27 November 2020
THEOplayer is the leading all-round Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV, OTT service providers,...
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18 November 2020
THEO Technologies enables Swisscom to launch its blue TV streaming service across Connected TVs using its Universal...
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12 October 2020
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on...
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01 October 2020
Established in 2003 the CSI awards are among the most prestigious and competitive technology awards in the industry,...
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24 September 2020
Apple’s HLS and MPEG-DASH are two of the most popular HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) protocols that have become the de...
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01 September 2020
In our previous blog posts we have discussed a number of different topics regarding Apple’s Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS)...
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06 August 2020
BitRate indica la velocidad a la que se entrega el contenido de video (o cualquier otro dato). Representa la cantidad...
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23 July 2020
As video streaming rises globally, the challenge is not only to get your content to your viewers’ screens, but also in...
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09 July 2020
In previous blogs we’ve covered how the LL-HLS spec has evolved and changed, as well as how it actually works. In this...
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01 July 2020
THEO Technologies and Synamedia form HESP Alliance to accelerate the roll-out of sub-second latency,...
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30 June 2020
To provide online video at scale, we use HTTP Adaptive Streaming Protocols such as HLS or MPEG-DASH, which are both...
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16 June 2020
HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS, was initially created and released by Apple in 2009 to solve the problems of scaling. The...
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16 June 2020
HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming, is an adaptive HTTP-based protocol and it was initially created and released by Apple in...
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18 May 2020
We are streaming more and higher quality video. Overall, time spent in viewing streaming video has increased rapidly to...
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27 April 2020
A recognizable issue with online video streaming is the frequency of loading spinners and its impact on viewer...
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16 April 2020
Amid the global circumstances today, video is providing the connections we need, now more than ever. While across the...
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08 April 2020
Live streamed events are generally delayed by 30 seconds or more compared to the traditional broadcast feed. This...
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19 March 2020
Our previous blog post, Basics of Video Encoding: Everything You Need to Know, we discussed the different aspects of...
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12 March 2020
Bitrate indicates the speed at which video content (or any other data) is delivered. It represents the amount of bits...
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11 March 2020
THEO Technologies announced that it raised $10M in a Series A funding round led by SmartFin Capital with participation...
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20 February 2020
What is video encoding? In simple terms, encoding is the process of compressing and changing the format of raw video...
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23 January 2020
The introductions of new online technologies have changed the landscape for advertisements and how they are used and...
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13 January 2020
Last Friday Apple announced an update of their Low Latency HLS specification. In the new update, Apple is stepping away...
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07 January 2020
Integrating accessibility features on the web is crucial to accommodating viewers with limitations, optimise the...
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19 December 2019
The video industry landscape is continuously evolving and innovating, and it’s important to keep up with the latest...
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19 December 2019
It's been a year filled with innovation, collaboration, development and accolades for THEO Technologies in 2019. Here...
Read more
05 December 2019
THEO's Resources is a collection of video-related content for those keen to learn more about all things video. The...
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21 November 2019
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winners were announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, California....
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15 November 2019
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies has won the 6th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award...
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12 November 2019
Streaming Media Europe announced Friday that THEOplayer won Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European Readers'...
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29 October 2019
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts...
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26 September 2019
With the introduction of digital television, zapping between different channels becomes noticeable. Where zapping...
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24 September 2019
THEO Technologies ranked the number 47 fastest-growing company on Deloitte 2018 Technology Fast 500 EMEA list.
Read more
05 September 2019
We compared the streaming bandwidth between the HESP and CMAF-CTE streams from the test setup. Bandwidths were measured...
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04 September 2019
In order to compare latency achievements of the HESP protocol, we designed a test scenario where HESP is compared with...
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28 August 2019
The media industry is constantly pushing to innovate in order to improve viewer experience in an attempt to attract and...
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21 June 2019
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we...
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18 December 2018
A thumbnail is a reduced size image of a specific frame which helps a viewer to seek to a specific event or scene in a...
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26 November 2018
For video engineers it is clear: The online video industry is evolving at an incredibly fast pace. During the last few...
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16 November 2018
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies won the 5th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award in...
Read more
15 November 2018
The 2018 Readers’ Choice Award winners have been announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach,...
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25 October 2018
THEO Technologies has been nominated for Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 50 competition for technology companies...
Read more
13 August 2018
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1...
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09 August 2018
Within our series of articles explaining the needs for, and ways to achieve low latency, we already discussed Chunked...
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06 August 2018
In the first part of this content series we discussed latency: what it is and why it is important, and we gave a...
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01 August 2018
When it comes to live video, it’s hard to deliver an actual, real live streaming experience. The latency problem is...
Read more
26 July 2018
We are thrilled to announce that THEOplayer has been nominated for 2018 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. This...
Read more
17 July 2018
At a time when the popularity of online video surges, so do online video ads. Advertisers found in video a new source...
Read more
19 June 2018
You might have noticed that lately, when you land on a website, your video starts playing without sound. This is the...
