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Voices of VideoTrust, Footprint, and Milliseconds: The Real Levers of Live StreamingWhat if your live stream could feel instant, look sharper at the same bitrate, and cost less to run as you scale?In this episode of Voices of Video, we unpack how a fast-growing live gaming platform rethought its architecture, moved beyond a fully public cloud setup, and built a global hybrid model that delivered measurable results: lower egress spend, higher transcoding density, and a clear lead in end-to-end latency.We start with a hard truth many streaming teams face too late - public cloud convenience gets expensive at scale. Our guest walks...
2025-12-1821 min
Voices of VideoRethinking Live Publishing: Templates, Roles, and Hybrid ControlWhat does it take to run hundreds of live events without chaos? In this episode, we open up the architecture behind G&L’s Playout Hub - a hybrid publishing engine designed for broadcasters, public institutions, and distributed editorial teams that need broadcast precision at scale. Built on decades of systems integration experience at G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH, the platform mixes live inputs, VOD interstitials, graphics, and multi-target outputs into a unified, dependable workflow.We trace the evolution from bespoke integrations to a productized, composable platform grounded in three pillars:Custom solutions,Reusable comp...
2025-12-1117 min
Voices of VideoScaling Video at the Edge: A Practical RoadmapViewers won’t wait for your pipeline to catch up. This episode breaks down a practical roadmap for scaling video at the edge - where power limits, bandwidth costs, and live latency collide. With Advantech’s rugged, modular platforms (https://www.advantech.com/) paired with NETINT’s low-power, high-density ASIC encoders (https://netint.com/), we show how to move the heavy lifting closer to the camera and away from cloud bottlenecks - without compromising quality or operational control. Based on insights shared in Voices of Video Episode 72.We deta...
2025-12-0407 min
Voices of VideoThe New Economics of Transcoding: How VPUs Unlock FAST, AVOD & Back-Catalog RevenueWhat if transcoding stopped being the constraint and became the engine behind your content strategy? In this episode, Arcadian’s Joe Waltzer and Josh Pesigan explain how Video Processing Units (VPUs) are transforming the economics and timing of video workflows—and why the real win isn’t just lower cost, but the freedom to experiment, iterate, and ship smarter.We start with a reality everyone in streaming understands: massive back catalogs sit on shelves because cloud transcoding costs erase the margin. With VPUs, that equation flips. Suddenly multilingual versions, refreshed ABR ladders, and FAST-ready packaging become inexpensive enough...
2025-11-2709 min
Voices of VideoSo You Want A VPU? Here’s The No-Drama Way To Plug, Play, And Push To Your CDNTired of choosing between ripping out your video stack or standing still? In this episode, Kenneth Robinson, Director of Field Application Engineers at NETINT, walks through a practical playbook for deploying Video Processing Units (VPUs) at any stage of growth - from retrofitting a live server to scaling across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments.We start with hardware options that match real-world use cases: • T1U hot-swap modules that slide into existing servers - no downtime required. • Prebuilt 1RU systems with up to ten T1Us and your choice of ARM or x8...
2025-11-2008 min
Voices of VideoSynchronizing 20 Perspectives: The Future Of Multi-View EsportsCameras miss moments; fans don’t. We wanted every decisive peek, every clutch revive, and every chaotic final ring in Apex Legends to be watchable from any team’s perspective - live, synchronized, and affordable. That meant rethinking how we transcode and distribute dozens of POV streams at once without drowning in startup lag or compute spend.We walk through how Scalstrm integrated NETINT VPUs at a low level to pack up to 20 live channels onto a single card, slashing both costs and boot times for event-based streaming. Instead of relying on generic wrappers, they tapp...
2025-11-1317 min
Voices of VideoYour Sports Car Is Cool, But The Taxi Wins On Power BillsWhat if your heaviest video jobs spun up in seconds, sipped power, and scaled wherever your viewers are?In this episode, we run NETINT VPUs inside Akamai Cloud and push them across live and just-in-time workflows—multi-codec ABR (AV1/H.264/HEVC), synchronization, DRM, and low-latency packaging included.We start with deployment trade-offs: on-prem cards (control like a tuned sports car), cloud resources (on-demand like a taxi), portable containers, and Kubernetes for orchestration and autoscaling. With VPUs available in-region on Akamai, you cut CPU bu...
