The VideoVerse
Listen to video experts and engineers speak about all things video. From UGC to OTT to Broadcast, we discuss the approaches and algorithms they use to deliver the ultimate video experience, spanning capture, encoding, processing, distribution, streaming, and playback.
Episodes
29 episodes
From Hype to Impact: What NAB 2025 Taught Us About AI in Video
In this kickoff episode of the revived Visionular Podcast, David Lea is joined by Zoe Liu and Krishna Rao to reflect on their experience at NAB 2025. From AI innovations to meaningful product conversations, the trio unpacks what made this year ...
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Episode 29
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19:42
TVV EP 28 - Romain Bouqueau: Championing Open-Source in the Streaming Industry
In this episode, Romain Bouqueau, CEO and Founder of Motion Spell gives us a deep look into the contributions of the open-source community in the world of video streaming. Romain also shares his insights into how open-source works, how GPAC/Mot...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:05:13
TVV EP 27 - Flavio Ribeiro: The Past, Present & Future of Video Streaming
Tune in to hear Flavio Ribeiro, Sr. Engineering Manager of Netflix’s Live Streaming Technologies, discuss all things video streaming. Starting in the streets of Campina Grande, Flavio shares his journey from contributing to the recreation of Br...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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1:01:37
TVV EP 26 - Debargha Mukherjee: A Peek Into The AV2 Future
Back for a second time on TheVideoVerse, Debargha Mukherjee, Principal Engineer at Google, discusses the upcoming AV2 project, touted as the successor to the popular and powerful AV1 codec. In this podcast, Debargha talks about the advent of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:00:24
TVV EP 25 - Jill Boyce: Video Codec Pioneer
Jill Boyce, Distinguished Scientist at Nokia, is one of the most significant and long-standing contributors to MPEG compression standards. In this episode, we speak with her about her work and experiences, from MPEG-2 through to VVC and beyond....
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:01:24
TVV EP 24 - Justin Ridge: Bringing Codec Standards to The World
In this episode, we talk to Justin Ridge, President of the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF). A veteran of video coding standards, he shares his perspective on the video codec landscape and the work of MC-IF in promoting MPEG standards. We di...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:02:24
TVV EP 23 - Adventures with AV1 for RTC with Eric Sun
In this episode, Eric Sun gives a deep dive into Meta's recent experiences with deploying AV1 for real-time communications across Meta's applications. He describes what proved to be the big advantages of AV1, where Meta saw most benefit in term...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:22:44
TVV EP 22 - Playback experience in YouTube by Chas Mastin
In this episode, Chas Mastin shared his insights about how YouTube ensures premium playback experience for its users. As one of the largest streaming platforms globally, YouTube faces the challenge of delivering supreme experiences to millions ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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52:07
TVV EP 21 - Live Captions In All Languages is Hard! Wait, is it really?
Live Captions are Hard! Wait, are they? Browse on over to the latest episode of The Video Verse where we discuss accessibility via Live Captions and Dubbing with Chris Zhang, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, and Gio Galvez, VP of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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57:07
TVV EP 20 - Demystifying VMAF with Zhi Li
The VMAF video quality metric is ubiquitous in the streaming world, and any discussion of video codec performance is seldom complete without poring over VMAFscores. But what is it? In this episode VMAF guru and leader of the Netflix Video Codec...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:05:03
TVV EP 19 - Exploring Versatile Video Coding
In this episode we are joined by Benjamin Bross and Adam Wiekowski, who head the Video Coding Systems Group at the prestigious Fraunhofer HHI research institute. Adam and Benjamin have been central to the development of the latest MPEG video co...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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58:43
TVV EP 18 - The challenges and opportunities of building a hyper-local OTT service in India
We are pleased to host Shashank Vaishnav, CTO and co-founder of Stage.in. In this episode we discuss Shashank's unique entrepreneurial journey, and how he and his team have built hyper-localized OTT products in India. We discuss the chall...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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41:44
TVV EP 17 - Growing an OTT service via user-sourced subtitles
In this episode, we are joined by Omkiran (Omki) Sharma, Head of Video Engineering at Rakuten Viki. Omki discusses Viki's origin story and how their user-sourced subtitles led to explosive growth in the early years of their service. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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50:28
TVV EP 16 - Optimizing User-Generated Content for the world
In this fascinating episode, we are joined by Balu Adsumilli, Head of Media Algorithms at YouTube. In a wide-ranging discussion, he reveals how YouTube balances optimizing video quality with preserving the creative intent of their millions of c...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:06:03
TVV EP 15 - Sustainability of M&E in the cloud
In this episode, we're joined by Thomas Edwards, Principal Architect of Media and Entertainment at AWS. Here Thomas presents the current situation with regards to sustainability, and the goals set by major M&E companies. Thomas then talks a...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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33:06
TVV Ep 14 - Codec for AI, Codec of AI, Codec with AI
In this episode, Professor Maggie Zhu and her student Zhihao Duan describe the state of the art in AI codecs and their diverse applications. AI compression can be applied to video three ways: augmenting conventional video codecs, completely rep...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:03:08
TVV Ep 13 - Scaling sports video, and statistical data in the cloud.
In this episode of the Video Verse, Casey Bateman shares his insights on the challenges of migrating from H264 to HEVC and optimizing live streaming experiences. He also talks about their recent acquisition of BlueFrame Technology and how it wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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41:36
TVV Ep 12 - The evolution of web video elements with Steve Heffernan, creator of Video. JS and co-founder of Mux/Zencoder.
Welcome to our podcast! Today we have Steve Heffernan, Creator of JS and Co-Founder of Mux joining us. We'll be talking about the challenges that come with scaling video technology for websites, and how this technology has become an integral pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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50:21
TVV Ep 11 - Without challenges, we don't have anything to do.
In this episode of the Video Verse, CP (CTO of Mola) joins us to discuss how technology is impacting user engagement on platforms. From understanding metaverse and merging lean back and lean forward experiences together; to leveraging content f...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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38:40
TVV EP 10 - Tactics to implement ML in video compression and the story behind AWS Elemental's QVBR
Welcome to The Video Verse podcast, the show where we discuss everything related to video. On this episode we'll be talking about AI and machine learning and their effects on video compression with our special guest Ramzi Khsib, a Principal Sof...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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39:34
TVV EP 09 - Hybrid Video Conferencing Directions
Today on the Video Verse, we have Thomas Davies, tech lead for Visionular. He will be discussing the hybrid world of video conferencing: where it started and how its use has developed over time. In addition, he'll let us in on some of the amazi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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35:42
TVV EP 08 - Delivering 8K 50 Hz video to today's limited networks and devices.
In today's episode of the video verse, we have Jan De Cock, Director of Coding Development at Synamedia, joining us to discuss the new encoder HEVC and the complexity of delivering 8K 50 Hz video to today's limited networks and devices. While q...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:04
TVV EP 07 - Using AI and ML to scale automated video creation with Wu-Hsi Li of Firework
On average a 30-second video costs around $2,000 to produce. Trying to create thousands of videos at that rate can get quite costly. Wu0Hsi of Firework asked the question, what if we treated a video more like a script, that could be easily edit...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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39:52
TVV EP 06 - Behnam Kakavand - Low latency and ultra-low latency streaming
What variables do you need to be aware of when deciding the level of latency you need for your stream? Low and ultra-low latency is a hot topic in sports, live, poker tournaments, or online betting. Video R&D lead engineer at Evolution Gami...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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44:29
