In this episode we host Jeremy Toeman, Founder of Aug X Labs. Aug X Labs automatically creates videos based on audio content (such as podcasts), by analyzing the audio and matching videos from the user's own collection, public images & videos, and generative media. Jeremy shares his unique method of using "scrimmages" to prototype products and exercise team and company skills, and outlines a future vision where the platform will make recommendations to users regarding the video content based on defined goals such as maximizing conversion rates and other metrics.

Stef van der Ziel, who pioneered live video over the Internet by streaming a rock concert in 1994, tells the story of Jet-Stream, which evolved from those early trials to be a leading European video technology provider with its own high-performance and GDPR-compliant streaming cloud.

Paul Markham, Enterprise Architect for Digital at Arqiva, takes us on a journey from the early days of FTPing files for DAB Radio and the initial release of BBC's iPlayer to the current migration of broadcast workflows to the cloud. Along the way we discuss a variety of topics including device fragmentation, software engineering, agile, diversity and innovation.

In this episode we host Tsahi Levent-Levi, Founder of BlogGeek.me and CPO of Spearline. We talk about the protocols and codecs used by Zoom, Teams and Meet, how to achieve the best video quality with WebRTC, and how WebAssembly, WebCodecs and WebTransport are "unbundling" WebRTC.

In this episode we host Jim Jachetta, CTO of VidOvation, a leading provider of wired and wireless video distribution systems for broadcast television. We talk about how cellular bonding and 5G technology enable new content experiences, and change the way complex sports productions such as the PGA Golf tournament are produced and delivered.

Guido Meardi, CEO and Co-Founder of V-Nova, talks about the process of standardizing his company's proprietary technology in MPEG, how the market is adopting this standard, and some of the future applications of the technology.

In this episode we host Dom Robinson, Founder of the GreeningOfStreaming organization, for a passionate discussion on the enormous environmental impact of the video streaming industry, how it can be measured, and what can be done to reduce it.

Ramzi Khsib, Principal Software Engineer at AWS Elemental, shares his thoughts on the current state and future outlook for video codecs. We talk about market adoption of AVC, HEVC, VVC and AV1, content-adaptive encoding, implementations in HW vs. SW, and how the compression efficiency of existing codecs can be improved with machine learning tools.

In this episode we host Jonas Birmé, VP R&D at Eyevinn Technology, a leading streaming consultancy. Jonas shares his takeaways from the Streaming Media Sweden conference, and explains how WebRTC can be used for interactive streaming based on the proposed WHIP and WHPP protocols.

In this episode we host Daniel Silhavy, Project Manager at Fraunhofer FOKUS and lead developer of dash.js. We talk about the latest developments in MPEG-DASH and the dash.js reference player implementation, including MPD patching, multi-period playback and Common Media Client Data (CMCD). We also discuss the 5G-MAG reference implementation for media streaming and broadcast over 5G, and how it enables combining broadcast streams with unicast streams for applications such as personalized advertising, multi-lingual support and multiple camera angles.

Nicolas Weil, who won first prize in the Mile High Video Best Blog Award, shares with us some of the highlights of his winning post "Core Technologies for Streaming Workflows in 2021 and Beyond". We discuss the latest trends in low-latency protocols, content protection and multicast, and debate whether standardization and innovation are friends or foes.

In this episode we host Yair Adato, Co-Founder and CTO of Bria, a super startup that is building an AI-based platform for generating media assets from scratch. Yair walks us through the company's roadmap, from the current Beta version that enables changing the appearance and expression of people, removing the background and animating still images, to the ultimate goal of generating full videos from text descriptions alone.

How can pure OTT providers collaborate with ISPs, MSOs and Telcos to guarantee QoS and reduce delivery costs? In this episode we host Xavier Leclercq, VP Business Development at Broadpeak, for a deep-dive discussion on two of the hottest trends in video streaming: Open Caching for VoD delivery, and Multicast ABR for Live.

In this episode we host Ali Begen, Professor of Computer Science at Ozyegin University, consultant to Comcast, and key member of JPEG, MPEG and DASH-IF. We talk about the pros and cons of scaleable video coding, enabling low-latency streaming with chunked encoding and chunked delivery, preventing stalls using adaptive playback, and using information from the server to ensure that this technique is only applied for "suitable" content.

Eric Tang, Founder & CTO of Livepeer, presents his vision for reducing live video transcoding costs by 10x using a decentralized network of GPU HW encoders powered by open source software, and discusses how FFMpeg can be used to do real-time content classification on the same GPUs.

In this episode we host Yurong Jiang, Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Yurong outlines LinkedIn's architecture for handling video clips and for live video broadcast, and explains how latency is measured and reduced across their live video workflow.

The Video Insiders podcast is celebrating 70(!) episodes with a very special guest - Jan Ozer, codec and streaming expert for the past 30 years. We talk about the technical merits of the various codecs, what will influence their adoption across web browsers, mobile devices and TVs, and what the future holds for AI-based codecs.

Loke Dupont, Solution Architect at TV 2 in Denmark shares with us the technical details of their broadcast and OTT video workflows for Live and VoD, and outlines the unique method they've developed to shorten the Live-to-VoD turnaround time from 15 minutes to just one minute. We also discuss multi-CDN strategies, in-stream switching scenarios, player development and stream quality monitoring.

In this episode we host Ryan Jespersen, Chief Revenue Officer of Millicast, and a true Evangelist of WebRTC. Ryan shares his vision for the future of low-delay interactive streaming applications that can scale to millions of users, based on WebRTC and the new IETF WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol (WHIP).

Michael Schapira, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Compira Labs, describes the technology they developed for optimizing the quality of experience in video streaming, which is based on Michael's academic research as Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michael also shares some insightful industry insights from Compira's video streaming survey regarding the amount of streaming that happens on mobile vs. fixed networks, and the surprisingly low QoE that consumers get even on high-bandwidth connections.