HTML5 Video is now supported in Firefox

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of our HTML5 player in Firefox! Windows support is rolling out this week, and OS X support will roll out next year.Firefox ships with the very latest versions of the HTML5 Premium Video Extensions. That includes the Media Source Extensions (MSE), which enable our video streaming algorithms to...

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An update to our Windows 10 app

We have published a new version of our Windows 10 app to the Windows Store. This update features an updated user experience that is powered by an entirely new implementation on the Universal Windows Platform.The New User ExperienceThe updated Browse experience provides vertical...

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Per-Title Encode Optimization

We’ve spent years developing an approach, called per-title encoding, where we run analysis on an individual title to determine the optimal encoding recipe based on its complexity. Imagine having very involved action scenes that need more bits to encapsulate the information versus...

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Optimizing Content Quality Control at Netflix with Predictive Modeling

By Nirmal Govind and Athula BalachandranOver 69 million Netflix members stream billions of hours of movies and shows every month in North and South America, parts of Europe and Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Soon, Netflix will be available in every corner of the world...

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High Quality Video Encoding at Scale

At Netflix we receive high quality sources for our movies and TV shows and encode them to the best video streams possible for a given member’s viewing device and bandwidth capabilities. With the continued growth of our service it has been essential to build a video encoding...

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