THE PANEL
Matthew Williams-Neale Vice president of marketing and communications, Appear
Dr Ciro Noronha CTO, Cobalt Digital
Venugopal Iyengar COO of digital, Planetcast
Evan Statton VP of strategic business development, Zixi
Dan Pisarski CTO, LiveU
Stefan Lederer Co-founder and CEO, Bitmovin
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST BOTTLENECKS IN ACHIEVING TRUE REAL-TIME STREAMING, AND WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE TO VARYING BROADCAST SEGMENTS?
CIRO NORONHA: There are two primary bottlenecks for low-latency streaming distribution. Encoding latency, both in the encoder itself and in the instructions it gives to the decoder for how much buffering it needs. This component can account for a few seconds of latency. In this case, there is a
trade-off between latency, bit rate and quality. With the right equipment and encoding (HEVC ULL), this latency can be reduced without a quality impact if higher bit rates can be used. The other is buffering latency through the path. This is added to ensure a smooth delivery to the end user. There is again
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