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01 June 2018
Did you know that a 7 seconds video start-up time can result in 50 percent of your audience giving up on playing the...
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27 April 2018
Audio is a key factor in visual media and can enhance or destroy your experience: good processed audio can, in fact,...
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29 March 2018
On March 13th we celebrated the official THEO Technologies' Open House at THEOplayer's HQ in Leuven, Belgium....
Read more
28 March 2018
NAB Las Vegas is just a few weeks away and this year THEOplayer will be exhibiting as World’s Best Online Video Player...
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09 March 2018
The last few months brought us a plethora of presentations, blogposts and articles (as you can read in our previous...
Read more
21 February 2018
The UK largest entertainment and media tech event, BVE, is about to kick off in London and THEOplayer will be one of...
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01 February 2018
Worldwide market research shows that 57% of consumers watch videos on one of the 3.1 billion mobile devices active...
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26 January 2018
With the 11.2 iOS release, Apple has enabled FairPlay DRM support for their Safari browsers on mobile devices by...
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25 January 2018
Telenet, the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, has opened its Head Quarters doors in Mechelen...
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20 December 2017
Antwerp, 17 November 2017 – THEO Technologies & Belgian’s leading HR service provider SD Worx received the award for...
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06 November 2017
The votes are in... THEOplayer is awarded as the Best Video Player Solution / SDK in the world during the Streaming...
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26 October 2017
AltitudeCDN™ and the Universal Player are mutually verified to operate seamlessly together as standard components of...
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27 September 2017
The following article provides an insight into the key technologies associated with video advertising and more...
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21 September 2017
THEOplayer has been awarded with the Best of Show award by TVB Europe at IBC 2017. The awards honour innovation and...
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31 August 2017
Integration of V-Nova PERSEUS™ 2 with THEOplayer Universal Player maximises picture quality across all HTML5 platform...
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24 August 2017
Quality Video for the 21st Century – H.264 & H.265 Video codecs serve one key task: reducing the byte size of videos...
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23 August 2017
Streaming Media announced today THEOplayer won for the 2nd time in a row Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European...
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24 May 2017
Why is Google Chromecast so popular with users and how can we work with it to optimize the viewer’s quality experience?...
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18 May 2017
THEOplayer and Vualto – recipe for successful collaboration The unfolding of THEOplayer’s success Vualto, a global...
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04 May 2017
What is picture-in-picture (PiP) and how can we use it to deliver a more engaging viewer experience when we combine...
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13 April 2017
What is the current state and future of VR and 360° video? On Tuesday April 11th, our CPO Maarten Tielemans presided...
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10 March 2017
Client-side ad insertion (CSAI) is one of the most used techniques for monetizing video content. With CSAI, ads are...
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27 February 2017
THEOplayer is proud to announce it is a nominee for this year’s Belgian Scale Up of the Year award. This award...
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07 December 2016
Steven Tielemans, the CEO and co-founder of THEOplayer, shares his view about the key trends in online video for 2017.
Read more
15 November 2016
THEOplayer has been named the Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the 2016 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Awards,...
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08 November 2016
In less than 1 month, on the 6th of December, Google will be releasing Chrome 55. From this version onward, continuing...
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03 November 2016
The first quarter of 2016 was another record-setting quarter for the online advertising industry, bringing in $15.9...
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27 October 2016
Deloitte just announced that THEOplayer is once again nominated in the Rising Star category of the Deloitte Technology...
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07 October 2016
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22 September 2016
Many major online content publishers are using a combination of both HLS and MPEG-DASH to reach their audience across...
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21 September 2016
Heading to Streaming Media West 2016? We look forward to seeing you in Huntington Beach!
Read more
14 September 2016
THEOplayer counts on you! Being nominated for the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, we look forward to seeing...
Read more
05 September 2016
The TV and broadcasting sector in the US has experienced quite a change in the last years. The FCC introduced new...
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25 August 2016
Leuven, Belgium. THEOplayer and Yospace, the industry leader in Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, have announced a...
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25 August 2016
The Challenges Of Video Advertising Today In today’s market, broadcasters, operators and online publishers are dealing...
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10 August 2016
To ensure consistent playback on all devices and platforms, many online video providers still rely on plugins such as...
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26 July 2016
Deliver world-class viewer experience without plugins. Key features of THEOplayer are: Adaptive playback of MPEG-DASH...
Read more
13 May 2016
It’s not a secret that Adobe Flash Player has recently seen some serious flaws and vulnerabilities affecting your...
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09 May 2016
As an online publisher there is certainly a large stock of videos that piles up in your system. Imagine your viewer...
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29 April 2016
55% of people watch their favorite movie or TV show online on tablet, laptop or TV every day. But what if you have to...
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28 April 2016
$9.14 billion. This is the estimated spending on online video advertising in the US alone and the trend for the coming...
Read more
26 April 2016
THEOplayer, a leader in HTML5 streaming technology, and Microsoft Azure Media Services announced their joint innovation...
