September 2015

Better late than never! Lots of big stories this month.

Codecs, compression, containers
• StreamingMedia survey: 10% of responders plan to support VP9 by 2020 (vs 1% today)
• HEVC Advance reconsidering pricing strategy

Industry
• BBC to open up iPlayer to other broadcasters
•  'Any half-remembered bit of TV or radio findable in 30 seconds or less'
• Facebook 360 video
• Beta HTML5 BBC iPlayer for desktop (using dash.js)
• video.js 5.0: major update
• FOMS 2015 and Demuxed 2015 in SF
• chromiumdev-slack.herokuapp.com: chromiumdev on Slack #media

WebRTC, realtime, communication
• Kranky Geek SF: 14 excellent sessions
• Delay Agnostic AEC turned on for all Chrome users
• WhatsApp Hits 900M Monthly Users, Edges Closer To An Actual Business Model
• First ever call between Chrome, Firefox and Edge

Hardware
• Video of hummingbird in 240fps slomo on Nexus 6P

Web Audio
• Cat purr synthesiser (you may or may not also want to sample the bagpipes)

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• Exploring the Crossorigin Media Attribute in HTML5 (from HTML5 Weekly)
• chrome://media-internals: debug media playback