Bitmovin

Bitmovin was founded in 2013 after research and standardization in the area of MPEG-DASH at the University of Klagenfurt.^[1] In 2014 the company secured an investment round with the venture capital fond Speedinvest and Constantia Industries.^{[citation needed]} In 2014, the company was part of the top 100 companies in online media.^[2][3] Bitmovin is the author of the MPEG-DASH reference software libdash^[4][5] and contributes to the standardization at MPEG,^{[citation needed]} DASH-IF,^[6] IETF,^{[citation needed]} etc.

In 2015, Bitmovin participated in the YCombinator program.^[7]

The company provides the cloud-based transcoding service bitcodin,^[8] which increases the efficiency of transcoding by using Cloud computing,^[9] and also enables transcoding of ultra-high definition video.^{[citation needed]}

The company also created the HTML media and Flash-based web player bitdash^[10][11] which can be used in Web Browsers on desktop computers and smartphones. This player supports the streaming and playback of MPEG-DASH or Apple's HTTP Live Streaming, using either the Media Source Extensions or Flash, depending on the platform.^{[citation needed]} DRM is enabled through the usage of the Encrypted Media Extensions as well as Flash.^{[citation needed]} It is compatible to tools such as x264 or MP4Box.^[12]

• Live or on-demand transcoding of video or audio streaming to HLS, progressive and DASH
• Web-based players for streaming for HLS, progressive and DASH content in HTML video or Flash Video
• Streaming of DRM protected content in HTML video