Read more
06 April 2016
Welcome to Las Vegas! THEOplayer will present the latest features at the NAB Show 2016, April 18-21 in Las Vegas. Take...
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30 March 2016
The Canadian University of Manitoba and their staff and students have long time been struggling with their custom-made...
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15 March 2016
Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and some more search pages. Who does not know the feeling? Too many tabs...
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26 February 2016
“Wait… What did he just say?” This is a well-known problem for many of the 100 million people who watch online video...
Read more
05 February 2016
In this case study we will outline how and why the sports and technology company Hudl uses THEOplayer into their...
Read more
04 February 2016
The new year started exciting with a new major update of our fully HTML5 based video player THEOplayer. The 1.6 version...
Read more
02 February 2016
People love watching videos, but sometimes they don't have the time to watch a long video. They are looking for a...
Read more
21 January 2016
With the increase of piracy, protecting media content is one of the key concerns of many publishers. In this article,...
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13 January 2016
In 2015, 60 percent of people preferred video over reading text. It keeps visitors on your website and is more...
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27 November 2020
THEOplayer is the leading all-round Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV, OTT service providers,...
Read more
18 November 2020
THEO Technologies enables Swisscom to launch its blue TV streaming service across Connected TVs using its Universal...
Read more
12 October 2020
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on...
Read more
01 October 2020
Established in 2003 the CSI awards are among the most prestigious and competitive technology awards in the industry,...
Read more
24 September 2020
Apple’s HLS and MPEG-DASH are two of the most popular HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) protocols that have become the de...
Read more
01 September 2020
In our previous blog posts we have discussed a number of different topics regarding Apple’s Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS)...
Read more
06 August 2020
BitRate indica la velocidad a la que se entrega el contenido de video (o cualquier otro dato). Representa la cantidad...
Read more
23 July 2020
As video streaming rises globally, the challenge is not only to get your content to your viewers’ screens, but also in...
Read more
09 July 2020
In previous blogs we’ve covered how the LL-HLS spec has evolved and changed, as well as how it actually works. In this...
Read more
01 July 2020
THEO Technologies and Synamedia form HESP Alliance to accelerate the roll-out of sub-second latency,...
Read more
30 June 2020
To provide online video at scale, we use HTTP Adaptive Streaming Protocols such as HLS or MPEG-DASH, which are both...
Read more
16 June 2020
HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS, was initially created and released by Apple in 2009 to solve the problems of scaling. The...
Read more
16 June 2020
HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming, is an adaptive HTTP-based protocol and it was initially created and released by Apple in...
Read more
18 May 2020
We are streaming more and higher quality video. Overall, time spent in viewing streaming video has increased rapidly to...
Read more
27 April 2020
A recognizable issue with online video streaming is the frequency of loading spinners and its impact on viewer...
Read more
16 April 2020
Amid the global circumstances today, video is providing the connections we need, now more than ever. While across the...
Read more
08 April 2020
Live streamed events are generally delayed by 30 seconds or more compared to the traditional broadcast feed. This...
Read more
19 March 2020
Our previous blog post, Basics of Video Encoding: Everything You Need to Know, we discussed the different aspects of...
Read more
12 March 2020
Bitrate indicates the speed at which video content (or any other data) is delivered. It represents the amount of bits...
Read more
11 March 2020
THEO Technologies announced that it raised $10M in a Series A funding round led by SmartFin Capital with participation...
Read more
20 February 2020
What is video encoding? In simple terms, encoding is the process of compressing and changing the format of raw video...
Read more
23 January 2020
The introductions of new online technologies have changed the landscape for advertisements and how they are used and...
Read more
13 January 2020
Last Friday Apple announced an update of their Low Latency HLS specification. In the new update, Apple is stepping away...
Read more
07 January 2020
Integrating accessibility features on the web is crucial to accommodating viewers with limitations, optimise the...
Read more
19 December 2019
The video industry landscape is continuously evolving and innovating, and it’s important to keep up with the latest...
Read more
19 December 2019
It's been a year filled with innovation, collaboration, development and accolades for THEO Technologies in 2019. Here...
Read more
05 December 2019
THEO's Resources is a collection of video-related content for those keen to learn more about all things video. The...
Read more
21 November 2019
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winners were announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, California....
Read more
15 November 2019
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies has won the 6th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award...
Read more
12 November 2019
Streaming Media Europe announced Friday that THEOplayer won Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European Readers'...
Read more
29 October 2019
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts...
Read more
26 September 2019
With the introduction of digital television, zapping between different channels becomes noticeable. Where zapping...
Read more
24 September 2019
THEO Technologies ranked the number 47 fastest-growing company on Deloitte 2018 Technology Fast 500 EMEA list.
Read more
05 September 2019
We compared the streaming bandwidth between the HESP and CMAF-CTE streams from the test setup. Bandwidths were measured...
Read more
04 September 2019
In order to compare latency achievements of the HESP protocol, we designed a test scenario where HESP is compared with...