2025-11-0622 min
Startup InsiderLovables 5 Milliarden – OpenAI & Amazon DealIn dieser Folge berichten wir über OpenAIs 38-Milliarden-Dollar-Deal mit AWS, souveräne KI-Lösungen in Europa und sprechen mit CrustZone-Gründer Maximilian Brüchert über sein Community-Franchise-Modell für Detroit Style Pizza.Weitere Themen:Interview mit Maximilian Brüchert, einem der beiden Co-Founder von CrustZone: Das Wiener Gastro-Startup sammelt Community-Investitionen ab 110 Euro über Genussrechteoctonomy sammelt 20 Millionen Dollar in Seed-Runde für KI-Support-AutomatisierungLovable erreicht spektakuläre Bewertung von fünf Milliarden DollarThe Icon League erhält 15 Millionen Euro von HV Capital und prominenten Investoren wie Jürgen KloppTractive verhandelt über Verkauf mit Milliarden-Bewertung im Pet-Tech-MarktZürcher Robotik-Startup Mimic schließt 1...
2025-11-0416 min
Voices of VideoCloud Bills Made You Cry? Gamers Already Fixed ThatEver notice how interactive video feels great one moment and laggy the next? We dig into why - and what it takes to make streams feel as immediate and fair as a top-tier multiplayer game.Coming from a gaming-first background, we talk candidly about round-trip latency, jitter, and why 30 ms one way is the magic threshold for experiences where people don’t just watch, but participate.We walk through the hard lessons of early cloud gaming, from capex-heavy builds to routing realities, and show how those same insights are no...
2025-10-3019 min
Voices of VideoFrom Campbell to Codensity: A Practical Hero’s Journey in Video EncodingWhat if a hardware roadmap could read like a myth? We take Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and map it to a concrete engineering pivot - from life in the ordinary world of CPU/GPU encoding to a high-density, power-efficient future with NETINT’s Codensity G5-based VPUs. We talk through the initial reluctance to touch specialized hardware, the mentors and SDKs that changed our minds, and the exact moment we crossed the threshold by installing drivers, testing real inputs, and pushing the cards into live workflows.From there, the plot thickens: allies like N...
2025-10-2313 min
Voices of VideoEnergy Is the New Bottleneck in Live Video | Why VPUs Beat GPUs for Low-Res ABR at 4–6x Energy SavingsLive video is exploding, power budgets are shrinking, and the old “throw more GPU at it” mindset is breaking. We dig into the real constraint behind streaming at scale - energy - and share new data showing how VPUs can deliver 4–6x better efficiency than top-tier GPUs while holding quality where viewers notice it most. From the early days of CPU-only encoding to a modern, hybrid stack, we walk through the architecture that lets us stream more for less power without cutting corners on quality. We break down head-to-head tests run in the cloud comparing an RTX 4080 (NVENC an...
2025-10-0910 min
Voices of VideoThe TikTok of Live TV | Swipe, Watch, RepeatWhen Ignacio "Nacho" Opazo opened his laptop in 2011, he wasn't just writing code, but rather, he was laying the foundation for what would become Latin America's pioneering OTT platform. A musician turned self-taught developer, Nacho's journey from creating El Telón (Latin America's first streaming television service) to building Zapping (now serving 500,000 paying subscribers across four countries) represents a masterclass in technical innovation and market disruption. What makes Zapping extraordinary isn't just its success but how it was built. Unlike competitors who adopted off-the-shelf solutions, Nacho's team developed everything in-house: encoders, players, applications, and even their own c...
2025-10-0243 min
Voices of VideoWatts Up With Your Encoder? Akamai & Cires21 Benchmark VPUs vs. GPUsEnergy efficiency is quickly becoming the new battleground in video processing infrastructure, and a groundbreaking benchmark study has revealed just how dramatic the differences can be between competing technologies. In this eye-opening conversation, Chris Milstead from Akamai and Dennis Mungai from Cires21 share findings from their joint research comparing Video Processing Units (VPUs) to traditional GPUs for encoding workloads.The benchmark shows that VPUs deliver 4.7X better energy efficiency than GPUs for video encoding, while maintaining equivalent quality.Highlights from...
