Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company that provides services to transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats using cloud computing and streaming media players. Bitmovin was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer, who co-founded the MPEG-DASH video standard, and brought the worlds’ first commercial HTML5 MPEG-DASH player into production. Since then they have quickly established themselves as a technology leader in the world of online video by developing the market’s fastest API driven Cloud-based Video Encoding Service and an HTML5 Player for MPEG-DASH and Apple HLS that allows adaptive content to be played on any device, in any browser without buffering. Bitmovin, Inc. is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria
Scality and Bitmovin
The Bitmovin managed on-premises encoding solution runs on top of Kubernetes and Docker and supports the Scality RING storage, offering the same features as their cloud encoding service. Managed on-premises encoding offers the benefits of Software as a Service solution while utilizing the Scality RING private cloud.
Hear from Bitmovin
In this video taken at IBC 2017, Bitmovin CTO and Co-Founder Christopher Müller describes the company’s technology.