e-commerce video compression

How a Leading e-Commerce Platform Reduced Video Delivery Costs and Improved Playback Performance with Visionular

For mobile-first commerce platforms, video is one of the biggest drivers of user engagement, but it is also one of the largest contributors to infrastructure cost. As one of India's fastest-growing social commerce platforms, our client delivers millions of short-form product videos to users every day, powering product discovery, seller engagement, and conversion across the platform. As video consumption scaled rapidly, the platform faced a growing challenge: how to deliver more video, faster and at lower cost, without compromising quality. To solve this, they partnered with Visionular to optimize their video encoding and delivery architecture. The result was a meaningful reduction...

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ABS CBN Video Compression

How ABS-CBN’s iWant Scaled Global Streaming Without Increasing Distribution Costs

iWant is a global streaming platform bringing Filipino shows, movies, series, news, and live channels to audiences both in the Philippines and across the world. Launched in 2018 and operated by ABS-CBN Digital Media, a division of ABS-CBN Corporation, the platform reaches viewers on multiple continents through web, mobile, and smart TV apps. The service runs on a freemium model, offering free ad-supported content alongside subscription and pay-per-view options. Its catalog spans exclusive teleseryes, variety shows, films, and iWant Originals, all delivered securely to millions of users worldwide. Much of iWant's audience is in the Asia-Pacific region, where people primarily watch...

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Visionular Launches AI Production Platform AuroraVision at NAB Show 2026

AI-native production platform delivers Tier-1 live production quality without Tier-1 hardware. No additional cameras, no specialist operators, no hardware upgrades required.Visionular announces the commercial launch of AuroraVision, a software-defined AI production platform that gives broadcasters, OTT operators, and live-production teams the visual capabilities previously accessible only to the world’s largest productions – regardless of scale, budget, or infrastructure. AuroraVision’s greater value lies in the flexibility it brings to live production. Smooth slow-motion replay, accurate real-time object tracking, AI-driven video reframing, and 4K/8K output have traditionally required purpose-built cameras, specialised signal-chain infrastructure, and additional crew. AuroraVision makes these capabilities possible through real-time AI...

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How FanCode Delivered 1080p Quality to 160 Million Sports Fans Without Increasing Data Costs

FanCode is India's leading digital sports platform, serving more than 160 million sports enthusiasts with live and on-demand content across Formula 1, cricket, football, golf, MotoGP, and more. Launched in 2019, the platform operates under Dream Sports — the country's largest sports technology company and parent of Dream11. FanCode's audience is mobile-first, spread across urban and rural India, and intensely passionate about sport. That passion, however, coexists with a very practical constraint: data costs. For millions of fans, every gigabyte consumed matters.India's mobile streaming market presents a paradox that keeps engineering teams up at night: audiences demand premium video quality, yet...

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Not All Codec Implementations Are Equal

What We’ve Learned from the Edge Table of Contents Why Compression Needs a Second Look Now Traditional Compression is Maxed Out AI—A Smarter Way to Compress Video How Our AI-Driven Video Compression Works Why Switch Now? Use Case Snapshots Compression is Strategic Now Video consumption is exploding. From mobile-first audiences to smart TVs, streaming expectations are getting sharper, faster load times, better clarity, and zero tolerance for buffering. And yet, every byte you deliver costs money. Storage, CDN, and encoding pipelines are all under pressure. Compression is often seen as a backend optimization. But what if it’s actually a strategic lever, one that...

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Aurora-VQA: Blind Video Quality Assessment That Thinks Like Your Viewers

The Hidden Gap in Video Experience Metrics Your audience doesn’t care about PSNR or SSIM. They care about whether the video looks good and feels right, especially when watching user-generated content, live sports, or social video on the move. But most platforms still evaluate quality using outdated metrics or rely on manual QA teams and viewer complaints. It doesn’t scale. It doesn’t reflect human perception. And it leaves a massive blind spot in your video experience workflow. That’s why we built Aurora VQA, an AI-powered blind video quality assessment system that works without a reference, sees video the way humans do, and empowers...

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Transforming Remote Production: Visionular’s HEVC Technology Powers Intinor’s Next-Generation Streaming Solutions

In the competitive world of professional video streaming, Intinor stands out for delivering broadcast-quality content over standard internet connections. Its integration of Visionular's AI-powered Aurora5 HEVC codec into the Direkt link and Direkt router platforms marks a significant leap forward in remote production capabilities, enabling high-quality multi-camera streaming even in challenging network environments.Remote production teams face a common dilemma: delivering broadcast-quality video while working with limited bandwidth, particularly over 4G/5G networks. The traditional approach using H.264/AVC compression forced users to choose between quality and bandwidth efficiency—a compromise that professional broadcasters increasingly find unacceptable.  "We evaluated several HEVC solutions, but none could deliver...

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Visionular and Ant Media Announce Strategic Collaboration to Revolutionize Live Streaming and Video Compression

Los Altos, CA. and New York / Sept. 4th, 2024 / Ant Media, a leader in ultra-low latency streaming solutions, and Visionular Inc., a pioneer in AI-driven video compression technology, are thrilled to announce a strategic collaboration aimed at transforming the live streaming and video compression landscapes.  This partnership combines Ant Media’s cutting-edge streaming capabilities with Visionular’s state-of-the-art video compression technology for H.264/AVC, HEVC, and AV1, thus creating a powerful synergy that promises to   streamline live-streaming deployments  reduce the cost of doing business by cutting down on CDN and storage costs,   improve video quality, and   enhance video streaming experiences across various...

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Visionular achieves SOC2 Type 1 certification

Visionular Demonstrates Commitment to Security with SOC 2® Type I Report

Visionular Achieves SOC 2® Type I Certification, Reinforcing Industry-Leading Data Security and Compliance for Video Compression TechnologySan Francisco, CA / July 15th, 2024 / Visionular Inc., a pioneer in AI-driven video compression, has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type I audit. This achievement is part of Visionular’s company-wide commitment to ensuring it delivers the highest standards of security for customers. "Achieving SOC 2 Type I certification is a significant milestone for Visionular," said Zoe Liu, CTO and Co-Founder of Visionular. "It underscores our dedication to maintaining the highest level of security and privacy for our clients. Our customers can...

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what is capped CRF in video rate control

What is Capped CRF?

Capped CRF is a video encoding technique that combines Constant Rate Factor (CRF) rate-control with a bitrate cap (or ceiling) to be able to control the video bitrate, while maintaining the video quality at the desired level. Capped CRF is quite different from VBR rate control that prioritizes quality over hitting or staying under a specific bitrate CBR rate control that prioritizes hitting a specific bitrate over quality Capped CRF has become quite popular in the video encoding sector because it allows a video encoder to achieve a balance between video quality, file size, and bandwidth limitations, is very useful in...

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