6Compression for Video-on-Demand Delivery

At this stage, we don’t think we need to sell you on the idea that video is a major part of the online experience. Once video moved from a plug-in experience, with technologies such as QuickTime and Flash, to a more native interactive experience with HTML5, things began changing rapidly. Add to this the rise of mobile video usage and the birth of video-game broadcasting, and we now have a plethora of types of video online for anyone to consume on virtually any device.

The State of Online Video

The general populace made a mental shift to online video being a viable replacement for traditional broadcast solutions around 2017. Now, that is not to say many early adopters weren’t already using over-the-top ...

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