Beamr services the biggest MSOs and online video service providers as the industry’s top developer of content-adaptive encoding and video optimization solutions that enable high video quality, high CPU performance, and benchmark bitrate efficiency for MSOs, streaming content distributors, TV networks and video streaming platforms. Backed by forty-four granted patents, Beamr's perceptual optimization technology extends into our HEVC and H.264 video encoders. CABR (Content-Adaptive Bitrate) is a revolutionary rate-control mode that enables guaranteed quality to be delivered at very low bitrates. Founded in 2009, Beamr investors include Verizon Ventures, Eric Schmidt backed Innovation Endeavors, and Disruptive.
The advanced imaging technology Beamr developed for our codecs are covered by 11 granted patents that are a part of the 44 total patents the company holds that cover our class leading video optimization developments. Though video quality and bitrate continues to be a core focus of development, Beamr recognized the prevailing trend to increase compute performance and density of software-based video encoding and transcoding infrastructure as a key to securing a competitive advantage for video distributors, streaming video distributors, and content distribution networks. At the same time, video architects must be prepared for advanced entertainment content, by embracing new technologies, capabilities, and codecs such as HEVC, HDR, and 4K.
Beamr's perceptual quality measure is built on a proprietary, low complexity, highly reliable, perceptually aligned quality metric that is covered by 33 International patents. The existence of this proprietary quality measure enables controlling a video encoder to output a file with the maximum compression possible while maintaining the original video resolution, format and visual quality. beamr hevc encoding This feat occurs by adjusting the compression level of each frame in the video sequence so that it is compressed to the maximum while producing a visual result that is the same as the quality that was originally specified.
Routinely, quality claims are made by vendors and service providers, yet the methodology for verifying them are rarely disclosed. At Beamr, we checked our perceptual quality claim using a well understood International standard that gives Beamr customers the confidence to accept Beamr perceptual optimization technology. If you view a video encoded using the VBR rate-control and a video encoded with the CABR rate-control side-by-side, they will appear identical to the human eye under normal viewing conditions. This fact has been certified by numerous Hollywood golden eyes including those from Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., and NBCUniversal. In addition, Beamr performed a full battery of ITU BT.500 testing which proved the result of CABR to be perceptually identical to the original file or targeted quality. Go to beamr.com to discover how Beamr pioneered this new segment of CAE content-adaptive encoding and optimization, using CABR.
The industry has enjoyed significant advances in software encoding, video codecs, and tools, meanwhile the pace of video growth on the network is expanding faster than the availability of CPUs, causing silicon encoding solutions using GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to come back into focus. Beamr silicon accelerated CABR encoding opens new opportunities with unprecedented TCO for mobile, edge, and cloud applications. The work Beamr is doing on silicon is closing the gap between the high performance of hardware encoders, and the complexity of advanced algorithms like CABR which traditionally were only able to be implemented in software on a CPU.