Read more
28 August 2019
The media industry is constantly pushing to innovate in order to improve viewer experience in an attempt to attract and...
Read more
21 June 2019
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we...
Read more
18 December 2018
A thumbnail is a reduced size image of a specific frame which helps a viewer to seek to a specific event or scene in a...
Read more
26 November 2018
For video engineers it is clear: The online video industry is evolving at an incredibly fast pace. During the last few...
Read more
16 November 2018
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies won the 5th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award in...
Read more
15 November 2018
The 2018 Readers’ Choice Award winners have been announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach,...
Read more
25 October 2018
THEO Technologies has been nominated for Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 50 competition for technology companies...
Read more
13 August 2018
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1...
Read more
09 August 2018
Within our series of articles explaining the needs for, and ways to achieve low latency, we already discussed Chunked...
Read more
06 August 2018
In the first part of this content series we discussed latency: what it is and why it is important, and we gave a...
Read more
01 August 2018
When it comes to live video, it’s hard to deliver an actual, real live streaming experience. The latency problem is...
Read more
26 July 2018
We are thrilled to announce that THEOplayer has been nominated for 2018 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. This...
Read more
17 July 2018
At a time when the popularity of online video surges, so do online video ads. Advertisers found in video a new source...
Read more
19 June 2018
You might have noticed that lately, when you land on a website, your video starts playing without sound. This is the...
Read more
01 June 2018
Did you know that a 7 seconds video start-up time can result in 50 percent of your audience giving up on playing the...
Read more
27 April 2018
Audio is a key factor in visual media and can enhance or destroy your experience: good processed audio can, in fact,...
Read more
29 March 2018
On March 13th we celebrated the official THEO Technologies' Open House at THEOplayer's HQ in Leuven, Belgium....
Read more
28 March 2018
NAB Las Vegas is just a few weeks away and this year THEOplayer will be exhibiting as World’s Best Online Video Player...
Read more
09 March 2018
The last few months brought us a plethora of presentations, blogposts and articles (as you can read in our previous...
Read more
21 February 2018
The UK largest entertainment and media tech event, BVE, is about to kick off in London and THEOplayer will be one of...
Read more
01 February 2018
Worldwide market research shows that 57% of consumers watch videos on one of the 3.1 billion mobile devices active...
Read more
26 January 2018
With the 11.2 iOS release, Apple has enabled FairPlay DRM support for their Safari browsers on mobile devices by...
Read more
25 January 2018
Telenet, the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, has opened its Head Quarters doors in Mechelen...
Read more
20 December 2017
Antwerp, 17 November 2017 – THEO Technologies & Belgian’s leading HR service provider SD Worx received the award for...
Read more
06 November 2017
The votes are in... THEOplayer is awarded as the Best Video Player Solution / SDK in the world during the Streaming...
Read more
26 October 2017
AltitudeCDN™ and the Universal Player are mutually verified to operate seamlessly together as standard components of...
Read more
27 September 2017
The following article provides an insight into the key technologies associated with video advertising and more...
Read more
21 September 2017
THEOplayer has been awarded with the Best of Show award by TVB Europe at IBC 2017. The awards honour innovation and...
Read more
31 August 2017
Integration of V-Nova PERSEUS™ 2 with THEOplayer Universal Player maximises picture quality across all HTML5 platform...
Read more
24 August 2017
Quality Video for the 21st Century – H.264 & H.265 Video codecs serve one key task: reducing the byte size of videos...
Read more
23 August 2017
Streaming Media announced today THEOplayer won for the 2nd time in a row Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European...
Read more
24 May 2017
Why is Google Chromecast so popular with users and how can we work with it to optimize the viewer’s quality experience?...
Read more
18 May 2017
THEOplayer and Vualto – recipe for successful collaboration The unfolding of THEOplayer’s success Vualto, a global...
Read more
04 May 2017
What is picture-in-picture (PiP) and how can we use it to deliver a more engaging viewer experience when we combine...
Read more
13 April 2017
What is the current state and future of VR and 360° video? On Tuesday April 11th, our CPO Maarten Tielemans presided...
Read more
10 March 2017
Client-side ad insertion (CSAI) is one of the most used techniques for monetizing video content. With CSAI, ads are...
Read more
27 February 2017
THEOplayer is proud to announce it is a nominee for this year’s Belgian Scale Up of the Year award. This award...
Read more
07 December 2016
Steven Tielemans, the CEO and co-founder of THEOplayer, shares his view about the key trends in online video for 2017.
Read more
15 November 2016
THEOplayer has been named the Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the 2016 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Awards,...
Read more
08 November 2016
In less than 1 month, on the 6th of December, Google will be releasing Chrome 55. From this version onward, continuing...
Read more
03 November 2016
The first quarter of 2016 was another record-setting quarter for the online advertising industry, bringing in $15.9...
Read more
27 October 2016
Deloitte just announced that THEOplayer is once again nominated in the Rising Star category of the Deloitte Technology...
