Fabio Sonnati
@sonnati
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Consultant, Engineer, blogger / speaker, expert in streaming and encoding
Italy
Joined July 2009
In 2021 I celebrate a professional achievement: 10 years of NTT Data Hyper. A high quality, high performance, hybrid-cloud transcoder, built facing the challenges of the last decade... https://t.co/tRwJywaVUS
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Who follows me since the years of Flash Player and Adobe Media Server knows that I’ve been busy in the last 15 years developing encoders, players and in general software architectures to enab…
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In today’s streaming war, keeping viewers hooked isn’t optional — it’s survival. But what really drives engagement? And why does it have such a massive impact on churn? https://t.co/r7XvMUWaw9
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[Note: Article originally published on linkedin]In the hyper-competitive world of video streaming, keeping subscribers engaged isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s crucial. Engagement is inv…
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Analyzing the encoding strategies of top streaming services is key for staying competitive. Here's a look at how they manage content-aware encoding, and quality/bitrate ratio https://t.co/nOxEiLi2Rg
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The picture shows a video conference application I developed in 2004. The particularity was the possibility to show to remote audience our own real desktop using a “document cam” and compare with that of other partecipants in split screen.
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Announcing OPT-IML: a new language model from Meta AI with 175B parameters, fine-tuned on 2,000 language tasks — openly available soon under a noncommercial license for research use cases. Research paper & more details on GitHub ⬇️
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2002, Macromedia released Flash Communication Server, a milestone in modern video streaming. After 20 years RTMP, one of its foundational technology, is still among us… https://t.co/UaHi8ZL9n8
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I remember clearly the enthusiasm and excitement when I moved my first steps in streaming and real-time communication. I was already fond of video compression and interactive web and was working ac…
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I believe @platformatic db is the next big thing in building quickly and retain control over complexity! Great job @matteocollina and team!!!
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Things to do before unveiling the first @platformatic OSS tool: 1. take daughter to pre-school 👨👧 2. Prep GitHub repo 3. Website Website Website fixes (thanks @docusaurus) 4. Record video with @loom 5. Npm publish (thankfully the blog post is already written).
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In this article I propose a method of "auto-similarity" to detect artifacts like banding and blocking in video https://t.co/FGWpDmTcs3
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Recently Banding has finally become an hot topic in encoding optimization. As discussed in this previous post, it is nowadays one of the worst enemy for an encoding expert especially when trying to…
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In this article I propose a method of "auto-similarity" to detect artifacts like banding and blocking in video https://t.co/FGWpDmTcs3
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Recently Banding has finally become an hot topic in encoding optimization. As discussed in this previous post, it is nowadays one of the worst enemy for an encoding expert especially when trying to…
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Today is Labor Day in the U.S. I wish for all workers everywhere that we will all find work that is meaningful and joyful.
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The File Format group at @MPEGgroup is responsible for many standards, e.g. the Emmy-winning #ISOBMFF or #HEIF. It is sometime difficult for non-MPEG members to follow. Now, it should be easier. A public page https://t.co/AjOH7Vju5Y tracks what's happening. Hope it helps!
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Glad we got excellent blogs that won the MHV’22 award. Be ready for next year’s edition.
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The worst in OSS is when a Big Tech Company runs a project, they don’t accept external contributions and they don’t even engage in issues… because priorities? Even directly reaching out to people would not have a response :(. Everything goes to /dev/null.
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Looks like Dolby is going full stream (!) on Cloud. Welcome to the Club. No Harmonic hires please!
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Looks like Dolby is going full stream (!) on Cloud. Welcome to the Club. No Harmonic hires please!
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You all have been waiting for the best blog nomination in the video space forever. MHV/2022 organizers are happy to announce nominations for the Best Video Blog Awards for the year 2021, and you have until February 7th to apply.
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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We know how difficult is to find good contents when there are too many out there Today, I'm glad to announce Let's Architect! an AWS blog series made by #AWS Solutions Architects to all the builders and #architect
https://t.co/nF0tMUvqnW
#architecture #architect #cloud 🧵👇
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We often read news about sustainability and how governments and large corporations are working to build a better world for the future. But, have you ever asked yourself what you can do? As a software...
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New on my blog: « Core Technologies for Streaming Workflows, in 2021 and Beyond » or how to (finally) make streaming as reliable and scalable as broadcast with cutting edge standards https://t.co/2nJExGSbQm
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