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...
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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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18 December 2015
Building your audience and monetisation of online video content is of huge importance to making it a sustainable...
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30 November 2015
A week or two ago, Sony announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. Amazing news! I did...
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05 November 2015
Deloitte announced that THEOplayer is one of the technology startups that has been nominated in the Rising Star...
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29 October 2015
The National Assembly of Wales engages Vualto, THEOplayer (THEO Technologies) and Unified Streaming for their new...
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22 October 2015
HTML5 is booming and plugin based media distribution is diminishing. This however brings a number of new challenges...
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15 October 2015
Yesterday, 14 October 2015, antivirus company Trend Micro notified the world of yet another Flash exploit that is being...
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09 October 2015
Our customer Mozilla intends to remove support for most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016. The company...
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