Technical Papers

Elemental White Papers

White Paper | Optimizing Video Processing Infrastructure with the Cloud

Just as adaptive streaming technologies offer more efficient ways to deliver over-the-top television (OTT) and TV Everywhere experiences, the cloud offers the ability to expand traditional video operations with elastic resources and shift capital investments to operational expenses that are based on actual usage. Learn how implementing a hybrid approach that puts cloud-based video processing within reach for media companies, particularly those with high volumes of premium live and on demand video content.

White Paper | HEVC Demystified: A Primer on the H.265 Video Codec

The most recent non-proprietary video compression standard, High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), also known as H.265, is expected to become the video standard of choice for the next decade. As with each generation of video compression technology before it, HEVC promises to reduce the overall cost of delivering and storing video assets while maintaining or increasing the quality of experience for the viewer.

White Paper | CDNs Demystified: A Streaming Technology Primer

Learn about the fundamental capabilities and practices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) as they relate to video processing functions, such as those provided by Elemental. This white paper describes how a CDN operates and details the interactions that take place between the software, hardware and networks components that comprise a CDN video delivery system.

White Paper | Best Workflows 2011 Q1: Encoding & Transcoding Solutions

In extensive benchmark testing conducted by an independent video compression expert, Elemental solutions excelled in speed, throughput and quality. Get the summary of the 2011 Q1 Best Workflows report for a detailed look at the testing methodogy and analysis used to arrive at these conclusions.

White Paper | Elemental Live: Enabling the Real-time Revolution in Video Streaming

Consumer demand for live content increases daily, so how do you meet and exceed that demand? This white paper explores how live streaming is quickly becoming the most lucrative form of online video and looks at the breakthrough solution from Elemental that gives content providers a competitive edge.

White Paper | Delivering High-Quality Online Video

Content creators are seeking affordable encoding solutions that maintain and even enhance video quality, while creating video more quickly. This white paper provides an in-depth look at the state of large-scale video compression and offers proof points as to how Elemental solutions keep you ahead of the curve in delivering high-quality video to your customers and end users.

Partner White Papers

White Paper | Breaking the CPU Barrier in Media Transcoding Performance

EMC Isilon and Elemental provide best-in-class, massively scalable solutions for IPTV transcoding and on-demand content delivery for broadcast media workflows. The world’s top on-demand service providers rely on EMC Isilon scale out NAS and Elemental Server GPU-based video transcoding solutions to simplify and accelerate their workflows.