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Using Raspberry PI in Virtualization: Unlocking New Possibilities

DZone

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware. Nevertheless, their adaptability and affordability have prompted their adoption in several projects and applications, including robotics, media centers, and home automation.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes.

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

AV1 is made possible by the wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and intellectual property within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), of which Netflix is a founding member. AV1 is a high performance, royalty-free video codec that provides 20% improved compression efficiency over our VP9† encodes.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

Hardware video decoders need to know in advance the resolution and bit depth of the video streams to allocate their decoding buffers. The Media Systems team at Netflix actively contributes to the development, the maintenance, and the adoption of ISOBMFF. That is where standards play a key role. Brands are nested.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Video Encoding and Media Cloud Engineering Our team takes care of encoding (and re-encoding) the Netflix catalog, as well as leveraging machine learning for insights into that catalog.