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Enhancing Video Quality with Bitmovin's Real-Time Stream Monitoring

Monitor Playback Quality in Real Time

Bitmovin's Real-Time Stream Monitoring solution allows you to monitor the playback quality of your live and on-demand streams in real-time. By proactively identifying and solving issues quickly, you can ensure that your content always performs at its best, providing viewers with a seamless experience.

Customizable Monitoring Dashboard

With Bitmovin's customizable monitoring dashboard, you can easily set up, track, view, and filter through vital metrics of your video streams. This dashboard, coupled with Bitmovin's API set and pre-integrated data platforms, gives you the flexibility to tailor your monitoring to suit your specific needs and preferences.

Maintain Stream Uptime and Stability

By using Bitmovin's Real-Time Stream Monitoring, you can spot issues and identify their root causes quickly. This proactive approach helps minimize the impact on your viewers by ensuring stream uptime and stability. Understanding real-time viewership and demand on your infrastructure allows you to optimize resource allocation and deliver a consistently high-quality viewing experience.

Monitoring Dashboard for Operations Room

Bitmovin's monitoring dashboard enables you to display essential data points across your network operations center, keeping your operations team informed about how your streams are performing. This real-time visibility empowers your team to take immediate action when needed, maintaining the quality and stability of your video streams.

Support for Various Video Players

Bitmovin Analytics supports video players on all devices, ensuring that you can monitor and analyze every play across multiple players. Whether you are using Bitmovin Player, Amazon IVS, AVPlayer, Media 3 & ExoPlayer, Roku Native Player, Shaka Player, HLS.js, Video.js, HTML5 Video Element, or Dash.js, Bitmovin's Real-Time Stream Monitoring has got you covered.

Built for Developers

Bitmovin's Real-Time Stream Monitoring solution is designed by and for developers, providing developer resources to help you get started quickly. With APIs and documentation to facilitate easy integration, developers can seamlessly incorporate Bitmovin's monitoring capabilities into their existing workflows. The platform also offers code samples and a developer community for additional support.

Integrate with Data Infrastructure

Bitmovin's Analytics seamlessly integrates into your data architecture, allowing you to use query APIs and data exports to access and connect data to your preferred data platform. Whether you are using Bitmovin's Dashboard, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, Looker Studio, Grafana, Snowflake, or other platforms, you can effortlessly push and analyze data for informed decision-making.

Enhanced Features and Capabilities

In addition to Real-Time Stream Monitoring, Bitmovin offers various enhanced features like Video Stream Error Tracking, Open Source & Native Player Collectors, and AI Session Interpreter. These features enable you to easily find and track streaming issues, monitor playback events on a wide range of players, and analyze viewer sessions with advanced AI for actionable insights and recommendations.

Case Study: DStv

Multichoice leveraged Bitmovin's technology to enhance the performance of its OTT service, DStv Now. By implementing Bitmovin's managed service, Multichoice was able to launch a new streaming infrastructure, player, and analytics setup efficiently. This resulted in reduced startup times for videos, providing customers with a high-quality viewing experience they expect and deserve.

Enhancing Content Security with Bitmovin's Streams Content Protection

Signed URL’s for Enhanced Content Protection

Bitmovin's Streams Content Protection offers a robust solution for securely streaming live and on-demand videos while maintaining control over viewer access. One of the key features provided is Signed URL’s, which plays a crucial role in controlling who is able to view your video content. By generating time-limited links, content creators can ensure that only authorized viewers have access to the content. This feature empowers users to customize viewer permissions, set specific validity periods for each URL, and seamlessly secure their content on the Streams platform.

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Enhancing Ad Engagement with AI Contextual Advertising by Bitmovin

Introduction to AI Contextual Advertising

Bitmovin's AI Contextual Advertising offers a cutting-edge solution for streaming platforms to elevate ad engagement and revenue generation. This innovative technology is meticulously crafted to cater to both live and VOD streaming scenarios. By utilizing the power of AI through Bitmovin's VOD and Live Encoders, the system processes video, audio, and textual content in real-time. The extracted contextual data is then seamlessly integrated with the Bitmovin Player, enabling it to request ads that are highly relevant to the current on-screen content. The primary aim of this technology is to align advertisement content with the viewers' interests, thus significantly enhancing engagement and overall user experience.

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Enhancing Viewer Experience with Bitmovin's Game Consoles SDK

Customization and Stability for Game Consoles

Bitmovin's Game Consoles SDK offers developers the ability to customize and ensure the best possible viewing experience for their audiences on game consoles. With the Web SDK tailored for game consoles, developers can guarantee stability and adaptability to different console specifications, providing seamless playback support for various content formats. Through daily tests on popular consoles like PS5 and Xbox, Bitmovin ensures that the player performs optimally, with over 1000 tests performed daily to maintain stability and reliability.

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Unlocking the Future of Video Streaming with Bitmovin's Video AI Solutions

Revolutionizing Video Streaming with AI and Machine Learning

Bitmovin, in collaboration with ATHENA, has been at the forefront of researching the transformative applications of AI and machine learning in video streaming. This innovative approach not only enhances the quality of experience (QoE) for consumers but also offers cost-efficient and eco-friendly solutions for streaming providers. The utilization of AI opens up a realm of possibilities, from enhancing visual quality and upscaling older content to optimizing video processing for adaptive bitrate (ABR) switching.

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Enhancing Live Streaming Experiences with Bitmovin's Live Encoder

Bitmovin Live Encoder Features

Bitmovin's Live Encoder provides a comprehensive solution for delivering resilient and consistent high-quality live streaming experiences. With the ability to ingest RTMP/s, SRT, or Zixi inputs, users can generate packaged HLS and DASH outputs ensuring scalable and high-quality delivery across various devices and platforms. The Live Encoder supports event-based and 24/7 live streaming, enabling users to effortlessly stream live events or user-generated content. Moreover, with SCTE-35 support and integrated partner solutions, customers can effectively monetize their live content, thereby transforming broadcasts into profitable revenue streams. Bitmovin's Live Encoder also offers multi-codec support, including H.264, H.265 (HEVC), and VP9, as well as out-of-the-box Multi-DRM integrations.

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