[tnorthcutt]

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?

[adamors]

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

[jayzalowitz]

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

[GarrettBeck]

+1

[ritikm]

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.

[silverbax88]

How is this different than adaptive streaming?

[manishsharan]

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

[hack_edu]

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