5G video services are better with @BeamrVideo CABR. #5G #videostreaming #livevideostreaming #HEVC #mobilevideo pic.twitter.com/mzWuPzjLpl
— BEAMR (@BeamrVideo) June 28, 2019
Beamr services the biggest Pay TV and streaming video distributors as the leading developer of CAE (content-adaptive encoding) and video optimization solutions that enable superior video quality, high CPU performance, and benchmark bitrate efficiency for managed services, OTT content distributors, Pay TV and OVPs. Backed by 44 granted patents, Beamr's perceptual optimization technology works natively inside our HEVC and H.264 software video encoders. CABR (Content-Adaptive Bitrate) is a revolutionary rate-control mode that enables guaranteed quality to be delivered at very low bitrates. Founded in 2009, Beamr investors include Verizon Ventures, Eric Schmidt backed Innovation Endeavors, and Disruptive.
Beamr solutions provide up to a 35% network reclamation by reducing the file and stream sizes of video traffic using Beamr’s class-leading HEVC and H.264 Beamr 4x and Beamr 5x software video encoders. Beamr provides the highest video quality at the lowest bitrate for telcos and TV networks and MSOs seeking to reduce video bandwidth utilization on the network backbone and last mile.
The Beamr perceptual quality measure is based on a proprietary, low complexity, highly reliable, perceptually aligned quality metric that is covered by thirty-three granted patents. The existence of this special quality measure enables controlling a video encoder to output a stream with the maximum compression possible while maintaining the original video resolution, format and visual quality. CABR does this by controlling the compression level of each frame in the video sequence so that it is compressed to the maximum while producing a perceptually identical result.
The Beamr quality measure has been in development since 2009. After extensive refinement, and subjecting it to the strict requirements and testing of ITU BT.500 which is an International standard for validating image quality, we were able to confirm that there is a sufficiently high correlation of our quality measure with subjective results. The Beamr quality measure takes into account temporal artifacts. Since it is not sufficient to ensure only at the frame level that degradation has not been introduced - it is also necessary to preserve the quality of the video's temporal flow. If you view a video encoded using the VBR rate-control and a video encoded with the CABR rate-control side-by-side, they will appear identical to the human eye under normal viewing conditions. This is a secret to how the process is able to guarantee image quality.
The industry has enjoyed significant advances in software encoding, video codecs, and tools, yet the pace of video growth on the network is expanding faster than the availability of CPUs, causing silicon encoding solutions using GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to come back into focus. Beamr silicon accelerated CABR encoding opens new opportunities with very low TCO for mobile, edge, and cloud applications. The work Beamr is doing on silicon is closing the gap between the high performance of hardware encoders, and the complexity of advanced algorithms like CABR which traditionally were only beamr able to be implemented in software on a CPU.