Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company which provides services that

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digital video and audio to streaming formats using

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, and streaming media players. Founded in 2013, the Austrian company contributes to MPEG-DASH, an

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that allows streaming video to be played in

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and

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players.

History

Bitmovin was founded in 2013 after research and standardization in the area of MPEG-DASH at the University of Klagenfurt. In 2014 the company secured an investment round with the venture capital fond Speedinvest and Constantia Industries. In 2014, the company was part of the top 100 companies in online media. Bitmovin is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash and contributes to the standardization at

MPEG The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and fi ...

, DASH-IF,

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, etc. In 2015, Bitmovin participated in the

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program.

Products

The company provides the cloud-based transcoding service bitcodin, which increases the efficiency of transcoding by using

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, and also enables transcoding of ultra-high definition video. The company also created the HTML5 and Flash-based Web player bitdash which can be used in

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s on desktop computers and

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s. This player supports the streaming and playback of MPEG-DASH or Apple's

HTTP Live Streaming HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2009. Support for the protocol is widespread in media players, web browsers, mobile devices, and ...

, using either the HTML5 Media Source Extensions or Flash, depending on the platform. DRM is enabled through the usage of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions as well as Flash. It is compatible to tools such as x264 or MP4Box.

Usage

* Live or on-demand transcoding of video or audio streaming to HLS,

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and DASH * Web-based players for streaming for HLS,

and DASH content in

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* Streaming of DRM protected content in

References

{{Reflist Streaming software Streaming media systems Media servers Internet properties established in 2013