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Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite

The Netflix TechBlog

The opportunity is clear: streamline complex media management logistics, eliminate tedious, non-creative task-based work and enable productions to focus on what matters mostcreative storytelling. With these challenges in mind, Netflix has developed a suite of tools by filmmakers for filmmakers: the Media Production Suite(MPS).

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding? Video encoding using a conventional video codec, like AV1.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. That is where standards play a key role. Brands are nested.

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Designing Instagram

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User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. media search index, locations search index, and so forth) in future. For instance, the LikeEvent can be read by the Media Counter Service and is used to update the media count in the data storage.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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