Video engineering, taught from the command line up.
Three courses in production now — FFmpeg, Wowza Streaming Engine and OvenMediaEngine. Taught by Robert Reinhardt, Streaming Media Magazine All-Star, who has run these workshops at Streaming Media East and West since 2015.
Not theory: the exact commands, the sample media, and side-by-side encode comparisons from work VideoRx does every week.
No spam. One email when a course opens, and nothing else.
What's coming
FFmpeg — all skill levels
Rate control, filters, multiple outputs and delivery — from your first encode through filter graphs, ABR ladders and live HLS. Built from ten years of conference workshops, with the exact commands and sample media rather than screenshots of them.
- CRF vs. bitrate, presets and keyframes
- Crop, pad, overlay and drawtext
- Multi-rendition ladders that switch cleanly
- Capture and live output
Wowza Streaming Engine
Standing up and running Wowza Streaming Engine in production: application setup, transcoding, security, and the workflows that survive a live event rather than a demo.
- Install, licensing and application config
- Transcoder and stream targets
- Recording, playback and access control
- Scaling and troubleshooting
OvenMediaEngine
The open-source media server VideoRx runs for its own live events — including the Creve Coeur Figure Skating Club broadcasts. Sub-second WebRTC and LLHLS without a per-stream licence.
- Ingest: RTMP, SRT and WebRTC
- Sub-second WebRTC playback
- LLHLS and recording
- Running it on your own infrastructure
Your instructor
Robert Reinhardt
Founder, VideoRx
- Streaming Media Magazine All-Star
- Contributing Editor — StreamingMedia.com and magazine
Robert has spent two decades building and troubleshooting video pipelines, and has taught FFmpeg at Streaming Media East and West most years since 2015. These courses are that workshop material, rebuilt to work on your own machine.
Day to day
- Video Solutions Architect
- Reviews business requirements and recommends the video stack to match, coordinating Android/iOS/cloud delivery.
- Encoding Specialist
- Reviews, analyses and updates encoding specifications and output for VOD and live streams.
- Media Server Developer
- Builds custom server functionality for Wowza Streaming Engine, FFmpeg, and AWS/Azure workflows.
- Technical Director
- Provides onsite video production for live event streams.
SAMS-registered; conducts work for federal agencies including HHS/NIH.
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