Read more
07 October 2016
5 Ways Your Business Will Benefit From Our New Hassle-Free Licensing Plan I'm happy to announce that as of this week...
Read more
22 September 2016
Many major online content publishers are using a combination of both HLS and MPEG-DASH to reach their audience across...
Read more
21 September 2016
Heading to Streaming Media West 2016? We look forward to seeing you in Huntington Beach!
Read more
14 September 2016
THEOplayer counts on you! Being nominated for the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, we look forward to seeing...
Read more
05 September 2016
The TV and broadcasting sector in the US has experienced quite a change in the last years. The FCC introduced new...
Read more
25 August 2016
Leuven, Belgium. THEOplayer and Yospace, the industry leader in Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, have announced a...
Read more
25 August 2016
The Challenges Of Video Advertising Today In today’s market, broadcasters, operators and online publishers are dealing...
Read more
10 August 2016
To ensure consistent playback on all devices and platforms, many online video providers still rely on plugins such as...
Read more
26 July 2016
Deliver world-class viewer experience without plugins. Key features of THEOplayer are: Adaptive playback of MPEG-DASH...
Read more
13 May 2016
It’s not a secret that Adobe Flash Player has recently seen some serious flaws and vulnerabilities affecting your...
Read more
09 May 2016
As an online publisher there is certainly a large stock of videos that piles up in your system. Imagine your viewer...
Read more
29 April 2016
55% of people watch their favorite movie or TV show online on tablet, laptop or TV every day. But what if you have to...
Read more
28 April 2016
$9.14 billion. This is the estimated spending on online video advertising in the US alone and the trend for the coming...
Read more
26 April 2016
THEOplayer, a leader in HTML5 streaming technology, and Microsoft Azure Media Services announced their joint innovation...
Read more
06 April 2016
Welcome to Las Vegas! THEOplayer will present the latest features at the NAB Show 2016, April 18-21 in Las Vegas. Take...
Read more
30 March 2016
The Canadian University of Manitoba and their staff and students have long time been struggling with their custom-made...
Read more
15 March 2016
Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and some more search pages. Who does not know the feeling? Too many tabs...
Read more
26 February 2016
“Wait… What did he just say?” This is a well-known problem for many of the 100 million people who watch online video...
Read more
05 February 2016
In this case study we will outline how and why the sports and technology company Hudl uses THEOplayer into their...
Read more
04 February 2016
The new year started exciting with a new major update of our fully HTML5 based video player THEOplayer. The 1.6 version...
Read more
02 February 2016
People love watching videos, but sometimes they don't have the time to watch a long video. They are looking for a...
Read more
21 January 2016
With the increase of piracy, protecting media content is one of the key concerns of many publishers. In this article,...
Read more
13 January 2016
In 2015, 60 percent of people preferred video over reading text. It keeps visitors on your website and is more...
Read more
27 November 2020
THEOplayer is the leading all-round Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV, OTT service providers,...
Read more
18 November 2020
THEO Technologies enables Swisscom to launch its blue TV streaming service across Connected TVs using its Universal...
Read more
12 October 2020
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on...
Read more
01 October 2020
Established in 2003 the CSI awards are among the most prestigious and competitive technology awards in the industry,...
Read more
24 September 2020
Apple’s HLS and MPEG-DASH are two of the most popular HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) protocols that have become the de...
Read more
01 September 2020
In our previous blog posts we have discussed a number of different topics regarding Apple’s Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS)...
Read more
06 August 2020
BitRate indica la velocidad a la que se entrega el contenido de video (o cualquier otro dato). Representa la cantidad...
Read more
23 July 2020
As video streaming rises globally, the challenge is not only to get your content to your viewers’ screens, but also in...
Read more
09 July 2020
In previous blogs we’ve covered how the LL-HLS spec has evolved and changed, as well as how it actually works. In this...
Read more
01 July 2020
THEO Technologies and Synamedia form HESP Alliance to accelerate the roll-out of sub-second latency,...
Read more
30 June 2020
To provide online video at scale, we use HTTP Adaptive Streaming Protocols such as HLS or MPEG-DASH, which are both...
Read more
16 June 2020
HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS, was initially created and released by Apple in 2009 to solve the problems of scaling. The...
Read more
16 June 2020
HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming, is an adaptive HTTP-based protocol and it was initially created and released by Apple in...
Read more
18 May 2020
We are streaming more and higher quality video. Overall, time spent in viewing streaming video has increased rapidly to...
Read more
27 April 2020
A recognizable issue with online video streaming is the frequency of loading spinners and its impact on viewer...
Read more
16 April 2020
Amid the global circumstances today, video is providing the connections we need, now more than ever. While across the...
Read more
08 April 2020
Live streamed events are generally delayed by 30 seconds or more compared to the traditional broadcast feed. This...
Read more
19 March 2020
Our previous blog post, Basics of Video Encoding: Everything You Need to Know, we discussed the different aspects of...
