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

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

Between the 6th and the 12th of July, The Hulu Design Team picked up their pen and wrote about the "Ten Feet Experience". They get the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!Widevine posted their quarterly update.IAB posted some afterthoughts on an SSAI workshop.Browsers Source

This is what changed between the 29th of June and the 6th of July: Browsers Source Date Item Safari 2020-06-28 Safari 14 Beta Release NotesSupports HTTP/3.Drop support for Flash.Support HDR video playback.Support Picture-in-Picture on iOS iPhone Chromium 2020-06-25 Changes to

Between the 22nd and 28th of June, Google let us know we can test Android 11 on the Android TV.The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to Apple! Apple shared their Safari 14 Beta release notes: no more Flash, HDR support, PiP on iPhone, and

Between the 15th and 21st of June, VHS dropped v2.0, FFmpeg 4.3, GPAC 1.0. Busy times!Hotstar, Mux, Showmax and THEOplayer wrote interesting blog posts. (THEOplayer snatches the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball with their article on the history of Low Latency HLS.

So you're probably wondering what happened in OTT between the 8th and 14th of June? Apple improved their video handling. Check out their 108 patch notes if you were struggling with PiP, fullscreen and switches between unencrypted and encrypted content.HLS.js went into

Between the 1st and 7th of June, the video streaming didn't do a whole lot. More important things are happening in the world, and if we would be awarding any Weekly Golden Ball, it would go to the protesters addressing the murder of George

The industry was busy between the 25th and 31st of May. Google did a little throwback to the birth of WebM and VP8 in 2010. It's a fun little article, so we'll award it the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball!Crunchyroll published a quality post on

Between the 18th and 24th of May: JW Player took their FireTV release notes offline.AWS posted a lot of articles on their blog.Bitmovin published a neat introduction article on upscaling video content, and grab the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball.Mux published a neat

Between the 11th and 17th of May, a lot of new patches got pushed compared to the previous weeks. (Did people adjust to the new normal?) The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to... Mux' "Russia With Love: How ClickHouse Saved our Data" for being a

This is what happened between 4 and 10 May, 2020. The 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball goes to FireTV. Amazon is trying something new with their "Linear Television Integration". They want to aggregate data on live TV channels, and display EPG data outside of the app.

The HLS specification now mentions "Low Latency" mode (AKA LL-HLS), so Apple gets the 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball.  Huray! What else is new between 27 April - 3 May? Browsers Source Date Item Chromium 2020-04-29 Keeping spam off the Chrome Web StorePolicy changes to Chrome

It was uneventful between the 20th and the 26th of April. No 🥎 Weekly Golden Ball this week! Browsers Source Date Item WebKit 2020-04-23 Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 105 Safari 2020-04-26 Safari 13.1 Release NotesAdded support for Picture-in-Picture API.Speed improvements. Company

This is what changed in online video between the 13th and the 19th of April. DASH-IF releases CPIX v2.3 for community review.🥎 GPAC's core gets a rewrite in 0.9.0. (Their first release since 27-Jun-2019, so definitely worthy of the Weekly Golden

This is what happened in online video between 6 and 12 April in 2020. 🥎 The Fraunhofer FOKUS Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) gets our Weekly Golden Ball. (Not for their new article, but because it's a newcomer in the list, and because