How to enable out of app picture-in-picture on iOS and Android
by Raffi Manissalian, Hovig Jilinkerian & Alexander Vanspauwen on March 29, 2022
Picture-in-picture Meet Picture-in-picture (PiP), the feature that allows you to continue watching a video while interacting with others sites or applications. The PiP video floats on top of another window and can be moved around the screen. Depending on the available platform control …
THEO Technologies is nominated for the 2022 Trends Gazellen Award!
by THEO Technologies on November 24, 2021
Our nomination for the Trends Gazellen Award 2022 As THEO Technologies is continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation and the service capabilities of our customers, we are extremely honoured to be nominated for the first time for the Trends Gazellen Award in the Flemish Brabant …
Optimizing LL-HLS: How does HESP fare against LL-HLS?
by Negar Hajihoseini on October 20, 2021
In the previous blog, we’ve covered the 4 key factors affecting the quality of low latency streaming experience when utilising Apple's LL-HLS protocol. Additionally, we have also discussed the importance of GOP size and its impacts on the overall viewing experience and provide 4 recom …
Operating HESP with low encoding costs
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on October 6, 2021
The High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) comes with a lot of advantages. It allows for sub second latency over standard HTTP CDNs (and the cost to scale benefit they bring), with unrivalled channel change times. The high QoE HESP delivers is the result of it’s main difference wit …
Workaround for the Safari Fairplay regression in iOS and iPadOS 15
by Pieter-Jan Speelmans on October 4, 2021
What is the problem? As some of you are likely aware of, a regression was introduced in the iOS & iPadOS 15 versions. The issue has an impact upon playback of Fairplay protected streams in Safari. As a result, all video players (including Apple’s own playback support) which attemp …
Optimizing LL-HLS: 4 Recommendations For The Best Low-Latency Streaming
by Negar Hajihoseini on September 22, 2021
In the previous blog, we’ve covered the 4 key factors affecting the quality of low latency streaming experience when utilising Apple's LL-HLS protocol. Additionally, we have also discussed the importance of GOP size and its impacts on the overall viewing experience. In this blog, we w …
Optimizing LL-HLS: The Impacts of GOP size on Viewing Experience
by Negar Hajihoseini on September 14, 2021
In the previous blog, we’ve covered the 4 key factors affecting the quality of low latency streaming experience when utilising Apple's LL-HLS protocol. In this blog, we will take a dive into the importance of Group of Pictures (GOP) and its impacts on the overall viewing experience. A …
Optimizing LL-HLS: 4 Key Factors affecting its performance
by Negar Hajihoseini on September 9, 2021
In the previous LL-HLS series, we’ve covered how it works and how the end-to-end solution should look as well as suitable use cases and THEO’s recommendations for LL-HLS implementations. In this blog series, we want to focus on how to tune better for Low Latency Streaming with an intr …
Buy vs Build: The Advantage of a Commercial Video Player
by Craig Ferguson on July 20, 2021
When planning (or re-evaluating) your approach to the video player component of your video delivery workflow, you will more than likely at some point reach a crossroads when considering the decision to follow the open-source or commercial video player path. Whilst both options are ent …