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Peter Lisák

Head of Media Engineering

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The Showmax Engineering story, Part I.

Here’s a rundown of the main terms we use at Showmax Engineering

Showmax delivers a top-shelf VOD service across the African continent. On top of Hollywood hits, TV series, and local telenovelas, we offer news, music and live sports. Here on the Showmax tech blog, we write about the many challenges that we encounter... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on encoding, vocabulary, video 19 November 2020

Pushing video bitrate to the limit

When you subscribe to a VOD service, you expect the best visual quality possible. For our customers across Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s no different. But, in a region with developing infrastructure and expensive data, OTT services like ours face an inevitable... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on encoding, ffmpeg, bandwidth saving 17 June 2020

Divide & Encode: How to Encode Videos Blazingly Fast

Part II - Under The Hood

This is the second (and final) part of our blog mini-series about boosting encoding speed. In the first part we wrote about how we managed to maximize the power of our encoding farm via parallelization of the encoding pipeline. Here, we will give you... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on python, ffmpeg, scalability, encoding 06 March 2019

Divide & Encode: How to Encode Videos Blazingly Fast

Part I - Need For Speed

Here at Showmax, we’re addicted to speed and performance. In this post, I’ll go through a few techniques we used to improve the speed of our encoding pipeline, maximize the computing power of our encoders, and shortening our encoding time. When it... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on python, ffmpeg, scalability, encoding 10 January 2019

How Showmax got into live streaming

Part II - Sometimes the only way is the way of The Force

In the first part of this series, we explained how Showmax got into the live streaming business and the problems we faced while developing our redundant setup. Now, the fun stuff - here’s a little dive into why our live encoding checker was sometimes... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on ffmpeg, live, usp 06 March 2018

How Showmax got into live streaming

Part I - Adventures in achieving streaming redundancy

This is the first in a series of articles about how Showmax made a radical departure from its video-on-demand roots and took a live streaming platform from scratch to production in less than three months. In particular, we’ll share some of the key... »

Peter Lisák Peter Lisák on ffmpeg, live, usp, hls 21 February 2018
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