As we close out 2025, we find ourselves in the peculiar position of having to confess something: we’ve been having far too much fun with AI coding assistants. Not in a “let’s replace our engineering team” sort of way (our engineers would have my head), but in a “let’s see what happens when we connect […]
Layercake, the company behind the intelligent media workflow platform Streamcake, today announced the integration of Norsk into its ecosystem. This collaboration brings Norsk‘s advanced video processing capabilities directly into Streamcake’s orchestration layer, enabling customers to build, deploy and manage sophisticated media workflows with enhanced control, flexibility and scalability. The integration allows organisations to unify live
Every live streaming workflow relies on synchronization, ensuring that multiple streams of media (audio, video, subtitles, and metadata) are aligned in time. In Norsk, synchronization points aren’t just abstract concepts; they’re real nodes in the workflow that you can inspect visually and measure quantitatively. The Norsk visualizer makes this visible. Each box represents a stage
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In a perfect world, time would only move forward monotonically — that is, consistently forward, second after second, minute after minute. But in live video streaming, this isn’t always the case. A “discontinuity” is an event where the flow of timestamps in a media stream does something unexpected — it either jumps forward by a
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Given the chaotic nature of incoming video streams, a live streaming system like Norsk must create order to deliver properly synchronized outputs. Norsk relies on a deliberate and robust strategy for mastering time from the point of ingestion, so that you can be confident your live streams are in sync. [For an in-depth look at
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Norsk Studio offers a flexible method for overriding configuration settings without modifying your base YAML files. This guide explains how to perform overrides, using SRT ports and encode ladder settings as examples. How Overrides Work Overrides in Norsk Studio selectively replace values in your base settings with those from an override file. When you run
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One of the most potentially disruptive developments in streaming and broadcast space is the CMSD (Common Media Server Data) specification, which combined with MQA (Media Quality Analysis) enables smarter quality monitoring for live streaming. This standard addresses a fundamental inefficiency in how the industry monitors streaming quality today. The Problem with Traditional Monitoring Large-scale live
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Your viewers expect to control when and how they watch—pausing live broadcasts, jumping to key moments, and watching multiple angles simultaneously. Behind the scenes, delivering these experiences has traditionally required complex infrastructure, duplicate storage, and format-specific integrations that slow down production workflows. TAMS (Time Addressable Media Store) makes it simple: one ingest, one storage system,
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In the early days of video streaming, viewers with poor connectivity or older devices often faced a frustrating choice: either watch low-quality video that played smoothly, or high-quality video that constantly buffered and stuttered. Adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, which enables a video player to adjust resolution, bitrate, and other playback parameters in real-time based on
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Video streaming relies on various network protocols to transport content across devices. Among these, RTMP and SRT have emerged as two prominent solutions for video ingest, the process of sending media from a source (such as a live event or TV studio) to a streaming service or network. This article looks at RTMP vs. SRT
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