VidTrans20 Annual Conference & Exposition - Los Angeles, California, USA

February 25 - 27, 2020

Photos from VidTrans20, February 2020
Photos from VidTrans20 Conference & Exhibition held in Los Angeles, CA February 25 – 27, 2020

Conference Program & Presentations

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Session 1

  1. NMOS – What is it and why should I care?
    Jed Deame - Nextera Video

  2. Update on new compression standards -- EVC, VVC, AV1
    Matthew Goldman - MediaKind

  3. Proposal for Programmatic Configuration of Media Devices with NETCONF/YANG
    Thomas Edwards - Disney

  4. Bit-Rate Evaluation of Compressed HDR using SL-HDR1
    Ciro Noronha, Ph.D. – Cobalt Digital

Session 2

  1. Panel Discussion: Progress Report: Broadcast Virtualization for On- and Off-Premises Workflows
    Moderator: Andy Rayner- Nevion
    Participants: Claire Southey – AWS, John Mailhot – Imagine Communications, Tomer Schechter – TAG, Michael Bergeron- Panasonic

  2. Live TS over IP Live Lesson Learned
    Adi Rozenberg - VideoFlow

  3. The 2110 Audio Muddle – Managing Mono Audio inside Multi-Channel Streams
    John Mailhot – Imagine Communications

  4. Dynamic Media System Architecture - Creating Truly Dynamic Media Facilities
    Brad Gilmer – Gilmer & Associates

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Session 3

  1. Native IP Decoding MPEG-TS Video to Uncompressed IP (and Vice versa) on COTS Hardware
    Kieran Kunhya – Open Broadcast Systems

  2. Media Platform Automation
    Steven Soenens – Skyline Communications

  3. IP Production - Matters of Space and Time
    Andy Rayner – Nevion

  4. High Throughput JPEG 2000 for Entertainment Imaging
    Mike Smith – Wavelet Consulting LLC

  5. Unlocking the Value of Media Over IP: Networked PTP Time Delivery
    Richard Hoptroff - Hoptroff London Ltd

Session 4

  1. Panel Discussion: ST2110 Becomes Mainstream: Successes and Ongoing Challenges
    Moderator: Andy Rayner- Nevion
    Participants: John Mailhot – Imagine Communications, Karl Paulson – Diversified, Robert Welch - Arista

  2. Texas AM University IP Production Case Study
    Zack Bacon – TAMU & Anup Mehta - Cisco

  3. Carrying Media Essence Long Distance - ST2110 over WAN – Activity Group update
    Andy Rayner – Nevion

  4. Using Free Desktop Tools to Work with SMPTE 2110
    Emir Onat - Fox

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Session 5

  1. Machine Learning Driven Variable Frame-Rate for Production and Broadcast Applications
    Benoît Le Ludec – b-com

  2. Panel Discussion: Reliable Internet Stream Transport "RIST"
    Moderator: Rick Ackermans - MVA Broadcast Consulting
    Participants: Sergio Ammirata – DVEO, Paul Atwell - Media Transport Solutions, Ciro Noronha - Cobalt Digital & Adi Rozenberg – VideoFlow

  3. SMPTE 2110 Diagnostic and Monitoring in Real-time Encoding Systems
    Jovo Miskin – Synamedia

  4. XR - P2MP Coherent Optical Subcarrier Aggregation Technology
    Antti Kankkunen - Infinera

  5. JPEG-XS Activity Group Update
    John Dale – Media Links

  6. Testing Sessions Updates
    Jack Douglass – PacketStorm

  7. IPMX: A profile for Pro AV
    Andrew Starks – Macnica


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