The VideoVerse
Episodes
From Network Variability to Playback Intelligence: Airtel’s Sudeep Kumar on Streaming in India
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Overview In this episode of the VideoVerse Podcast, we’re joined by Sudeep Kumar, Product Lead at Airtel Digital, one of India’s lar...
From Hype to Impact: What NAB 2025 Taught Us About AI in Video
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this kickoff episode of the revived Visionular Podcast, David Lea is joined by Zoe Liu and Krishna Rao to reflect on their experience at NAB 2025. ...
TVV EP 28 - Romain Bouqueau: Championing Open-Source in the Streaming Industry
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Romain Bouqueau, CEO and Founder of Motion Spell gives us a deep look into the contributions of the open-source community in the worl...
TVV EP 27 - Flavio Ribeiro: The Past, Present & Future of Video Streaming
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in to hear Flavio Ribeiro, Sr. Engineering Manager of Netflix’s Live Streaming Technologies, discuss all things video streaming. Starting in th...
TVV EP 26 - Debargha Mukherjee: A Peek Into The AV2 Future
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back for a second time on TheVideoVerse, Debargha Mukherjee, Principal Engineer at Google, discusses the upcoming AV2 project, touted as the successor...
TVV EP 25 - Jill Boyce: Video Codec Pioneer
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Boyce, Distinguished Scientist at Nokia, is one of the most significant and long-standing contributors to MPEG compression standards. In this epi...
TVV EP 24 - Justin Ridge: Bringing Codec Standards to The World
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Justin Ridge, President of the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF). A veteran of video coding standards, he shares his per...
TVV EP 23 - Adventures with AV1 for RTC with Eric Sun
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eric Sun gives a deep dive into Meta's recent experiences with deploying AV1 for real-time communications across Meta's app...
TVV EP 22 - Playback experience in YouTube by Chas Mastin
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chas Mastin shared his insights about how YouTube ensures premium playback experience for its users. As one of the largest streaming ...
TVV EP 21 - Live Captions In All Languages is Hard! Wait, is it really?
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Live Captions are Hard! Wait, are they? Browse on over to the latest episode of The Video Verse where we discuss accessibility via Live Captions a...
TVV EP 20 - Demystifying VMAF with Zhi Li
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The VMAF video quality metric is ubiquitous in the streaming world, and any discussion of video codec performance is seldom complete without poring ov...
TVV EP 19 - Exploring Versatile Video Coding
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Benjamin Bross and Adam Wiekowski, who head the Video Coding Systems Group at the prestigious Fraunhofer HHI research...
TVV EP 18 - The challenges and opportunities of building a hyper-local OTT service in India
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are pleased to host Shashank Vaishnav, CTO and co-founder of Stage.in. In this episode we discuss Shashank's unique entrepreneurial journey, a...
TVV EP 17 - Growing an OTT service via user-sourced subtitles
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Omkiran (Omki) Sharma, Head of Video Engineering at Rakuten Viki. Omki discusses Viki's origin story and how ...
TVV EP 16 - Optimizing User-Generated Content for the world
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this fascinating episode, we are joined by Balu Adsumilli, Head of Media Algorithms at YouTube. In a wide-ranging discussion, he reveals how YouTub...
TVV EP 15 - Sustainability of M&E in the cloud
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're joined by Thomas Edwards, Principal Architect of Media and Entertainment at AWS. Here Thomas presents the current situatio...
TVV Ep 14 - Codec for AI, Codec of AI, Codec with AI
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Maggie Zhu and her student Zhihao Duan describe the state of the art in AI codecs and their diverse applications. AI compre...
TVV Ep 13 - Scaling sports video, and statistical data in the cloud.
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Video Verse, Casey Bateman shares his insights on the challenges of migrating from H264 to HEVC and optimizing live streaming e...
TVV Ep 12 - The evolution of web video elements with Steve Heffernan, creator of Video. JS and co-founder of Mux/Zencoder.
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our podcast! Today we have Steve Heffernan, Creator of JS and Co-Founder of Mux joining us. We'll be talking about the challenges that...
TVV Ep 11 - Without challenges, we don't have anything to do.
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Video Verse, CP (CTO of Mola) joins us to discuss how technology is impacting user engagement on platforms. From understanding ...
TVV EP 10 - Tactics to implement ML in video compression and the story behind AWS Elemental's QVBR
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Video Verse podcast, the show where we discuss everything related to video. On this episode we'll be talking about AI and machine ...
TVV EP 09 - Hybrid Video Conferencing Directions
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the Video Verse, we have Thomas Davies, tech lead for Visionular. He will be discussing the hybrid world of video conferencing: where it star...
TVV EP 08 - Delivering 8K 50 Hz video to today's limited networks and devices.
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode of the video verse, we have Jan De Cock, Director of Coding Development at Synamedia, joining us to discuss the new encoder HE...
TVV EP 07 - Using AI and ML to scale automated video creation with Wu-Hsi Li of Firework
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On average a 30-second video costs around $2,000 to produce. Trying to create thousands of videos at that rate can get quite costly. Wu0Hsi of Firewor...
TVV EP 06 - Behnam Kakavand - Low latency and ultra-low latency streaming
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What variables do you need to be aware of when deciding the level of latency you need for your stream? Low and ultra-low latency is a hot topic in spo...
TVV EP 05 - Jean-Baptiste Kempf - The VideoLAN origin story
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most people have heard of VLC, but not everyone knows about VideoLAN, the parent company behind it. Founder Jean-Baptiste Kemp shares humble beginn...
TVV EP 04 - Thomas Davies - AV1 for WebRTC
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Davies is a Principal Codec Engineer at Visionular working on all aspects of video codec development and optimization with a special focus on R...
TVV EP 03 - Thomas Daede Pt 2 - AV1 deployment and testing - Is using VMAF still a good idea?
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our sitdown with Vimeo's principal codec engineer Thomas Daede, he shares how AV1 is making 10-bit HDR the new standard for all onli...
TVV EP 02 - Thomas Daede Pt 1 - AV1 has its roots in RC planes???
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you've been around the video codec world at all, then Thomas Daede is a familiar name. From his early days in trying to find a way to stream d...
TVV EP 01 - Debargha Mukherjee of Google - The history of AV1 + 3 tools you may not know about
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special interview with Debargha Mukherjee, Principal Engineer at Google, you will gain critical insights into the development of AV1, includin...