Highlights: LiveVideoStackCon Shanghai 2019

Last month, the author attended LiveVideoStackCon 2019 in Shanghai to give a keynote session on designing a great video API. The event focused on new innovations and teaching video streaming architecture. Key highlights from the talks included machine learning applications, codec wars, commercial encoders for AV1, and discussions of alternate TCP stacks. China is becoming a leader in machine learning with numerous applications being demonstrated. Chinese companies are still pushing ahead with their own video codecs like AVS2, while commercial encoders for AV1 are starting to appear. Alternate TCP stacks are becoming common as companies experiment with improved throughput and reduced latency.