Beamr Content-Adaptive Bitrate Encoding
Produce the Highest Quality Video at the Lowest Possible Bitrates
Vantage Gateway users can now access content-adaptive bitrate encoding technology from industry leader Beamr to stream video with the highest possible picture quality and up to 50% fewer bits, resulting in smaller file sizes, more satisfied customers and lower CDN and storage expenditures.
Highlights
Promotes good citizenship of the internet by reducing bandwidth usage up to 25%
Lowers CDN and storage costs by up to 50%
Improves user experience with faster starts and less buffering
Reach more users, regardless of network speed
The Bandwidth Challenge
High-resolution video such as 4K HDR requires tremendous amounts of bandwidth to deliver optimum viewing quality across a range of OTT devices. The bitrate demands of these massive files can result in slow starts and buffering and exceedingly high CDN and storage costs. It can also limit your ability to stream new revenue-generating content over constrained IP networks.
Beamr: The Clear CABR Leader
Granted 48 international patents, with more pending, Beamr CABR encoding is unmatched. At its heart is a unique measurement algorithm that leverages the perceptual qualities of the human visual system. The technology applies several compression levels to each video frame, comparing the subjective quality of input and output frames for each level. When the frame quality falls within a perceptually identical threshold, the encoder outputs the frame and moves on to the next one, ensuring that each frame is encoded using the minimum number of bits while fully preserving the original quality.
Fewer Bits, Less Cost
Vantage Gateway enables the use of Beamr’s 5x HEVC and 4x AVC encoding engines, both of which help the encoder make smarter decisions based on the true visual quality of each video frame. Scenes with high motion and detailed textures get higher bitrates, while scenes with low motion and smooth surfaces get lower bitrates. As a result, action movies can see up to 25% bitrate reduction and non-action content up to 50% reduction, both of which translate into reduced CDN costs.
Available for Every Format
Beamr encoding support on Vantage Gateway is available for all next-generation video formats, including Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), HDR10 and Dolby Vision, as well as resolutions up to 8K. Supported codecs include AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265. With Beamr CABR, Vantage Gateway customers can encode broadcast-quality 4K HEVC video at bitrates under 10 Mbps, and 1080p video as low as 1.5 Mbps.
Solution Briefs
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Beamr CABR Encoding
Employ the Industry’s Best-in-Class Service for Producing High-Quality Video at the Lowest Possible Bitrates