Read more
12 March 2020
Bitrate indicates the speed at which video content (or any other data) is delivered. It represents the amount of bits...
Read more
11 March 2020
THEO Technologies announced that it raised $10M in a Series A funding round led by SmartFin Capital with participation...
Read more
20 February 2020
What is video encoding? In simple terms, encoding is the process of compressing and changing the format of raw video...
Read more
23 January 2020
The introductions of new online technologies have changed the landscape for advertisements and how they are used and...
Read more
13 January 2020
Last Friday Apple announced an update of their Low Latency HLS specification. In the new update, Apple is stepping away...
Read more
07 January 2020
Integrating accessibility features on the web is crucial to accommodating viewers with limitations, optimise the...
Read more
19 December 2019
The video industry landscape is continuously evolving and innovating, and it’s important to keep up with the latest...
Read more
19 December 2019
It's been a year filled with innovation, collaboration, development and accolades for THEO Technologies in 2019. Here...
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05 December 2019
THEO's Resources is a collection of video-related content for those keen to learn more about all things video. The...
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21 November 2019
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winners were announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, California....
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15 November 2019
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies has won the 6th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award...
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12 November 2019
Streaming Media Europe announced Friday that THEOplayer won Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European Readers'...
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29 October 2019
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts...
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26 September 2019
With the introduction of digital television, zapping between different channels becomes noticeable. Where zapping...
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24 September 2019
THEO Technologies ranked the number 47 fastest-growing company on Deloitte 2018 Technology Fast 500 EMEA list.
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05 September 2019
We compared the streaming bandwidth between the HESP and CMAF-CTE streams from the test setup. Bandwidths were measured...
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04 September 2019
In order to compare latency achievements of the HESP protocol, we designed a test scenario where HESP is compared with...
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28 August 2019
The media industry is constantly pushing to innovate in order to improve viewer experience in an attempt to attract and...
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21 June 2019
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we...
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18 December 2018
A thumbnail is a reduced size image of a specific frame which helps a viewer to seek to a specific event or scene in a...
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26 November 2018
For video engineers it is clear: The online video industry is evolving at an incredibly fast pace. During the last few...
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16 November 2018
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies won the 5th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award in...
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15 November 2018
The 2018 Readers’ Choice Award winners have been announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach,...
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25 October 2018
THEO Technologies has been nominated for Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 50 competition for technology companies...
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13 August 2018
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1...
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09 August 2018
Within our series of articles explaining the needs for, and ways to achieve low latency, we already discussed Chunked...
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06 August 2018
In the first part of this content series we discussed latency: what it is and why it is important, and we gave a...
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01 August 2018
When it comes to live video, it’s hard to deliver an actual, real live streaming experience. The latency problem is...
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26 July 2018
We are thrilled to announce that THEOplayer has been nominated for 2018 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. This...
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17 July 2018
At a time when the popularity of online video surges, so do online video ads. Advertisers found in video a new source...
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19 June 2018
You might have noticed that lately, when you land on a website, your video starts playing without sound. This is the...
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01 June 2018
Did you know that a 7 seconds video start-up time can result in 50 percent of your audience giving up on playing the...
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27 April 2018
Audio is a key factor in visual media and can enhance or destroy your experience: good processed audio can, in fact,...
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29 March 2018
On March 13th we celebrated the official THEO Technologies' Open House at THEOplayer's HQ in Leuven, Belgium....
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28 March 2018
NAB Las Vegas is just a few weeks away and this year THEOplayer will be exhibiting as World’s Best Online Video Player...
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09 March 2018
The last few months brought us a plethora of presentations, blogposts and articles (as you can read in our previous...
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21 February 2018
The UK largest entertainment and media tech event, BVE, is about to kick off in London and THEOplayer will be one of...
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01 February 2018
Worldwide market research shows that 57% of consumers watch videos on one of the 3.1 billion mobile devices active...
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26 January 2018
With the 11.2 iOS release, Apple has enabled FairPlay DRM support for their Safari browsers on mobile devices by...
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25 January 2018
Telenet, the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, has opened its Head Quarters doors in Mechelen...
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20 December 2017
Antwerp, 17 November 2017 – THEO Technologies & Belgian’s leading HR service provider SD Worx received the award for...
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06 November 2017
The votes are in... THEOplayer is awarded as the Best Video Player Solution / SDK in the world during the Streaming...
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26 October 2017
AltitudeCDN™ and the Universal Player are mutually verified to operate seamlessly together as standard components of...
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27 September 2017
The following article provides an insight into the key technologies associated with video advertising and more...
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21 September 2017
THEOplayer has been awarded with the Best of Show award by TVB Europe at IBC 2017. The awards honour innovation and...
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31 August 2017
Integration of V-Nova PERSEUS™ 2 with THEOplayer Universal Player maximises picture quality across all HTML5 platform...
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24 August 2017
Quality Video for the 21st Century – H.264 & H.265 Video codecs serve one key task: reducing the byte size of videos...