2025-09-2544 min
Voices of VideoEfficiency, Economics, and Innovation - Transforming Video ArchitecturesThe economics of video delivery are changing dramatically, forcing media companies to rethink their entire approach to content distribution architecture. In this fascinating roundtable discussion, leaders from Akamai, Scalstrm, and Arcadian reveal how the push for efficiency is reshaping video workflows across the industry.As streaming platforms expand globally, they're discovering that delivery strategies that worked in established markets don't necessarily translate to new territories. Our experts explain how companies are bringing technical expertise in-house and carefully balancing where different workloads should run. The conversation explores why some processing makes more...
2025-09-1852 min
Voices of VideoTraining Your Own LLM: The Untapped Value of Media ArchivesThe AI revolution in media production is moving beyond marketing hype into practical applications delivering real value. Ryan Jesperson from Cires21 takes us deep into how their Media Co-Pilot platform is transforming workflows for tier-one broadcasters through thoughtfully implemented artificial intelligence. Unlike basic AI integrations that simply bolt onto existing systems, Media Co-Pilot addresses the nuanced needs of professional media organizations by training models specific to broadcast content. This approach solves the "garbage in, garbage out" problem that plagues many rudimentary AI implementations, delivering broadcast-quality results for transcription, translation, face detection, and scene a...
2025-09-1140 min
Voices of VideoThe Engine Isn’t Enough: Building Robust Media Frameworks Around the VPUThe beating heart of every video streaming service is its encoding technology, but raw power alone isn't enough to deliver exceptional viewer experiences. In this eye-opening conversation, Mark Donnigan explores what happens when you combine the incredible performance of Video Processing Units (VPUs) with thoughtfully designed software frameworks.Mark Donnigan compares the VPU to a high-performance engine – essential and powerful, but ultimately useless without the surrounding vehicle.Dominique Vosters explains: “Initially performance was the key differentiator, but going beyond that, you can make the system even better with...
2025-09-0446 min
Voices of VideoSilicon Showdown: CPUs, GPUs, and VPUs Battle for Data Center DominanceHybrid cloud infrastructure has finally arrived for video streaming, and it's transforming how organizations balance performance, cost, and sovereignty requirements. In this enlightening conversation with Stefan Ideler from i3D.net, we explore how the gaming industry's early adoption of hybrid approaches now offers valuable lessons for video streaming platforms facing similar pressures.Stefan reveals how i3D.net's massive global network, exceeding 30 terabits per second across 65 locations worldwide, provides the foundation for both gaming and video delivery services requiring ultra-low latency. Having started in 2004 before AWS even existed, i3D.net has...
2025-08-2853 min
Voices of VideoPixels, Profits, and Processing: The Hidden Economics of StreamingEver wonder what happens behind the scenes when your favorite streaming platform adds thousands of classic films overnight? The challenges are far more complex than most realize. Joe Waltzer, CEO and founder of Arcadian, pulls back the curtain on the intricate world of media workflow engineering in this enlightening conversation. With over five years of experience solving delivery challenges for major Hollywood studios and global media companies, Joe offers a rare glimpse into the technological puzzles that must be solved to bring content from production to your screen. "When you look at...
2025-08-2159 min
Voices of VideoMini Box, Massive Impact: How Advantech and NETINT built a compact edge server for high-performance streaming.Dom Mrakuzic from Advantech joins Voices of Video to unveil how this revolution is unfolding through solutions like the Quadra Mini Server, a collaboration with NETINT Technologies. This compact half-rack appliance represents a significant breakthrough in edge video processing, capable of encoding 20 simultaneous 1080p broadcast-quality streams while consuming just 10 watts of power. What makes this development particularly significant is that it wasn't conceived in isolation. The Quadra Mini Server emerged directly from customer requirements in environments where traditional rack servers weren't practical - sports venues, remote production sites, and other space-constrained locations. The result is hardware purpose-built...
2025-08-1441 min
Voices of VideoFrom Gaming to Streaming: How i3DNet's Hybrid Infrastructure Breaks Vendor Lock-inAs the second most peered network globally with over 65 points of presence worldwide, i3DNet has built something remarkable - an infrastructure designed to satisfy gaming's most demanding users that now powers millions of concurrent streams on platforms like Discord. "Gamers are the most demanding users in the internet world," Stefan explains, highlighting how meeting their expectations has created a network optimized for performance.Stefan Idler from i3DNet joins us to discuss how their gaming-focused infrastructure is revolutionizing video streaming with a hybrid cloud approach that breaks vendor lock-in while significantly reducing costs.• i3DN...
