Category: SMOOTH Streaming

Make your audience happy !

Some insights on Video Streaming If you think that load testing your videos streaming platform is a luxury you can do without, here are some numbers to convince you that you should absolutely do it: Live video is more appealing to brand audiences: 80% would rather watch live video from a brand than read a […]

Live graphs with Grafana and InfluxDB

Ensuring the performance of your video streaming infrastructure If you deliver Over The Top (OTT) media services, you need to ensure that the performances of your video streaming is good and that your end users are not facing Lag or buffering when using your platform. Delivering  such services with good performances is not a simple […]

UbikLoadPack Video Streaming Plugin 6.1.0 for Apache JMeter

Video Streaming Plugin 6.1.0 for JMeter released Automatic handling of Audio Stream Now the plugin automatically handles the playing simulation of the Audio playlist besides the Video playlist for the 3 formats HLS, Mpeg-Dash and HSS. In case of Live Streaming simulation, it will automatically detect it and also update the corresponding manifest for HLS […]

Customers now watch online video every day, everywhere and on every device. Mobile and tablet internet usage exceeded desktop for first time worldwide in October 2016. By 2017, online video accounts for 74% of all online traffic. The question about video streaming is now: How will I deliver good quality video for everyone in every […]

Load testing Live Video Streaming and Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with JMeter and UbikLoadPack Video streaming is an important part of customers experience on the internet. 100M internet users watch online video every day and 45% of internet users view at least one online video over the course of a month. However 62% of people is […]

Load Testing Smooth Streaming Video with JMeter The format Microsoft Smooth Streaming is an adaptive video streaming format created by Microsoft and used to stream content through HTTP requests. This streaming format was first used during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Like other adaptive HTTP streaming technologies (Apple HLS, MPEG-DASH, Adobe HDS …), it allows […]