Cross platform media delivery: A sea of choices and an ocean of challenges
The streaming wars are on. If you don’t believe me, just look at the sheer amount of different streaming services which are available, especially as...
Low-Latency Everywhere: How to Implement LL-HLS Across Platforms
With the publication of the iOS 14 family last September, Apple has officially released LL-HLS support across its ecosystem. The Apple device family,...
THEOplayer is the leading all-round Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV, OTT service providers, broadcasters and publishers worldwide...
Going Big Screen: Bringing Video to Samsung's Tizen
As recent as the last few years, online streaming has evolved tremendously. Initially, most streaming happened on desktop devices, but today that is...
THEO Technologies Highly Commended with HESP in CSI Awards 2020
Established in 2003 the CSI awards are among the most prestigious and competitive technology awards in the industry, designed to recognise and reward...
Speak the Language: Multi Audio and Language Localisation
As video streaming rises globally, the challenge is not only to get your content to your viewers’ screens, but also in their language. Only providing...
HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS, was initially created and released by Apple in 2009 to solve the problems of scaling. The HLS protocol has become one of...
Amid the global circumstances today, video is providing the connections we need, now more than ever. While across the globe people are locked down in...
High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP): Delivering the Sub-Second Latency Online Viewers Expect
Live streamed events are generally delayed by 30 seconds or more compared to the traditional broadcast feed. This results in a spoiler effect during...
Our previous blog post, Basics of Video Encoding: Everything You Need to Know, we discussed the different aspects of encoding and the different video...
Bitrate indicates the speed at which video content (or any other data) is delivered. It represents the amount of bits per second that are transmitted...
The Retirement of VPAID: What it Means for the Future of Online Advertising
The introductions of new online technologies have changed the landscape for advertisements and how they are used and viewed. This has resulted in new...
The video industry landscape is continuously evolving and innovating, and it’s important to keep up with the latest happenings. THEO Technologies has...
THEO's Resources is a collection of video-related content for those keen to learn more about all things video. The content is suitable for beginners...
THEOplayer wins Best Video Player Solution/ SDK in Global Streaming Media Awards 2019
The 2019 Readers’ Choice Award winners were announced yesterday during Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, California. The competition gathered more...
THEO Technologies wins Deloitte 2019 Fast 50 Award in Media and Entertainment Category
We are proud to announce that THEO Technologies has won the 6th edition of Belgian Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award in the Media and Entertainment...
Streaming Media West is quickly approaching on the 19th _ 20th November 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, US. Our THEO experts will be there, and are looking...
High Efficiency Streaming Protocol : Bandwidth Usage
We compared the streaming bandwidth between the HESP and CMAF-CTE streams from the test setup. Bandwidths were measured when delivered to the client...
Apple's Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS - what you need to know.
Apple recently announced their Protocol Extension for Low-Latency HLS (Preliminary Specification). In this blogpost we will talk through a few of the...
THEOplayer now supports AV1 on Chrome 69 Beta. The latest version of Google’s browser was released on August 2 with AV1 decode. Although the support...
When it comes to live video, it’s hard to deliver an actual, real live streaming experience. The latency problem is especially noticeable when video...
Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards: vote for us!
We are thrilled to announce that THEOplayer has been nominated for 2018 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. This program rewards the best European...
The last few months brought us a plethora of presentations, blogposts and articles (as you can read in our previous one) about the new AV1 codec. As...
Worldwide market research shows that 57% of consumers watch videos on one of the 3.1 billion mobile devices active globally. However, there are a lot...
THEOplayer awarded Best Video Player Solution / SDK by Streaming Media Readers 2017
The votes are in... THEOplayer is awarded as the Best Video Player Solution / SDK in the world during the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards! The...
The following article provides an insight into the key technologies associated with video advertising and more specifically, key considerations when...
THEOplayer has been awarded with the Best of Show award by TVB Europe at IBC 2017. The awards honour innovation and outstanding product development....
Integration of V-Nova PERSEUS™ 2 with THEOplayer Universal Player maximises picture quality across all HTML5 platforms
Integration of V-Nova PERSEUS™ 2 with THEOplayer Universal Player maximises picture quality across all HTML5 platform The THEOplayer Universal Video...
For the 2nd year in a row, THEOplayer has been awarded best Video Player Solution / SDK by Streaming Media Europe
Streaming Media announced today THEOplayer won for the 2nd time in a row Best Video Player Solution/SDK in the European Reader’s Choice Awards. More...
What is the current state and future of VR and 360° video? On Tuesday April 11th, our CPO Maarten Tielemans presided the webinar: “VR and 360° Video...
THEOplayer Nominated as Belgian Scale Up of the Year. Vote for us
THEOplayer is proud to announce it is a nominee for this year’s Belgian Scale Up of the Year award. This award recognizes a Belgian company that has...
Another Deloitte Rising Star Award Nomination for THEOplayer
Deloitte just announced that THEOplayer is once again nominated in the Rising Star category of the Deloitte Technology Fast50 competition. Ten select...
THEOplayer Launches the New, Easy Way to Purchase the Pro License
5 Ways Your Business Will Benefit From Our New Hassle-Free Licensing Plan I'm happy to announce that as of this week video industry professionals can...
Next-Level Content Monetization With Dynamic Ad Insertion In HTML5
The Challenges Of Video Advertising Today In today’s market, broadcasters, operators and online publishers are dealing with numerous challenges when...
Deliver world-class viewer experience without plugins. Key features of THEOplayer are: Adaptive playback of MPEG-DASH and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)....
The Case of Adobe’s next Zero-Day Flash Vulnerability
It’s not a secret that Adobe Flash Player has recently seen some serious flaws and vulnerabilities affecting your devices. Another critical zero-day...
55% of people watch their favorite movie or TV show online on tablet, laptop or TV every day. But what if you have to leave your comfy couch at home?...
The Canadian University of Manitoba and their staff and students have long time been struggling with their custom-made solutions for video streaming....
THEOplayer 1.6 - Multiple Audio Support, Frame Accurate Clipping And A Lot More
The new year started exciting with a new major update of our fully HTML5 based video player THEOplayer. The 1.6 version of THEOplayer has become even...
Yesterday, 14 October 2015, antivirus company Trend Micro notified the world of yet another Flash exploit that is being used in the wild. This is the...
Adobe Flash for video streaming? It is time to move on!
With the recent Hacking Team hack, during which at least two 0-day Adobe Flash exploits have been released in the wild, trust in Adobe Flash is at an...