Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS –2nd of June 2015
maxdome, Germany’s most popular online video platform, has selected Unified Streaming, a leading provider of cross-platform streaming technologies for streaming Widevine Modular encrypted MPEG-DASH to address Google Chrome users.
The requirements were straightforward: as Google announced to drop support for the NPAPI standard in Chrome, maxdome was looking for a solution to stream MPEG-DASH with Widevine Modular to satisfy customers using Google Chrome with the new maxdome HTLM5 MPEG DASH player. As Unified Streaming supports MPEG DASH since 2011 the real challenge was to create CENC encrypted MPEG DASH streams from a PlayReady encrypted catalogue without re-packaging or re-encoding. maxdome’s catalogue of more than 60,000 titles is stored pre-encrypted and re-encoding the catalogue would have led to doubling storage capacity and long time-to-market, which was unacceptable for maxdome.
Unified Streaming solved the puzzle for maxdome by deploying Unified Origin in combination with a unique feature called “PIFF2CENC”. As the name suggests it allows for streaming Common Encrypted (CENC) DASH from a PlayReady encrypted (PIFF) Microsoft Smooth catalogue. It does the conversion on the fly in a full dynamic fashion. There are various advantages like: no need for re-packaging or re-encoding, no need for extra storage and quick time-to-market.
“More and more we see content providers taking ownership of parts in the delivery chain to reduce overall cost and increase flexibility” said Simon Westbroek, VP Global Sales Unified Streaming. “We are very excited that we could help maxdome in solving the challenges around DRM-fragmentation.”
About Maxdome
A ProSiebenSat.1 Group company, maxdome is Germany’s largest online video library and offers a wide variety of feature films, series, comedy shows, documentaries, and special children’s programming – a total of more than 60,000 titles of the best entertainment. maxdome is now integrated on nearly all new hybrid TVs. This gives users the ability to access content directly in their living room on their own television. Users can continue to access content via PCs and laptops or via mobile devices. Videos can be downloaded from maxdome individually in the store or by subscription in the maxdome monthly package. As with a DVD, programs can be viewed as often as desired.
About Unified Streaming
Unified Streaming is a leading provider of cross-platform video-streaming technologies. Dedicated to helping companies create and execute smart video-streaming technologies, Unified Streaming products are in operation around the world, with customers ranging from broadcast networks and online content distributors to small companies and web casters.
Unified Streaming solutions fit into existing frameworks (Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Nginx), thus, allowing for greater return on existing investment. Unified Streaming (USP) provides streaming from one encode simultaneously to multiple players and devices. In combination with various DRM technologies, this enables Unified Streaming customers to significantly reduce delivery cost and boost time to market, in order to address a broader audience.
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