Voices of Video
Explore the inner workings of video technology with Voices of Video: Inside the Tech. This podcast gathers industry experts and innovators to examine every facet of video technology, from decoding and encoding processes to the latest advancements in hardware versus software processing and codecs. Alongside these technical insights, we dive into practical techniques, emerging trends, and industry-shaping facts that define the future of video.
Ideal for engineers, developers, and tech enthusiasts, each episode offers hands-on advice and the in-depth knowledge you need to excel in today’s fast-evolving video landscape. Join us to master the tools, technologies, and trends driving the future of digital video.
Episodes
73 episodes
The Encoder Got Faster While You Slept | How VPUs On Akamai Cloud Change The Cost And Scale Of Video Encoding
Cloud video infrastructure is getting squeezed from both sides: audiences expect better quality and more formats like AV1, while finance teams are staring down cloud bills that don’t scale with reality.We sit down with Sarah Walter from ...
Swapping the Engine While It Runs | How Video Platforms Introduce Hardware Acceleration Without Breaking Production
Swapping the engine while it runs sounds risky - and in production video systems, it is.Hardware acceleration often gets positioned as “faster encoding,” but that’s not what makes engineering teams hesitate. The real challenge is introdu...
You Bought A VPU, Now Where Are The Brakes | Anatomy Of A Video Streaming Stack
The hardest part of streaming isn’t picking a codec or buying faster hardware. It’s making the whole system work together.In this episode of Voices of Video, Mark Donnigan from NETINT sits ...
What If Efficiency Means Headroom Not Speed
The fastest benchmark number is comforting right up until your video system meets the real world.Staging looks stable. Charts look clean. Then production introduces variability at scale: messy networks, mixed content, thermal constraints...
Ramageddon Meets Video Encoding Reality | When Video Becomes The New Data Center Fuel
“Ramageddon” is what happens when memory pricing goes vertical and suddenly your infrastructure plans no longer pencil out.In this episode of Voices of Video, we talk with Dell Technologies...
Designing Video Systems Around Latency Constraints
Your neighbor cheered before your stream - now what?In this episode of Voices of Video, we move past the generic advice to “make it faster” and dig into why late...
Your Buffering Wheel Is Not a Feature: Why Real-Time Video Lives at the Edge
Real conversation dies the moment latency enters the room.In this episode of Voices of Video, we break down what truly separates traditional streaming from interactive streaming and why the old playbook of centralized encoding, ...
When Video Leaves the Studio: Building Low-Power, High-Density Systems That Scale
What if live video could be small, cool, and endlessly reliable, whether you’re in an OB van, an operating room, or a rail yard? We take you from the edge to the cloud and back again, showing how compact encoders and long-life servers turn cons...
Borrow the Brainpower: How Outsourcing Cuts Costs and Ships Faster
Want to move faster without burning out your core team? In this episode, we unpack what it really means to borrow the brainpower—using managed services to turn cost savings into real product speed. By pairing immediate access to specia...
AI Hype vs. Broadcast Reality: Why FFmpeg Alone Isn’t Enough
The promise of “just add AI” sounds great until your live feed is eight seconds behind and the subtitles miss the moment.In this episode of Voices of Video, we confront the gap between AI hype and broadcast reality. From FFmp...
Trust, Footprint, and Milliseconds: The Real Levers of Live Streaming
What if your live stream could feel instant, look sharper at the same bitrate, and cost less to run as you scale?In this episode of Voices of Video, we unpack how a fast-growing live gaming...
Rethinking Live Publishing: Templates, Roles, and Hybrid Control
What does it take to run hundreds of live events without chaos? In this episode, we open up the architecture behind G&L’s Playout Hub - a hybrid publishing engine designed for broadcasters, public institutions, and distributed editorial tea...
Scaling Video at the Edge: A Practical Roadmap
Viewers won’t wait for your pipeline to catch up. This episode breaks down a practical roadmap for scaling video at the edge - where power limits, bandwidth costs, and live latency collide. With Advantech’s rugged, modular platforms (
The New Economics of Transcoding: How VPUs Unlock FAST, AVOD & Back-Catalog Revenue
What if transcoding stopped being the constraint and became the engine behind your content strategy? In this episode, Arcadian’s Joe Waltzer and Josh Pesigan explain how Video Processing Units (VPUs) are transforming the economics and timing of...
So You Want A VPU? Here’s The No-Drama Way To Plug, Play, And Push To Your CDN
Tired of choosing between ripping out your video stack or standing still? In this episode, Kenneth Robinson, Director of Field Application Engineers at NETINT, walks through a practical playbook for deploying Video Processing Units (VPUs) at an...
Synchronizing 20 Perspectives: The Future Of Multi-View Esports
Cameras miss moments; fans don’t. We wanted every decisive peek, every clutch revive, and every chaotic final ring in Apex Legends to be watchable from any team’s perspective - live, synchronized, and affordable. That meant re...
Your Sports Car Is Cool, But The Taxi Wins On Power Bills
What if your heaviest video jobs spun up in seconds, sipped power, and scaled wherever your viewers are?In this episode, we run NETINT VPUs inside
Cloud Bills Made You Cry? Gamers Already Fixed That
Ever notice how interactive video feels great one moment and laggy the next? We dig into why - and what it takes to make streams feel as immediate and fair as a top-tier multiplayer game.Coming from a gaming-first background, we...
From Campbell to Codensity: A Practical Hero’s Journey in Video Encoding
What if a hardware roadmap could read like a myth? We take Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and map it to a concrete engineering pivot - from life in the ordinary ...
Hyperscale for Video | Stop Asking GPUs to Be Everything at Once
What if video finally got its own processor, and your streaming costs dropped while quality and features went up?In this episode, we dig into the rise of the Video Processing Unit (VPU) -...
Energy Is the New Bottleneck in Live Video | Why VPUs Beat GPUs for Low-Res ABR at 4–6x Energy Savings
Live video is exploding, power budgets are shrinking, and the old “throw more GPU at it” mindset is breaking. We dig into the real constraint behind streaming at scale - energy - and share new data showing how VPUs can deliver 4–6x better effic...
The TikTok of Live TV | Swipe, Watch, Repeat
When Ignacio "Nacho" Opazo opened his laptop in 2011, he wasn't just writing code, but rather, he was laying the foundation for what would become Latin America's pioneering OTT platform. A mu...
Watts Up With Your Encoder? Akamai & Cires21 Benchmark VPUs vs. GPUs
Energy efficiency is quickly becoming the new battleground in video processing infrastructure, and a groundbreaking benchmark study has revealed just how dramatic the differences can be between competing technologies. In this eye-opening conver...
Efficiency, Economics, and Innovation - Transforming Video Architectures
The economics of video delivery are changing dramatically, forcing media companies to rethink their entire approach to content distribution architecture. In this fascinating roundtable discussion, leaders from
