Awesome Video

Contents

• Introduction
• Learning
  • Books
  • Reading
  • Talks Presentations Podcasts
• HLS
• DASH
• Kubernetes
• Encoding
  • AV1
  • HEVC
  • VP9
• Transport
  • RIST
  • RTMP
  • SRT
• Streaming Server and Storage
• Specs and Standards
  • Industry Forums
  • MPEG
• Players
  • Android
  • Chromecast
  • iOS tvOS
  • Roku
  • Smart TVs
  • Web
• FFMPEG
• Audio
• Subtitles and Captions
• Ads
• Vendors
  • Dolby
• QoE
• Tools
• DRM
• Testing
• Community
  • Conferences
  • Meet ups
  • Slack Groups
• CDN
• HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision

Introduction

What’s video?

• A short history of video coding – Video coding is an essential component of video streaming, digital TV, video chat and many other technologies. This presentation, an invited lecture to the US …
• Eyevinn/streaming-onboarding – New to streaming and don’t know where to start? This is the place for you! – Eyevinn/streaming-onboarding
• Video Streaming Cheatsheet – The Video Streaming Cheatsheet is a double sided page, suitable for printing, that contains common terminology used in the video streaming industry in a quick reference format
• leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction – A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding). – leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction

Learning

An awesome list of learning video streaming resources.

• 3 Cases from a Video Expert: Encoding Basics – Introduction
• Adding Alternate Media to a Playlist | Apple Developer Documentation –
• Back to Basics: Encoding Definition and Adaptive Bitrate –
• Creating A Production Ready Multi Bitrate HLS VOD stream – Peer5 P2P Docs – Peer5 documentation
• Creating a Master Playlist | Apple Developer Documentation –
• FFmpeg and how to use it wrong – I’ve been in the streaming media industry since 2008 and have seen a lot of misinformation regarding both FFmpeg and libx264. In this post I hope to help shed some light on what does and does…
• Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS – HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you’re building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the HLS standard in 2009, and it is the required streaming format for iOS devices. Since then, Android
• HLS Authoring Specification for Apple Devices | Apple Developer Documentation –
• HLS adaptive streaming tutorial with CloudFront & JW Player | Miracle Tutorials – A step-by-step HLS adaptive streaming tutorial with CloudFront & JW Player in two parts. It is easier than you think. This tutorial presumes you have
• HOW TO: View an HLS Stream in QuickTime or VLC – Softron Support Desk –
• How To Setup Nginx For HLS Video Streaming On Centos 7 – How to live stream videos with Nginx
• How video streaming works on the web: An introduction – Note: this article is an introduction to video streaming in JavaScript and is mostly targeted to web developers. A large part of the…
• HowVideo.works –
• Internet Video Streaming — ABR part 1 – Background
• Internet Video Streaming — ABR part 2 – Background
• Introduction to HTTP Live Streaming: HLS on Android and More – This article explains how HTTP Live Streaming works and demonstrates how to create an HLS player in Android.
• Live Playlist (Sliding Window) Construction | Apple Developer Documentation –
• Low Latency Live Streaming – Low Latency Live Streaming Apple LLHLS / CMAF Kevin Staunton-Lambert Solutions Architect R&D (July 2019) @kevleyski www.switch.tv
• OTT Content Delivery – Background
• OTT Content Delivery– Multi CDN – Background
• Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard – Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on –
• Server-less Video Backend – In this blog post by Jonas Rydholm Birmé he describes how a completely server-less video backend on AWS would look like.
• The structure of an MPEG-DASH MPD – The MPEG-DASH Media Presentation Description (MPD) is an XML document containing information about media segments, their relationships and information necessary to choose between them, and other metadata that may be needed by clients. In this post, I describe the most important pieces of the MPD, starting from the top level (Periods) and going to the bottom (Segments).
• Understanding the HTTP Live Streaming Architecture | Apple Developer Documentation –
• VOD2Live – VOD2Live Kevin Staunton-Lambert Solutions Architect R&D @kevleyski www.switch.tv
• Video Encoding — Compression and Resolutions – Written by: Boris Asadanin, Streaming Media Consultant at Eyevinn Technology
• Video Tensorflow – Using Tensorflow For Audience Measurement Kevin Staunton-Lambert Solutions Architect R&D @kevleyski www.switch.tv
• Video and containers – NALU, Annex B, and Start Codes
• Video on Demand Playlist Construction | Apple Developer Documentation –
• WebAssembly (Wasm) – WebAssembly (Wasm) On the Edge Kevin Staunton-Lambert Solutions Architect R&D @kevleyski www.switch.tv Wasm)
• WildFires – VOD2Live Kevin Staunton-Lambert Solutions Architect R&D @kevleyski Wild Fire! How video engineers can help save lives www.switch.tv
• alexgand/springer_free_books: Python script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine – Python script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine – alexgand/springer_free_books
• amiaopensource/cable-bible – A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual tech – amiaopensource/cable-bible
• bash scripts to create VOD HLS stream with ffmpeg almighty (tested on Linux and OS X) – bash scripts to create VOD HLS stream with ffmpeg almighty (tested on Linux and OS X) – README.md
• ffmpeg tutorial –
• leandromoreira/video-containers-debugging-tools – A set of command lines to debug video streaming files like mp4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), ts (MPEG-2 Part 1), fmp4 in Dash, HLS, or MSS, with or without DRM. – leandromoreira/video-containers-debugging-tools
• lhls-simple-live-platform – You can build your own live platform just wiring up some open source tools, this is a demo video of https://github.com/jordicenzano/lhls-simple-live-platform
• matmoi/create-DASH-HLS – A tutorial to generate fMp4 files compatible with dash and HLS – matmoi/create-DASH-HLS
• matmoi/create-DASH-HLS – A tutorial to generate fMp4 files compatible with dash and HLS – matmoi/create-DASH-HLS
• mofo7777/Stackoverflow – All source codes I’ve provided on stackoverflow as an answer, usually under tag ms-media-foundation. Mediafoundation, audio, video, 3D, decoder, encoder. – mofo7777/Stackoverflow
• nickdesaulniers/netfix – Let’s build a Netflix.

Books

Books on video streaming. NOTE: Books published more than 4-5 years ago may not be up to date on latest streaming tech.
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• Circles of Confusion – 2009-01-01. Roberts, Alan.
• Communicating Pictures – 2014-06-20 (1st Edition). Bull, David.
• Data Broadcasting: Understanding the ATSC Data Broadcast Standard – 2001-04-16 (1st Edition). Chernock, Richard; Crinon, Regis; Mick, John.
• Digital Television: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Principles of the DVB System – 1997-07-11. Benoit, Herve.
• Digital Television: Technology and Standards – 2007-09-17. Arnold, John; Frater, Michael; Pickering, Mark.
• Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces – 2012-02-07 (2nd Edition). Poynton, Charles.
• High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and Architectures (Integrated Circuits and Systems) – 2014-09-03. Budagavi, Madhukar; Sze, Vivienne; Sullivan, Gary.
• High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification (Signals and Communication Technology) – 2014-10-08. Wien, Mathias.
• Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards – 2002-12-31. Bosi, Marina; Goldberg, Richard.
• Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery – 2013-04-01. Ozer, Jan.
• The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard – 2010-04-23. Richardson, Iain.
• The MPEG Handbook – 2004-11-15 (2nd Edition). Watkinson, John.
• The MPEG-4 Book – 2002-07-20. Ebrahimi, Touradj; Pereira,…