Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)

Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by tnorthcutt on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:17PM (#7900570)

And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally.

How is this technically possible?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by adamors on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:38PM (#7900687)

They've developed a new compression algorithm with a Weissman score of 5.2.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by jayzalowitz on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:51PM (#7900756)

So the purchase price was above 10m? They turned that down when salesforce offered..

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by GarrettBeck on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:11PM (#7902368)

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by ritikm on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:43PM (#7900717)

We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by silverbax88 on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:37PM (#7901351)

How is this different than adaptive streaming?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by manishsharan on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:09PM (#7900868)

If you are using FFMPEG for this, would you care to share your hack ?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by hack_edu on Monday June 16, 2014 @05:26PM (#7901563)

One hopes Box didn't acquire a company with only a beta-invite product for simply their ffmpeg one-liners...

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