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23 August 2017
Streaming Media announced today THEOplayer won for the 2nd time in a row Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European...
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24 May 2017
Why is Google Chromecast so popular with users and how can we work with it to optimize the viewer’s quality experience?...
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18 May 2017
THEOplayer and Vualto – recipe for successful collaboration The unfolding of THEOplayer’s success Vualto, a global...
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04 May 2017
What is picture-in-picture (PiP) and how can we use it to deliver a more engaging viewer experience when we combine...
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13 April 2017
What is the current state and future of VR and 360° video? On Tuesday April 11th, our CPO Maarten Tielemans presided...
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10 March 2017
Client-side ad insertion (CSAI) is one of the most used techniques for monetizing video content. With CSAI, ads are...
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27 February 2017
THEOplayer is proud to announce it is a nominee for this year’s Belgian Scale Up of the Year award. This award...
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07 December 2016
Steven Tielemans, the CEO and co-founder of THEOplayer, shares his view about the key trends in online video for 2017.
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15 November 2016
THEOplayer has been named the Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the 2016 Streaming Media Europe Readers' Choice Awards,...
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08 November 2016
In less than 1 month, on the 6th of December, Google will be releasing Chrome 55. From this version onward, continuing...
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03 November 2016
The first quarter of 2016 was another record-setting quarter for the online advertising industry, bringing in $15.9...
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27 October 2016
Deloitte just announced that THEOplayer is once again nominated in the Rising Star category of the Deloitte Technology...
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07 October 2016
5 Ways Your Business Will Benefit From Our New Hassle-Free Licensing Plan I'm happy to announce that as of this week...
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22 September 2016
Many major online content publishers are using a combination of both HLS and MPEG-DASH to reach their audience across...
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21 September 2016
Heading to Streaming Media West 2016? We look forward to seeing you in Huntington Beach!
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14 September 2016
THEOplayer counts on you! Being nominated for the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards, we look forward to seeing...
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05 September 2016
The TV and broadcasting sector in the US has experienced quite a change in the last years. The FCC introduced new...
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25 August 2016
Leuven, Belgium. THEOplayer and Yospace, the industry leader in Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, have announced a...
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25 August 2016
The Challenges Of Video Advertising Today In today’s market, broadcasters, operators and online publishers are dealing...
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10 August 2016
To ensure consistent playback on all devices and platforms, many online video providers still rely on plugins such as...
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26 July 2016
Deliver world-class viewer experience without plugins. Key features of THEOplayer are: Adaptive playback of MPEG-DASH...
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13 May 2016
It’s not a secret that Adobe Flash Player has recently seen some serious flaws and vulnerabilities affecting your...
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09 May 2016
As an online publisher there is certainly a large stock of videos that piles up in your system. Imagine your viewer...
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29 April 2016
55% of people watch their favorite movie or TV show online on tablet, laptop or TV every day. But what if you have to...
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28 April 2016
$9.14 billion. This is the estimated spending on online video advertising in the US alone and the trend for the coming...
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26 April 2016
THEOplayer, a leader in HTML5 streaming technology, and Microsoft Azure Media Services announced their joint innovation...
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06 April 2016
Welcome to Las Vegas! THEOplayer will present the latest features at the NAB Show 2016, April 18-21 in Las Vegas. Take...
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30 March 2016
The Canadian University of Manitoba and their staff and students have long time been struggling with their custom-made...
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15 March 2016
Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and some more search pages. Who does not know the feeling? Too many tabs...
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26 February 2016
“Wait… What did he just say?” This is a well-known problem for many of the 100 million people who watch online video...
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05 February 2016
In this case study we will outline how and why the sports and technology company Hudl uses THEOplayer into their...
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04 February 2016
The new year started exciting with a new major update of our fully HTML5 based video player THEOplayer. The 1.6 version...
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02 February 2016
People love watching videos, but sometimes they don't have the time to watch a long video. They are looking for a...
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21 January 2016
With the increase of piracy, protecting media content is one of the key concerns of many publishers. In this article,...
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13 January 2016
In 2015, 60 percent of people preferred video over reading text. It keeps visitors on your website and is more...
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27 November 2020
THEOplayer is the leading all-round Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV, OTT service providers,...
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18 November 2020
THEO Technologies enables Swisscom to launch its blue TV streaming service across Connected TVs using its Universal...
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12 October 2020
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on...
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01 October 2020
Established in 2003 the CSI awards are among the most prestigious and competitive technology awards in the industry,...
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24 September 2020
Apple’s HLS and MPEG-DASH are two of the most popular HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) protocols that have become the de...
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01 September 2020
In our previous blog posts we have discussed a number of different topics regarding Apple’s Low Latency HLS (LL-HLS)...
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06 August 2020
BitRate indica la velocidad a la que se entrega el contenido de video (o cualquier otro dato). Representa la cantidad...
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23 July 2020
As video streaming rises globally, the challenge is not only to get your content to your viewers’ screens, but also in...
