By Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, PhD — Spin Player is a software media player based on highly optimized HEVC and VVC decoders and an advanced video rendering engine. The media player allows the playback of 8K video using compact and …

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By Sergio Sanz-Rodríguez, PhD — Quality has no Substitute. This is the slogan of the EU-funded Immersify project aiming at developing cutting-edge tools for next-generation of immersive media. Because Spin Digital cares about the final quality of video, …

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By Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, PhD— Spin Digital HEVC Encoder (Spin Enc) introduced support for 8K broadcast format (ARIB STD-B32 version 3.9) in its latest version (v1.8).

By Sergio Sanz-Rodriguez, PhD — Virtual Reality (VR)/360° video is one of the hottest topics in the multimedia industry and film production. The real world is captured by an omnidirectional camera consisting of a set of cameras covering different …

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The purpose of the guidelines presented in this blog is to help Virtual Reality (VR) and 360° content providers to prepare master files with the highest possible quality for submission to film festivals, film markets, online Video-on-Demand (VoD) platforms, or archiving systems. Master files produced according to these guidelines will enable service providers to generate compressed versions for high quality screenings to target viewers.