Showing posts with label DRM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DRM. Show all posts

December 2016 – January 2017

Industry
• Following 'free' 4G from Reliance Jio in India, Airtel offering 3GB free on top of 1GB paid (2GB for Vodafone)
• WeChat data: 768m daily active users, 35% year-on-year growth
• Growth in online video in India (according to UC News): video drives increased engagement
• The Future of Faking Audio and Video: quicker and easier
• 2016: The Year Social Ate Media and Telcos: in 2016 social and messaging apps grew by 394% whereas music, media and entertainment were up only 1%, and gaming is down 4%: 'communitainment' is winning
• Oscars: Amazon Nabs Streaming's First Best Picture Nomination With 'Manchester by the Sea'
• Facebook using AI to search images and videos: for example, searching for 'blowing out candles' in a video of your child, a politician in old news footage or a hotel in a travel documentary
• Mass entertainment in the digital age is still about blockbusters, not endless choice:
'Of the thousands of films released worldwide in 2016 (including well over 700 in America alone), the top five performers at the box office were all made by Disney.' 
'By last year the tail had become yet longer but even thinner: of 8.7m different tracks that sold at least one copy, 96% sold fewer than 100 copies and 40%—3.5m songs—were purchased just once.' 
Hardware
• Logitech $200 4k webcam

 Codecs, compression, containers
• Huge gains for 3D graphics data compression with Draco open source library from Google (ZDNet article)
• VP8 in Microsoft Edge as part of support for WebRTC (Microsoft blog post)
• Netflix using VP9 for more efficient mobile delivery (Netflix blog post)
• Better video encoding with experimental Content Hints: speech or music, motion or detail (demo)

<video> and <audio>
• Intent to Ship: Fullscreen Media Orientation
• Intent to Ship: MediaSession API
• Media Session API now in Chrome for Android, in development for Safari: enables web apps to create media notifications (title, artist, album name, artwork) and respond to media related events such as seeking or track changing (sample app here)

Progressive Web Apps
• Follow Paul Lewis’s video developer diary series as he builds a Progressive Web App for Media (code here)

Flash, plugins...
• In case you missed it: Flash roadmap

WebRTC, messaging, live streaming
• WebRTC in WebKit: Apple is implementing WebRTC in Safari
• WebRTC 1.0 in Microsoft Edge (Microsoft blog post)
• What do the parameters in webrtc-internals really mean?
• WebRTC M56 Release Notes: RTCPeerConnection is now un-prefixed, new RTCPeerConnection.getStats, hardware encode for H.264 on Windows
• Slack announced video support, how did they do it?
• Google brings RCS, the next-gen upgrade to SMS, to Android phones on Sprint (from November)
• 400M people use Facebook Messenger audio and video calling each month

Adaptive streaming
• MPEG-LA announces launch of patent pool and licensing terms for MPEG-DASH.

Encrypted Media Extensions
• HTTPS streaming will be required as indicated previously (starting with Chrome 58).
• Audio and video capabilities must be specified (from Chrome 58).

Audio and Web Audio
• Jake Archibald plays with Web Audio (from November)
• In Apple-Spotify World, SoundCloud Can’t Find Room: 'It is virtually impossible to run a streaming-music service as a profitable business'
• State of music streaming:
'In the next ten years, China may well become the world’s largest recorded-music market' — Jonathon Dworkin, Universal SVP
'If we can tell a band from Glasgow that they’re big in Portland, Oregon, you don’t have to be an economist to realise they can play a bigger theatre with less risk attached ....' — Will Page, Spotify
'Streaming is the dominant revenue stream for all the major labels and many of the indies' — Karim Fanous, Music Ally
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October–November 2016

Flash, plugins…
• Challenges of HTML5 media playback at the BBC: 'IE11... thinks it doesn't support AVC3, but does ... Safari <= 9 ... thinks it supports AVC3, but doesn't'
• Moving Beyond Flash: The Yahoo HTML5 Video Player

Industry
• Comscore 2016 US Mobile App Report:
Word-of-mouth nearly as important as app store discovery for native smartphone apps (and rising); total-minutes-spent-in-apps beginning to decline ... 
[M]obile audience growth is being driven more by mobile web properties, which are actually bigger and growing faster than apps ...But mobile web audiences also tend to be a mile wide and an inch deep. As audiences increase, average time on mobile web declines.
Many of the fastest growing apps are services that improve existing real-world behaviors, such as hailing cabs, exercising and dating.
• The internet has been quietly rewired, and video is the reason why: Increasing proportion of video internet traffic means CDNs are taking over: 'The internet today is no longer tiered ..: it’s the flattening of the internet.'

<video>, <audio>, <canvas>, <img>
• Apple and Google Browser Tweaks Could Boost Mobile Video: WSJ article expressing concerns at data usage.
• Intent to Implement: Shape Detection API: hardware-accelerated detection of image features (human faces, QR codes, etc.)
• Min Vid Firefox Test Pilot experiment: watch videos in a small window over other tabs
• ImageCapture (API for taking photos — demo at simpl.info/ic): Intent to Experiment, Enable ImageCapture origin trial experiments
• Intent to Ship: Remote Playback API: this will enable audio and video elements to load, play and control media on a remote playback device
• MSE (an API for constructing media streams in JavaScript) is now a W3C Recommendation
• Given its properties, can a specified piece of media content be played at all?
• Will playback have high quality (smoothness)? Will it be power efficient?
• Do output capabilities (e.g. color gamut, dynamic range, audio channels) match content?
• Are security requirements (e.g. encryption, HDCP, etc) supported or playback-impacting?
• Given multiple possible media formats, which is preferable?

EME
• DRM and Web security: Ian Hickson article calling on W3C members to endorse a proposal 'to require each company working on the EME specification to sign an agreement that they would not sue security researchers studying EME'.

WebRTC, messaging, realtime, live streaming
• WebRTC: From The Ground Up: Nick Chadwick talk at Demuxed2016 (ht @tsahil)
• Facebook Messenger Lite launched: <10MB, 'starting to roll out to people in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. Look for Messenger Lite in other countries in the coming months.'
• Line made $271 million from stickers in 2015 up 38 percent from 2014 (article from a few months back)

And finally...
• Browser media capabilities: Bitmovin page that tests your browser for CDM/codec support, and provides information about MSE, codec, CDM and adaptive streaming support for major browsers on desktop and mobile
• Detailed study by UK telecoms regulator Ofcom: Children and parents: media use and attitudes
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