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09 July 2020
In previous blogs we’ve covered how the LL-HLS spec has evolved and changed, as well as how it actually works. In this...
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01 July 2020
THEO Technologies and Synamedia form HESP Alliance to accelerate the roll-out of sub-second latency,...
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30 June 2020
To provide online video at scale, we use HTTP Adaptive Streaming Protocols such as HLS or MPEG-DASH, which are both...
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16 June 2020
HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS, was initially created and released by Apple in 2009 to solve the problems of scaling. The...
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16 June 2020
HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming, is an adaptive HTTP-based protocol and it was initially created and released by Apple in...
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18 May 2020
We are streaming more and higher quality video. Overall, time spent in viewing streaming video has increased rapidly to...
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27 April 2020
A recognizable issue with online video streaming is the frequency of loading spinners and its impact on viewer...
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16 April 2020
Amid the global circumstances today, video is providing the connections we need, now more than ever. While across the...
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08 April 2020
Live streamed events are generally delayed by 30 seconds or more compared to the traditional broadcast feed. This...
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19 March 2020
Our previous blog post, Basics of Video Encoding: Everything You Need to Know, we discussed the different aspects of...
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12 March 2020
Bitrate indicates the speed at which video content (or any other data) is delivered. It represents the amount of bits...
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11 March 2020
THEO Technologies announced that it raised $10M in a Series A funding round led by SmartFin Capital with participation...
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20 February 2020
What is video encoding? In simple terms, encoding is the process of compressing and changing the format of raw video...
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23 January 2020
The introductions of new online technologies have changed the landscape for advertisements and how they are used and...
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13 January 2020
Last Friday Apple announced an update of their Low Latency HLS specification. In the new update, Apple is stepping away...
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07 January 2020
Integrating accessibility features on the web is crucial to accommodating viewers with limitations, optimise the...
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19 December 2019
The video industry landscape is continuously evolving and innovating, and it’s important to keep up with the latest...
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19 December 2019
It's been a year filled with innovation, collaboration, development and accolades for THEO Technologies in 2019. Here...
Read more
05 December 2019
THEO's Resources is a collection of video-related content for those keen to learn more about all things video. The...
Read more
21 November 2019
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winners were announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, California....
Read more
15 November 2019
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies has won the 6th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award...
Read more
12 November 2019
Streaming Media Europe announced Friday that THEOplayer won Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European Readers'...
Read more
29 October 2019
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts...
Read more
26 September 2019
With the introduction of digital television, zapping between different channels becomes noticeable. Where zapping...
Read more
24 September 2019
THEO Technologies ranked the number 47 fastest-growing company on Deloitte 2018 Technology Fast 500 EMEA list.
Read more
05 September 2019
We compared the streaming bandwidth between the HESP and CMAF-CTE streams from the test setup. Bandwidths were measured...
Read more
04 September 2019
In order to compare latency achievements of the HESP protocol, we designed a test scenario where HESP is compared with...
Read more
28 August 2019
The media industry is constantly pushing to innovate in order to improve viewer experience in an attempt to attract and...
Read more
21 June 2019
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we...
Read more
18 December 2018
A thumbnail is a reduced size image of a specific frame which helps a viewer to seek to a specific event or scene in a...
Read more
26 November 2018
For video engineers it is clear: The online video industry is evolving at an incredibly fast pace. During the last few...
Read more
16 November 2018
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies won the 5th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award in...
Read more
15 November 2018
The 2018 Readers’ Choice Award winners have been announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach,...
Read more
25 October 2018
THEO Technologies has been nominated for Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 50 competition for technology companies...
Read more
13 August 2018
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1...
Read more
09 August 2018
Within our series of articles explaining the needs for, and ways to achieve low latency, we already discussed Chunked...
Read more
06 August 2018
In the first part of this content series we discussed latency: what it is and why it is important, and we gave a...
Read more
01 August 2018
When it comes to live video, it’s hard to deliver an actual, real live streaming experience. The latency problem is...
Read more
26 July 2018
We are thrilled to announce that THEOplayer has been nominated for 2018 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. This...
Read more
17 July 2018
At a time when the popularity of online video surges, so do online video ads. Advertisers found in video a new source...
Read more
19 June 2018
You might have noticed that lately, when you land on a website, your video starts playing without sound. This is the...
Read more
01 June 2018
Did you know that a 7 seconds video start-up time can result in 50 percent of your audience giving up on playing the...
Read more
27 April 2018
Audio is a key factor in visual media and can enhance or destroy your experience: good processed audio can, in fact,...
Read more
29 March 2018
On March 13th we celebrated the official THEO Technologies' Open House at THEOplayer's HQ in Leuven, Belgium....
Read more
28 March 2018
NAB Las Vegas is just a few weeks away and this year THEOplayer will be exhibiting as World’s Best Online Video Player...
Read more
09 March 2018
The last few months brought us a plethora of presentations, blogposts and articles (as you can read in our previous...
Read more
