e-commerce video compression

How a Leading e-Commerce Platform Reduced Video Delivery Costs and Improved Playback Performance with Visionular

For mobile-first commerce platforms, video is one of the biggest drivers of user engagement, but it is also one of the largest contributors to infrastructure cost. As one of India's fastest-growing social commerce platforms, our client delivers millions of short-form product videos to users every day, powering product discovery, seller engagement, and conversion across the platform. As video consumption scaled rapidly, the platform faced a growing challenge: how to deliver more video, faster and at lower cost, without compromising quality. To solve this, they partnered with Visionular to optimize their video encoding and delivery architecture. The result was a meaningful reduction...

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ABS CBN Video Compression

How ABS-CBN’s iWant Scaled Global Streaming Without Increasing Distribution Costs

iWant is a global streaming platform bringing Filipino shows, movies, series, news, and live channels to audiences both in the Philippines and across the world. Launched in 2018 and operated by ABS-CBN Digital Media, a division of ABS-CBN Corporation, the platform reaches viewers on multiple continents through web, mobile, and smart TV apps. The service runs on a freemium model, offering free ad-supported content alongside subscription and pay-per-view options. Its catalog spans exclusive teleseryes, variety shows, films, and iWant Originals, all delivered securely to millions of users worldwide. Much of iWant's audience is in the Asia-Pacific region, where people primarily watch...

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Visionular Launches AI Production Platform AuroraVision at NAB Show 2026

AI-native production platform delivers Tier-1 live production quality without Tier-1 hardware. No additional cameras, no specialist operators, no hardware upgrades required.Visionular announces the commercial launch of AuroraVision, a software-defined AI production platform that gives broadcasters, OTT operators, and live-production teams the visual capabilities previously accessible only to the world’s largest productions – regardless of scale, budget, or infrastructure. AuroraVision’s greater value lies in the flexibility it brings to live production. Smooth slow-motion replay, accurate real-time object tracking, AI-driven video reframing, and 4K/8K output have traditionally required purpose-built cameras, specialised signal-chain infrastructure, and additional crew. AuroraVision makes these capabilities possible through real-time AI...

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How FanCode Delivered 1080p Quality to 160 Million Sports Fans Without Increasing Data Costs

FanCode is India's leading digital sports platform, serving more than 160 million sports enthusiasts with live and on-demand content across Formula 1, cricket, football, golf, MotoGP, and more. Launched in 2019, the platform operates under Dream Sports — the country's largest sports technology company and parent of Dream11. FanCode's audience is mobile-first, spread across urban and rural India, and intensely passionate about sport. That passion, however, coexists with a very practical constraint: data costs. For millions of fans, every gigabyte consumed matters.India's mobile streaming market presents a paradox that keeps engineering teams up at night: audiences demand premium video quality, yet...

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AV1 Decoding and Hardware Ecosystem: The Future of Video Delivery

TL; DR AV1 is now mainstream. The open, royalty-free codec is supported across all major platforms, browsers, and chipsets. Software led the early adoption. Open decoders like dav1d laid the foundation for AV1 playback before hardware became widespread. Hardware has closed the loop. From mobile SoCs to smart TVs and laptops, every major manufacturer now ships AV1-ready devices. Streaming, broadcast, and RTC leaders have adopted. YouTube, Netflix, Meta, and others now deliver most of their traffic in AV1 for cost, efficiency, and quality gains. AV2 is on the horizon. As 5G, 8K, and AI-based video workflows expand, AV1 readiness will...

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FanCode and Visionular Bring Cloud-First AI Video Compression to Sports Streaming

AI-powered cloud platform delivers 40% data reduction and 1080p quality upgrade for 160 million sports fans across India LOS ALTOS, CA, September 1, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- FanCode, India's premier digital sports destination, has partnered with Visionular,  to transform how hundreds of millions of sports fans experience video-on-demand (VOD) content. Nearly 40% reduction in data usage while delivering better picture quality Fans now watch 1080p content using the same bandwidth previously required for 720p AI-powered, standard-aligned encoding optimized specifically for fast-motion sports content Cloud-native platform integrates seamlessly with existing workflows without disruption Longer watch times for viewers on limited data plans across India The...

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ABS-CBN’s iWant Scales Global VOD Streaming with Visionular’s AI-Driven Cloud Video Compression

AuroraCloud’s AI-powered, standards-aligned, cloud-agnostic solution delivers superior compression and cost efficiency for the leading Filipino streaming platform LOS ALTOS, CA, September 11, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Visionular, a leader in AI-driven standards-aligned video compression technology, today announced a successful deployment with iWant, a Filipino over-the-top (OTT) media service. Launched in 2018, it brings Filipino programming to a global audience across multiple continents. The collaboration leverages Visionular's standards-aligned, cloud-agnostic compression, AuroraCloud to optimize video delivery for iWant's worldwide Filipino audience. iWant selected Visionular's AuroraCloud as part of its strategic migration from an on-premises solution to a cloud-based infrastructure. The OTT platform sought a partner that could...

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Short-Drama: The New Content Category Disrupting Global Entertainment

Why platforms creating serialized mobile content need specialized compression technology to compete on quality despite production budget constraintsSections Index The Short-drama Entertainment Revolution Global Market Opportuniity The Production Budget Reality of Short-drama AI-Driven Compression as Production Equalizer Production-Proven Results in Short-drama The First-Mover Advantage in Short-drama Awaiting You Short-drama represents the fastest-growing content category globally, serialized dramatic stories delivered in 1-10 minute episodes designed for mobile consumption. Unlike traditional streaming where users watch 1-2 pieces of content per session, short-drama viewers consume 20-30 episodes in rapid succession, creating unique technical challenges that traditional video infrastructure wasn't designed to handle. This consumption pattern creates...

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Not All Codec Implementations Are Equal

What We’ve Learned from the Edge Table of Contents Why Compression Needs a Second Look  Traditional Compression is Maxed Out AI - A Smarter Way to Compress Video How Our AI-Driven Video Compression Works Why Switch Now? Use Case Snapshots Compression is Strategic   Video is everywhere, and the bar keeps rising. Mobile-first audiences expect instant load times. Smart TVs demand pristine clarity. Nobody tolerates buffering anymore. Every byte you ship to meet that bar costs money. Storage, CDN, encoding - the pipeline is under constant pressure, and it's only getting heavier. Compression has long been treated as a backend afterthought, something engineers tune once...

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Aurora-VQA: Blind Video Quality Assessment That Thinks Like Your Viewers

The Hidden Gap in Video Experience Metrics Your audience doesn’t care about PSNR or SSIM. They care about whether the video looks good and feels right, especially when watching user-generated content, live sports, or social video on the move. But most platforms still evaluate quality using outdated metrics or rely on manual QA teams and viewer complaints. It doesn’t scale. It doesn’t reflect human perception. And it leaves a massive blind spot in your video experience workflow. That’s why we built Aurora VQA, an AI-powered blind video quality assessment system that works without a reference, sees video the way humans do, and empowers...

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