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
67 episodes
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, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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14:44
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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12:20
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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7:09
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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9:33
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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21:00
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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17:33
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 (
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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7:54
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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9:50
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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8:59
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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17:43
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
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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22:40
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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19:33
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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13:46
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) -...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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18:42
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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10:09
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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43:59
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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44:40
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
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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52:42
Training Your Own LLM: The Untapped Value of Media Archives
The AI revolution in media production is moving beyond marketing hype into practical applications delivering real value. Ryan Jesperson from Cires21<...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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40:20
The Engine Isn’t Enough: Building Robust Media Frameworks Around the VPU
The beating heart of every video streaming service is its encoding technology, but raw power alone isn't enough to deliver exceptional viewer experiences. In this eye-opening conversation, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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46:41
Silicon Showdown: CPUs, GPUs, and VPUs Battle for Data Center Dominance
Hybrid cloud infrastructure has finally arrived for video streaming, and it's transforming how organizations balance performance, cost, and sovereignty requirements. In this enlightening conversation with
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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53:20
Pixels, Profits, and Processing: The Hidden Economics of Streaming
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when your favorite streaming platform adds thousands of classic films overnight? The challenges are far more complex than most realize.
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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59:52
Mini Box, Massive Impact: How Advantech and NETINT built a compact edge server for high-performance streaming.
Dom Mrakuzic from Advantech joins Voices of Video to unveil how this revolu...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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41:08
From Gaming to Streaming: How i3DNet's Hybrid Infrastructure Breaks Vendor Lock-in
As the second most peered network globally with over 65 points of presence worldwide, i3DNet has built something remarkable - an infrastructure designed to satisfy gaming's most demanding users that now powers millions of concurrent streams on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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39:40
Save 66%: Why Your Video Streaming Budget is Going Up in Smoke
The numbers are staggering: using AWS Media Live for HD video processing costs approximately $10,117 per stream over three years, while the NetInsight/NetInt solution delivers the same capabilities for around $3,500 – a reduction of 66-70%. The...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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31:42