2025-08-0739 min
Voices of VideoSave 66%: Why Your Video Streaming Budget is Going Up in SmokeThe numbers are staggering: using AWS Media Live for HD video processing costs approximately $10,117 per stream over three years, while the NetInsight/NetInt solution delivers the same capabilities for around $3,500 – a reduction of 66-70%. These aren't theoretical projections but real-world figures that are opening eyes throughout the industry.We explore the innovative partnership between NetInsight and NETINT, showcasing how strategic edge processing can dramatically reduce video streaming costs while improving quality and flexibility.• NetInsight's Nimbra Edge platform integrated with NetInt VPUs creates a powerful ecosystem for video processing• Edge processing at venues offers significant advant...
2025-07-3131 min
Voices of VideoQuality, Cost, Latency: The Hidden Battles in Video DeliveryStarting with signal reception at massive satellite dishes, Martin Azpiroz, director at Bold MSS walks us through the complete delivery chain, from transcoding and packaging to content protection and playback. We explore Bold MS's fascinating technical evolution from CPU to GPU to their current ASIC-based encoding approach. This shift hasn't just improved video quality; it has also dramatically reduced hardware failures, server footprint, and power consumption. As Martin explains, some providers have discovered that server energy costs can reach 30% of the hardware's replacement value annually, making these efficiency gains financially significant.• Bold MS offers a c...
2025-07-2439 min
Voices of Video600 Channels, 1 Server - Reimagining Video Processing for SustainabilityHardware acceleration is changing the economics of video delivery, and Scalstrm is at the forefront of this revolution. After showcasing their just-in-time transcoding solution at NAB, Dominic returns to Voices of Video to share how they've partnered with NETINT to create a groundbreaking platform that's already winning customer deployments.• Scalstrm built their transcoding solution from scratch without relying on open-source components• Their migration from software to hardware acceleration took only 3-4 months• Performance testing showed "huge" advantages using VPU cards over CPU-based transcoding• The solution supports all major codecs including H.264, HEVC, and has plans fo...
2025-07-1732 min
Voices of VideoFrom VHS Tapes to Huddle: The Evolution of Sports Video AnalysisCasey Bateman, Principal Engineer at Huddle, reveals how their video platform revolutionized sports analysis by replacing the old system of coaches exchanging physical tapes with instant digital access. Founded in 2006 at the University of Nebraska, Huddle now serves 97% of US high school football programs and has expanded globally to 40+ sports.• Huddle's first client was Nebraska football in 2007, followed by the NY Jets when their coach moved teams• Explosive growth began when targeting high schools - from 12 schools in 2008 to 1,300 by 2010• Currently powers video analysis for 230,000 different organizations globally across 40 different sports• Platform optimizes for clear je...
2025-07-1054 min
Voices of VideoCores Galore: Video Processing Without the Computational GymnasticsARM architecture is revolutionizing video processing with power-efficient processors that deliver predictable performance without the computational gymnastics required by traditional x86 systems.• Ampere builds ARM-based processors with massive core counts (up to 192 cores) focused on sustainable computing• Traditional x86 architecture struggles with video workloads due to multi-threading causing unpredictable performance• Single-threaded cores in ARM processors provide predictable execution crucial for video processing• ARM processors consuming just 1 watt per core enable 320 simultaneous 1080p30 live transcodes in a single 1RU server• When paired with VPUs for encoding, ARM cores can handle complex tasks like de-interlacing, MPEG-2 dec...
2025-07-031h 01
Voices of VideoThe Onion Layers of Video: A Deep Dive into WebRTCWebRTC pioneer Tsahi Levent-Levi shares his extensive knowledge on this real-time communication protocol, explaining its inner workings, challenges, and proper implementation approaches.• WebRTC consists of both a protocol stack (standard specification) and Google's implementation (libwebrtc) used in all major browsers• The protocol is designed specifically for real-time communication with sub-second latency requirements• When building with WebRTC, consider using third-party solutions rather than building from scratch• Quality challenges arise from network unpredictability, requiring compromises to maintain real-time communication• Simulcast (creating multiple streams at different bitrates) remains more widely adopted than SVC due to hardware compatibil...
2025-06-2657 min