TVV EP 17 - Growing an OTT service via user-sourced subtitles
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In this episode, we are joined by Omkiran (Omki) Sharma, Head of Video Engineering at Rakuten Viki.  Omki discusses Viki's origin story and how their user-sourced subtitles led to explosive growth in the early years of their service.  He also discusses their video "diff" process to share subtitles between multiple pieces of content that are slightly different from one market to another.  Omki also highlights the challenges and opportunities that Viki faced heading into and during the pandemic. Watch the full video version. Learn more about Visionular and get more information on AV1.
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