PDX VIDEO TECH 2024 #4

PDX Video Tech Members!
We have a great line-up of video tech talks. If you can make it in-person, reward yourself with pizza and a beverage. This event is both in-person and will be streaming live. Doors open at 6 PM!

Thanks a lot to our sponsors AWS Elemental and Paramount Global for supporting this event!

Talk #1 - 6:40pm (being presented at Demuxed later this month)
Speaker: Tony McNamara, Senior Director Software Engineering, Video Technology Group, Paramount Global.

Title: Pseudo-Interstitials: Playback flexibility for legacy devices.

Interstitials allow the insertion of content by reference into a playback stream, and are especially useful when a playlist won't work. But Interstitials are also still relatively new; just a year ago Apple devices didn't support playback of them, despite Apple having accepted them into the HLS Specification years earlier. DASH XLinks suffer the general inconsistency so consistent in DASH. And of course legacy devices tend to be stuck on much earlier protocol versions. We've come up with "Pseudo-Interstitials", which provide much of the same flexibility, to allow very-late decisioning and binding of content, especially ads, into playback of legacy devices. This will include a very brief introduction to interstitials and their value, and the problem statement, and then a deep dive into the multi-disciplinary solution including encoding concerns, manifest manipulation, Edge Computing and even briefly SSAI constraints.

Talk #2 - 7:15pm
Speaker: Christoph Neumann, founder of Hypersignal: a WebRTC-based contribution platform for live video production.

Title: Using WebRTC for Live Video Production

What do you think of when you hear “WebRTC”? Video conferencing? Consumer tech? Tiny squares of blocky video that stutter and drop out?

You may be surprised to learn that WebRTC has grown in popularity for live video production. Its unique tradeoffs, its continued evolution, and the rise of broad hardware support have put WebRTC in its own niche that’s hard to beat!

Come learn about the history of video contribution protocols, the emergence of WebRTC, and how it uniquely solves the problem of high quality, low latency video transmission.

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Due to the network conditions always being a bit unpredictable @ Lucky Lab, the event will not be streamed live on our YouTube channel.

The first talk will not be uploaded to YouTube until October 20th. The other two presentations will be available on-demand on YouTube after the event.