Enhancing Video Streaming Quality for Exoplayer -- Part 2: Buffering Strategy to Lower Startup Time and Video On-Demand Rebuffering

The first part of this blog series discussed about the quality of user experience QoE metrics and two strategies that heavily influence the QoE: the bitrate selection...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

October 2019 - What's New in Media?

Today, Akamai announced the October 2019 Release, which introduces new capabilities to our Media product line with a focus on helping customers accelerate their cloud transformation using the power of the edge. Within Media, the new enhancements are highlighted by: Scalable forensic watermarking...

Optimizing Video Streaming Performance with Origin-Assisted Prefetching

Online video streaming is everywhere today. It's available on the smallest hand-held devices to the largest of screens in our living rooms. Magically and for the most part, it works and provides a very captivating experience. However, if you step back to look at the overall architecture, media...

Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer - Part 1: Quality of User Experience Metrics

Authors: Mark Greve, Domițian Tămaș-Selicean The online video player landscape is fragmented with a wide variety of players across a mix of popular platforms. In the world of HTML5-video players in browsers, there are a number of open-source solutions e.g., hls.js, dash.js, Shaka Player, as well ...

Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer - Part 1: Quality of User Experience Metrics

The online video player landscape is fragmented with a wide variety of players across a mix of popular platforms. In the world of HTML5-video players in browsers, there are a number of open-source solutions e.g., hls.js, dash.js, Shaka Player, as well as commercial offerings which include Akamai'...

CVE-2019-6957

A recently discovered security vulnerability affects all Bosch Video Management System BVMS versions 9.0 and below, DIVAR IP 2000, 3000, 5000 and 7000, Video Recording Manager VRM, Video Streaming Gateway VSG, Configuration Manager, Building Integration System BIS with Video Engine, Access...

PT-2019-18377 · Bosch · Video Sdk +9

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bosch Video Management System BVMS versions 9.0 and below DIVAR IP versions 2000 through 7000 Video Recording Manager VRM Video Streaming Gateway VSG Configuration Manager Building Integration System BIS with Video Engine Access Professional...

Ensure Highly Reliable First Mile Connectivity with Akamai Direct Connect

As linear OTT video services become mainstream, many broadcasters and online video distributors are increasingly looking for new ways to enhance service reliability. Many who manage their own origin infrastructures within a datacenter environment are seeking added assurance for ingest of their...

Streamline OTT Delivery using Cloud Origins with Cloud Wrapper

By 2020, an estimated 92% of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centers. The emergence of public cloud providers has changed the way organizations build, deploy and manage their applications and workflows. For organizations that've made the decision to move their video workflows to the...

Tailor Video Experiences for Your End Viewers with Manifest Personalization

While the number of online viewers continues to grow, content providers must be able to deliver high quality video streams, flawlessly at scale to meet the demands of these audiences. This is no small task as high volumes of requests often come from various locations, diverse device types and...

Teradek VidiU Pro 3.0.3 CSRF Change Password Exploit

Summary The Teradek VidiU gives you the freedom to broadcast live high definition video directly to the Web without a PC. Whether you're streaming out of a video switcher or wirelessly from your camera, VidiU allows you to go live when you want, where you want. VidiU offers API level integration...

Teradek T-RAX 7.3.2 (snapshot.cgi) Stream Disclosure

Teradek T-RAX 7.3.2 snapshot.cgi Stream Disclosure Vendor: Teradek, LLC Product web page: https://www.teradek.com Affected version: Firmware Version: 7.3.2 build 24453 Teradek Firmware Version 7.3.15 Summary: T-RAX is a high-density enterprise-grade H.264 platform that encodes, decodes, and strea...

Media Streaming add-on cross-site scripting vulnerability

QNAP NAS application Media Streaming add-on is a video streaming loading application for QNAP NAS devices from QNAP Systems. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in QNAP NAS application Media Streaming add-on version 21.1.0.2 and earlier and version 430.1.2.0 and earlier. A remote attacker...

TP-LINK NC250 Certification Bypass Vulnerability

TP-Link NC250 is a network camera product from China P&L TP-LINK. An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the TP-LINK NC250. The vulnerability is exploited by 攻击者可借助rtsp://admin@yourip:554/h264hd.sdp URL to view video and audio without authorization...

Peplink 7.0.0-build1904 XSS / CSRF / SQL Injection / File Deletion

X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory: X41-2017-005 Multiple Vulnerabilities in peplink balance routers =================================================== Overview -------- Confirmed Affected Versions: 7.0.0-build1904 Confirmed Patched Versions:...

Netflix's HTTPS Update Can't Combat Passive Traffic Analysis Attacks

Academics argue that Netflix’s recent upgrade to HTTPS is doing little to protect its users from a passive traffic analysis attack. According to Andrew Reed and Michael Kranch, researchers with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, it wouldn’t take much work for an attacker to capture traffic...

live.ly - live video streaming - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application live.ly - live video streaming published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

RTMPDump librtmp Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-04326)

RTMPDump is a toolkit for working with RTMP a network protocol used to transmit video and audio data over the Internet. librtmp is one of the libraries that supports the RTMP protocol. A security vulnerability exists in RTMPDump version 2.4 in librtmp version 1.0 in rtmpsrv. An attacker can explo...

WordPress S3Bubble Amazon S3 Video And Audio Streaming With Analytics Plugin Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.S3Bubble Amazon S3 Video And Audio Streaming With Analytics is a plugin for getting secure streaming from Amazon S3 to the Wordpress website in a plugin...