{"id":167595,"date":"2016-06-07T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=167595"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T07:06:24","slug":"netflix-develops-video-quality-measuring-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/167595-netflix-develops-video-quality-measuring-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix develops video quality measuring tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has developed a tool that measures video quality by gauging\u00a0visual information fidelity, detail loss, and the effect of motion.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/06\/netflix-real-world-video-quality-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, the tool gives a &#8220;real life&#8221; result that is more than the technical details of a video stream.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow viewers to see which videos will be more appealing to the eye, regardless of whether they are animated or live-action.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has released the tool on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Netflix\/vmaf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GitHub<\/strong><\/a> as open source code for other companies to use.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Netflix<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166500-huge-billboard-outside-netflix-hq-protesting-vpn-block.html\">Huge billboard outside Netflix HQ protesting VPN block<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/164290-how-netflix-helped-showmax-in-south-africa.html\">How Netflix helped ShowMax in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has developed a tool that measures video quality by gauging visual information fidelity, detail loss, and the effect of motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,2054],"class_list":["post-167595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167599,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167595\/revisions\/167599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}