Extending the life of H.264
With all the excitement around next-generation codecs, H.264 is supported ubiquitously across the device ecosystem and is still the dominant codec used by more than 80% of streaming services today. In this episode, Mark and Dror talk with Avisar Ten-Ami who is Vice President, Video Delivery Platform at Discovery, Josh Barnard, Technical Director at iStreamPlanet, and Pankaj Topiwala, CEO of FastVDO about what they are doing to wring the maximum benefit out of H.264. You'll want to hear their thoughts on Content-Adaptive Encoding technologies, the role of the network in improving video performance, and their perspectives on why as exciting as new royalty-free codecs are to the industry they are still a long way out from commercial deployment. This is the ultimate "video insider" edition. You will want to listen all the way to the end so that you are sure to get all the insights that were shared by these legendary video experts.