Scroll down to see what's new between the 28th of December and the 3rd of January. I'm going to start with a roundup of 2020. Thanks for tuning in. 🙏 Bye-bye, 2020! What did I learn from doing "The OTT Changelog" for one year? What

Not much has happened during the holidays between the 21st and 27th of December.. Company Blogs Source Date Item Disney Streaming Services 2020-12-22 Hacking Together in a Remote WorldDisney+ hackathon outcome: "song tab", "Picture-in-Picture sign language video", "remote pairing

This is what happened between the 15th and 20th of December! Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Beta 2020-12-15 85.0betaNo real changes. Firefox Nightly 2020-12-15 86.0a1No real changes AFAIK. Firefox Nightly News 2020-12-18 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 85Nothing special. Company Blogs Source

What's up with OTT between the 7th and 13rd of December? Browsers Source Date Item WebKit 2020-12-10 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 117Some changes to WebRTC and Media, but nothing noteworthy. Company Blogs Source Date Item Bitmovin 2020-12-08 Bring Your Own Cloud: Introduction

So, 30th of November until the 6th of December! Organizations Source Date Item Google Developers Blog 2020-12-01 Aligning thousands of Billie Eilish covers in an infinite music video experimentInfinite music videos with smooth transitions. Pretty cool! Check out at https://billie.withyoutube.com/. Company

So, what happened between the 23rd and 29th of November? Browsers Source Date Item WebKit 2020-11-23 MediaRecorder APIPretty cool, right!? Company Blogs Source Date Item Bitmovin 2020-11-24 Video Tech Deep Dive: Super-Resolution with Machine Learning Part 3 Mux 2020-11-23 Mux Data, now twice as

This is what happened between the 16th and 22nd of November. Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Beta 2020-11-17 84.0betaFF 84 is the final version to support Flash. Firefox Nightly 2020-11-16 85.0a1Flash is no longer supported. Firefox Nightly News 2020-11-18 These Weeks in

This is what happened between the 9th and 15th of November. Company Blogs Source Date Item AWS Media 2020-11-12 Encode video in a smarter way using Automated ABR Bitmovin 2020-11-12 How to Trust Your Player: Protecting Content from Origination to Playback Mux 2020-11-11 It’

This is what happened between the 1st and 8th of November. Company Blogs Source Date Item Eyevinn Technology 2020-11-07 The shopping malls of video entertainment Hotstar 2020-11-02 Watch Hotstar, Watch your friendsHotstar on their watch together feature. Encoders, Transcoders, Packagers Source Date Item Bitmovin

This is what happened between the 26th of October and the 1st of November. Company Blogs Source Date Item AWS Media 2020-10-28 PixelStrings®: a cloud-based media conversion platform powered by industry standard tools Bitmovin 2020-10-27 How to Trust Your Player #4: Beyond DRM – Video

This is what happened between the 19th and the 25th of October. Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Beta 2020-10-20 83.0beta Firefox Nightly 2020-10-19 84.0a1 Firefox Nightly News 2020-10-21 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 82 Edge 2020-10-19 Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability

This is what happened between the 12th and the 18th of October. Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Nightly News 2020-10-13 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 81 Company Blogs Source Date Item THEOplayer 2020-10-12 Going Big Screen: Bringing Video to Samsung's TizenGood intro to app

This is what happened between the 5th and the 11th of October. Browsers Source Date Item Chromium 2020-10-07 Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUICRead up at https://blog.chromium.org/2020/10/chrome-is-deploying-http3-and-ietf-quic.html. WebKit 2020-10-08 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview

This is what happened between the 28th of September and the 4th of October. Browsers Source Date Item Edge 2020-10-01 Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio CodeDev tools in Visual Studio? Pretty interesting move. Could make a batch of devs prefer Edge

So what's new between the 21st and 27th of September? Well... The <video>-dev community had their 24h global livestream. That was pretty cool! The Google Sheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13zZyjcA2tfX-T9woz6Xj1ZwNLGkVSTyxQHm9XKQwpuw/edit?usp=sharing contains an overview of

This is what happened between the 14th and 20th of September. Chromecast changes to iOS 14.User-agent of Chrome is changing on iOS.Browsers Source Date Item Chromium 2020-09-14 Changing the Chrome on iOS User Agent for Request Desktop SiteUser agent is changing as

7-13 September was pretty slow! Feel free to skip this one – you won't miss much. Browsers Source Date Item WebKit 2020-09-09 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 113Enable H.264 low latency code path by default for macOS.Changes to WebRTC. Organizations Source Date

Interesting things happened between the 31st of August and 6th of September. Seems like Summer is over? Microsoft updated their stance on Flash. Summary: support for Flash will be dropped in 2021, but their are alternatives for enterprise users.Chromium 86: preservesPitch property, VP9

This is what happened between the 24th and 30th of August. Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Beta 2020-08-25 81.0betaUsers can control media playback through hardware controls. (e.g. keyboard, headset, ...)Improvements to video playback quality. Firefox Nightly 2020-08-25 82.0a1 Organizations Source Date

Between the 16th and 23rd of August, Apple hinted that they're all in on VP9?Android wrote an article on APIs which help make Android 11 more suitable as a media system.TypeScript 4 came out.What news did we miss this week? Tweet

Not much happened between the 10th and 16th of August. Sorry! We'll do better next week? Company Blogs Source Date Item AWS Media 2020-08-12 WarnerMedia presents its cloud-based linear playout system using AWS Media ServicesCheck out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMK2NJ-q9nc.HBO

This is what happened between the 3rd and 9th of August: Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Nightly News 2020-08-07 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 77FF is still experimenting with their native controls. Check out https://pip-toggle-experiment-demo.glitch.me/. Organizations Source Date Item Google Developers

Between the 27th of July and the 2nd of August, Mux did a quality post about colorspaces in browser. Worthy of the  🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!Bitmovin's encoder added support for Dolby Atmos.Apple posted a huge article on "Speculation in JavaScriptCore", which is pretty

Not a lot happened between the 20th and 26th of July to be honest. There's a new Editor's Draft of EME at https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/ though! Browsers Source Date Item Chromium 2020-07-23 Chrome 85: Upload Streaming, Human Interface Devices, Custom Properties with

Between the 13th and 19th of July, Amazon released a low-latency product based on the Twitch stack.Firefox is rethinking the discoverability of their PiP feature.Browsers Source Date Item Firefox Nightly News 2020-07-17 These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 76They're checking how to improve