Category: AWS Elemental MediaPackage

At this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will showcase how its latest innovations are helping customers: speed up how they create content, reduce costs with as they connect workflows, and maximize the value of their content while they captivate audiences. IBC 2025 will also serve as a moment to […]

Elemental Technologies was already making history in video processing when Amazon Web Services (AWS) acquired it in September 2015. Elemental pioneered accelerating live and on-demand video processing using GPU-based appliances, and in 2014 launched Elemental Delta, a video delivery platform providing next-generation TV services. Ten years later, and supercharged by the cloud, AWS Elemental is […]

Meeting customers at different stages of their streaming journey, we often see two distinct paths emerge: Traditional broadcasters looking to modernize their infrastructure, and digital-native companies wanting to add interactive streaming features. What unites them is the need to deliver high-quality, reliable streaming experiences to their audiences. The right Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution reduces […]

This blog is co-authored by José Somolinos, Portfolio Manager – XR, AI & Innovation, Accedo, and Christian Marko, Chief Innovation Officer, Stats Perform. Figure 1: Accedo Xtend headset experience. The convergence of cloud computing and advanced viewing technologies is revolutionizing how we experience sports and media content. Through extended reality (XR) headsets and smart glasses, […]

Introducing new functionality in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaPackage v2 for DVB-DASH and EBU-TT-D support. These standards, working together, are particularly important because they form the backbone of modern European broadcast streaming. They help ensure high-quality, accessible content delivery, while maintaining professional broadcast standards in the streaming era. DVB-DASH DVB-DASH (Digital Video Broadcasting-Dynamic Adaptive […]

Today’s streaming platforms handle both high-value media, like premium sports, and confidential information, such as enterprise video communications. This evolution requires that the underlying infrastructure be protected with enterprise-grade security. Streaming is now essential infrastructure for businesses far beyond traditional media. It powers critical operations across industries, including secure financial announcements, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine, global manufacturing […]

As the demand for live video streams grows rapidly, broadcasters and producers face significant complexity and cost challenges to make the content available for global, multi-lingual audiences. Live dubbing the audio track to another spoken language has traditionally been a highly manual process, which adds significant cost and complexity for producers. Thanks to the latest […]

Managing encrypted Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConnect entitlements across AWS accounts can be challenging, particularly when dealing with secret strings and upstream changes. We will demonstrate, with code examples, how AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) can be leveraged to create a pattern for securing the sharing of secret strings. It will also provide […]

In the first part of this series, Back to basics; Accessibility services for Media, we reviewed the accessibility services available for broadcast and streaming today. In this second part we plan look at how these accessibility requirements can be met using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental Media Services. In many countries regulators require Broadcasters to […]

Media streaming applications face increasing security challenges from unauthorized content access and redistribution. We’ll examine common security threats to streaming workflows and provide practical solutions to protect content using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Security challenges in media streaming When your streaming application lacks proper security measures, unauthorized users can: Access and redistribute your content without […]