Meet Playlist Delta Updates: a wiser way of managing big HLS playlists. A story of a single feature, from customer request to reality. 

Unified Streaming’s research and development division kept itself occupied with all sorts of projects this past year. In the streaming industry, just as it is in the R&D team at Unified Streaming, a big share of technological progress can be chalked up to collaboration.

Unified Streaming considers accessibility vital for streaming and good for people. We support this positive social initiative, so we make sure accessibility is simple to implement and deliver.

Video piracy’s a big, tricky thing for content creators, streaming platforms, and studios. Annually, the cost of imposters passing programming off as theirs can soar into the billions of dollars.

Immersive home entertainment tech: what’s not to love? You flop down on your sofa, fire up your device, and as the content plays, all sorts of good feelings come up.

At some point, everyone goes on a quest. And just like there’s all sorts of people, there’s all sorts of quests. Some people go on a quest to find love.

CMAF ingest is a collaboration between members of the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) and companies operating within the OTT industry.

To misquote Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, ​“It was the 147th of times, it was the 45th of times.”

Let’s explore what DTS audio means, how Unified Streaming integrates DTS audio, why DTS audio is crucial, and which benefits the unique combo of Unified and DTS gives to customers.

In streaming, there’s a simple relationship between quality and satisfaction. If the streaming quality is good, users are happy and don’t complain. But if the streaming quality is poor, users howl and head for the exits.

There are gobs of content out there. Even on a good day it’s hard to tell the difference between one gob of content and another gob. So how do you set your content apart?

Unified Virtual Channel debuted in Unified Streaming’s product portfolio in early 2023. Since then the company has enriched the product, adding more features and refining its operation. Frankly, industry interest in Unified Virtual Channel has been keen.

FAST channels. They’re getting front rows at trade shows. They’re getting bullet points at business meetings. They’re getting headlines and eyes on screens. Is the hype real?

Recently a major telco, a client we’ve worked with for years, brought a problem to our attention.

The other day, a peer in the streaming community reached out via our Unified Certified Slack channel (our forum for exchanging advice with our software course grads). He had a question about live transcribed subtitles.

If you’ve ever played the video game Grand Theft Auto, you’ve felt it. The thrill!

Issues pop up outta nowhere. They try to corner you. They try to kill your streaming workflow.

I sat at a café with my colleague Mark Ogle, senior staff engineer at Unified Streaming (and someone far smarter than I). Coffee was our drink. Unified Virtual Channel was our subject.

Do you know the phrase ​“cut to the chase”? It comes from early Hollywood. Movie execs said it, meaning, Let’s skip extra dialogue and go straight to the action. Like a chase scene. The saying caught on with the public. Now ​“cut to the chase” means ​“get to the point.”

Size. In tech, we deal with it daily. We’re growing our profits. The meeting’s going longer than expected. The client wants a short turnaround. Video streaming devs can relate. In particular, the size of language codes has been flummoxing some of you recently.

Let’s say you’re a content creator, a content owner, a broadcaster, or an OTT streaming service.You’ve got some programming that’s not pulling its weight. It just … sits there.

Now that you’ve got content, you want to stream it. But what else? Put in ads? Charge more for better quality? Create super-personalized experiences? How about this, though: how about . . . all of it?

We live in an extraordinary age. Even our grandparents are on TikTok! Social media platforms make it all so easy.

“Everyone’s talking about FAST channels.” That’s not quite true.

Our company uses Slack. I’m an active member of about 5 channels, where I post comments, replies, and emojis. My comments and replies are either jokes or attempts at jokes.

The term ​“Hyrum’s Law” was brought up in a tech standup meeting the other day. I think a developer said some customer had jerry-rigged our source code for some peculiar (and, only to my mind, evil) purpose. Then he said, ​“So, yeah — it’s basically a classic case of Hyrum’s Law.”

Children are often praised for ​“playing well with others.” That same quality prized in kids can pay off for OTT (over-the-top) video streaming companies.