Bitmovin

bitmovin

Type	Private
Industry	Streaming media
Founded	2013
Founder	Christopher Mueller Christian Timmerer Stefan Lederer
Headquarters	Klagenfurt, Austria
Area served	Europe, North America, Asia, South America
Website	www.bitmovin.net

Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company which provides services that transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats using cloud computing, and streaming media players. Founded in 2013, the Austrian company contributes to MPEG-DASH, an open standard that allows streaming video to be played in HTML5 video and Flash players.

It is focussed on adaptive streaming formats such as Apple's HTTP Live Streaming or MPEG-DASH, which can be served by any HTTP web servers (Apache, IIS, Nginx and Lighttpd) or cloud-infrastructure such as Amazon AWS.^[1]

The company provides the cloud-based transcoding service bitcodin,^[2] which increases the efficiency of transcoding by using Cloud computing,^[3] which also enables transcoding of ultra-high definition video.^[4]

The HTML5 and Flash-based Web player bitdash^[5][6] can be used in Web Browsers on desktop computers and smartphones. This player enables the streaming and playback of MPEG-DASH or Apple's HTTP Live Streaming, using either the HTML5 Media Source Extensions or Flash, depending on the platform.^[7] DRM is enabled through the usage of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions as well as Flash.^[8] It is compatible to popular tools such as x264 or MP4Box.^[9]

Bitmovin was founded in 2013 after research and standardization in the area of MPEG-DASH at the University of Klagenfurt.^[10] In 2014 the company secured an investment round with the venture capital fond Speedinvest and Constantia Industries.^[11][12] In 2014, the company was part of the top 100 companies in online media.^[13][14] Bitmovin is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash^[15][16] and contributes to the standardization at MPEG,^[17] DASH-IF,^[18] IETF,^[19] etc.

In 2015, bitmovin participated in the YCombinator program.^[20]

Usage

• Live or on-demand transcoding of video or audio streaming to HLS, progressive and DASH
• Web-based players for streaming for HLS, progressive and DASH content in HTML5 or Flash
• Streaming of DRM protected content in HTML5

References

1. "bitcodin – cloud based transcoding and streaming – Create MPEG-DASH & HLS content for Amazon S3 and Cloudfront". the Trendy Things.
2. "bitcodin – cloud based transcoding and streaming". bitcodin.com.
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4. "778617 – (MSE) Tracking bug for Media Source Extensions API implementation". mozilla.org.
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6. "Bitmovin Intros Website for Bitdash MPEG-DASH Video Players". Streaming Media Europe Magazine.
7. "HTML5 Video Player Comparison". praegnanz.de.
8. "Widevine Modular DRM / CENC". unified-streaming.com.
9. "How Bitmovin leverage MP4Box to package their contents for their bitdash player". GPAC Licensing.
10. "ITEC – Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP". aau.at.
11. "Austria". inventures.
12. "SpeedInvest - bitmovin". speedinvest.com.
13. Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. "The List of the 100 Companies that Matter Most in Online Video in 2014 - Streaming Media Magazine". Streaming Media Magazine.
14. "Youth Time magazine - 7 Most Innovative Startups in Austria". youth-time.eu.
15. "Software". dashif.org.
16. Christian Timmerer. "MPEG-DASH Reference Software and Conformance". slideshare.net.
17. "MPEG Column: 110th MPEG Meeting". ndlab.net.
18. "Members". dashif.org.
19. "draft-video-streaming-over-ICN-01.txt on icnrg – Attachment – IRTF". ietf.org.
20. "Y Combinator-backed bitcodin turns your films into netflix-quality video". venturebeat.com.