering points are limited, and every... »

Pavel Švejda Pavel Švejda on cdn, automation, video 02 December 2021

Delivering content the right way, Part II.

Less painful content reshuffling

Here at Showmax, it’s not all about using third party CDNs. We have our own servers for serving content as well, so the constant question is: “How do we balance all the traffic?” In the past, we used a solution with modulo. To use modulo, we converted... »

Pavel Švejda Pavel Švejda on cdn, automation, video 24 August 2021

Delivering content the right way, Part I.

Selecting the right URL

Video on Demand (VOD) platforms usually support a wide range of devices. Despite the attempts to unify streaming protocols, DRMs, and other parts of the tech stack, it’s almost impossible to have only one playlist/manifest that fits everyone. The... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on cdn, automation, video 09 June 2021

The Showmax Engineering story, Part II.

Getting content to the customer as efficiently as possible

On our blog we usually discuss our work in pretty in-depth terms, or terms that we set on our own. At times, we may speak a language that is unfamiliar, or even unintelligible, to some people. So, we decided to put together a vocabulary resource to... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on encoding, vocabulary, video 14 April 2021
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