Demuxed 2024
2024-10-16..2024-10-17
San Francisco, United States
Demuxed ·
[Demuxed 2015, Demuxed 2016, Demuxed 2017, Demuxed 2018, Demuxed 2019, Demuxed 2020, Demuxed 2021, Demuxed 2023, Demuxed 2024, Demuxed 2025]
as the organisers put it
Demuxed 2024: The 10th edition of the best damn conference in the world for video engineers. October 16th – 17th, 2024, San Francisco.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeting Bytes: Acing Cost-Efficient Video Storage | Tanushree Nori | 20m |
Vimeo discloses a concrete system: a policy calculator that models storage and retrieval costs across GCS tiers and an ML classifier that labels each video hot… | ||
| The Colorful Truth of Automated Tests | Alex Field | 10m |
Claim: player APIs lie so tests assert the screen not the player. Built encoded test streams that place six red blocks every five frames and other big color… | ||
| Does a multi-CDN setup (truly) requiring switching? | Jason Cloud, Jeff Riedmiller | 19m |
Deploying an anti-switching multi-CDN delivery platform.
It seems pretty clear that using multiple CDNs to deliver media is a good thing; but it’s hard to do… | ||
| PSSH, or the Primordial Soup of Secure Headers | Walker Griggs | 19m |
Consider our friendly, neighborhood PSSH box.
The semantics are simple -- to identify encryption keys -- but, as with any permissive specification, there’s a… | ||
| Progress and Opportunities in Video Content Authenticity | Eric Tang | 11m |
In an era where AI-generated video is rapidly becoming the norm, the need for video content authenticity has never been more critical. Over the past year… | ||
| Video Processing on Quantum Computers | Thomas Edwards | 15m |
Quantum experiments actually put images on a cloud device: a NEQR image encoding uses two qubits for X and Y, two for grayscale, compiled into about 42 steps… | ||
| Enhancing CDN Performance and Cutting Egress Costs in Large Video Libraries | Katerina Dobnerova | 10m |
Claims that global content jumps to 147 zettabytes in 2024 and that operators still target 98%+ cache hit rates drive concrete work: hierarchical tiered caches… | ||
| Your TV Is Eating Your Frames | Yingyu Yao | 20m |
Explains that TVs often break playback at the hardware layer: decoders stall on large keyframes causing dropped frames, bit rate is a poor capability signal… | ||
| Ads and overlays | Alex Giladi | 22m |
The concept of server-guided ad insertion (SGAI), first introduced by Hulu in 2019, is getting increasingly popular in the industry. It is markedly more… | ||
| Free ABR Renditions for User Generated Content Platforms | John Bowers | 11m |
Claims that on-edge encoding using OBS Studio (30 PRs merged into 302.0) plus the new Enhanced RTMP spec (multitrack video and audio, new codecs) lets… | ||
| Real-Time Video Super Resolution for Live Streaming with WebGPU | John Bartos, James Hurley | 21m |
Pipeline implements a WebGPU-powered VSR that runs on viewers' GPUs and hits real-time 60 FPS under 16.67 ms by combining bilinear pre-upscale, a small CNN on… | ||
| Innovate Live Streaming with a Client Simulator | Bruce Spang, Wei Wei | 10m |
Netflix enhances its client simulator to drive the production client with real network traces and device characteristics, letting experiments run fast and… | ||
| Token Renewal: Keeping your Streaming Party Smooth and Secured | Gwendal Simon | 12m |
Argument: the Common Access Token (CAT) spec defines renewal claims catr and catif but none of its operation modes actually satisfy the combined needs of fast… | ||
| Creative Monkeys Contemplate Dating | Will Law | 25m |
CMCD v2 claims concrete gains: required keys version s and BS force reliable startup and buffer-starvation signals, a new BSD field reports buffer starvation… | ||
| AI Enhanced GPU Video Coding: Achieving Joint High Compression Efficiency and Throughput | Zoe Liu | 22m |
We are here to present a novel approach to significantly boost video compression efficiency on Nvidia NVENC hardware encoders, by leveraging AI-driven… | ||
| Streaming in 1970s. NVP & ST: the very first real-time streaming protocols | Yuriy Reznik | 16m |
In this talk we will go back in history and look at the very first protocols and systems developed for internet streaming. The venerable NVP (network voice… | ||
| Optimizing Storage for Meta's Trillion-Video Catalog: Achieving Pareto Efficiency | Anand Vadera | 16m |
Meta manages an extensive video catalog with over a trillion videos across various products, and this number is growing daily with more than one billion new… | ||
| Bringing more versatility to VVC with VSEI | Jill Boyce | 21m |
VSEI is a companion spec to VVC that centralizes optional SEI messages so they can be referenced by VVC H.264 HEVC and future codecs its second and third… | ||
| Compression of stereoscopic video with MV-HEVC: fundamentals, tools and development | Matteo Naccari | 12m |
Multiview (e.g. stereoscopic) content provides users with a fully immersive and compelling quality of experience when watching videos. This type of content is… | ||
| What's on TV? 4 editors and 2 robots walk into a bar... | Tracey Jaquith | 10m |
Using TV news "chyron" text overlays in the "lower third" (from human editors), image-to-text (OCR), grouping/filtering, and AI gpt to summarize - we social… | ||
| A hitchhiker's guide to AV1 deployment | Li-Heng Chen, Ryan Lei | 24m |
Six years since its inception as a video coding standard stipulated by the Alliance for Open Media, AV1 has proven its capability as a Swiss Army knife, with… | ||
| Replacing WebRTC with Media over QUIC | Luke Curley | 21m |
It's been over a decade since WebRTC was released. Surely there's something new on the horizon, right?
Media over QUIC is an IETF working group that is… | ||
| Demuxed 2024 Lightning Talks | 45m | |
Common Access Tokens (CAT) emerge from Wave Group work started in 2021 as a media-focused standard to address the fact that 35% of services use multiple CDNs… | ||
| Measuring live video quality with minimal complexity, now available for everyone! | Jan De Cock | 12m |
Claims that ML can predict VMAF and SSIM from encoder internals with high fidelity, using shallow networks and features like motion stats, blur, QP and decoded… | ||
| Pseudo-Interstitials: Playback flexibility for legacy devices | Tony McNamara | 15m |
Interstitials allow the insertion of content by reference into a playback stream, and are especially useful when a playlist won't work. But Interstitials are… | ||
| A taxonomy of video "quality," or: was Strobe right or wrong about quality? | Jon Dahl | 22m |
“Quality” is one of the most abused and overloaded terms in video. Orwell says that unclear language leads to unclear thinking, and: wow, our industry suffers… | ||
| Be the change you want to see: How to contribute to FFmpeg | Vanessa Pyne, Derek Buitenhuis | 13m |
Have you ever written code you wanted to contribute to FFmpeg, but you got a little tripped up in the send-email situation or maybe you got some feedback you… | ||
| The Long(est) Night | Fabio Sonnati | 13m |
April 28, 2019, a phone call wakes me in the middle of the night: "TheLong Night", a new episode of the final season of Game of Thrones is airing, but nothing… | ||
| How to play Dash on your HLS Player | Constanza Dibueno | 08m |
What if I told you that you could play a DASH video seamlessly in an HLS player?
In today's broadcasting landscape, interoperability is a challenge. Reaching… | ||
| Why is gapless so hard? | Steve Robertson | 24m |
Explains that padding and codec lag force encoders to add zeros or LPC tails, that padding must be trimmed and timestamps adjusted, and DRM/AC3 pass‑through… | ||
| nothing matches | ||