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And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally.

How is this technically possible?



They've developed a new compression algorithm with a Weissman score of 5.2.


So the purchase price was above 10m? They turned that down when salesforce offered..


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We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.


How is this different than adaptive streaming?


If you are using FFMPEG for this, would you care to share your hack ?


One hopes Box didn't acquire a company with only a beta-invite product for simply their ffmpeg one-liners...




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