Christian Timmerer
@timmerer.com
Researcher, entrepreneur & teacher on immersive multimedia communication, streaming, adaptation, & QoE. CIO & Co-Founder at Bitmovin (YC S15). Professor at AAU/ITEC. http://timmerer.com
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Christian Timmerer
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· Nov 15
I've set up a starter pack on Video Tech. Please share and let me know if you're interested in joining. Thanks! go.bsky.app/KMv5Lid
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 4-8 May 2026, Barcelona, Spain
Here we come... team ATHENA and international collaborators!
Here we come... team ATHENA and international collaborators!
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 4-8 May 2026, Barcelona, Spain
Here we come... team ATHENA and international collaborators!
Here we come... team ATHENA and international collaborators!
Congrats, Mohammad and Yuan (who was a guest researcher at ATHENA for 1 year) for getting "Adaptive Compressed Domain Video Encryption" accepted for publication in Expert Systems With Applications. Read more here athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/6342/
Adaptive Compressed Domain Video Encryption | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory
athena.itec.aau.at
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Congrats, Mohammad and Yuan (who was a guest researcher at ATHENA for 1 year) for getting "Adaptive Compressed Domain Video Encryption" accepted for publication in Expert Systems With Applications. Read more here athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/6342/
VQEG Column: Finalization of Recommendation Series P.1204, a Multi-Model Video Quality Evaluation Standard – The New Standards P.1204.1 and P.1204.2 records.sigmm.org/2025/12/17/v...
VQEG Column: Finalization of Recommendation Series P.1204, a Multi-Model Video Quality Evaluation Standard – The New Standards P.1204.1 and P.1204.2 – ACM SIGMM Records
records.sigmm.org
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
VQEG Column: Finalization of Recommendation Series P.1204, a Multi-Model Video Quality Evaluation Standard – The New Standards P.1204.1 and P.1204.2 records.sigmm.org/2025/12/17/v...
Congrats Reza! Well done 🎉🍾🎊🎈
Das ist Reza Farahani, der 2019 als PhD-Kandidat ans #ATHENA Labor kam. Mittlerweile ist er Post-Doc-Forscher am Institut für Informationstechnologie und leitet ab April sein erstes #FFG Projekt. Sein Ziel: Mit Drohnen und intelligentem Edge Computing Brücken inspizieren.
www.aau.at/blog/mit-dro...
www.aau.at/blog/mit-dro...
January 27, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Congrats Reza! Well done 🎉🍾🎊🎈
Full meeting room at the Sustainability Forum at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social with a heterogeneous set of topics, all in the context of sustainability. Nice!
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Full meeting room at the Sustainability Forum at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social with a heterogeneous set of topics, all in the context of sustainability. Nice!
Today, we will present "Sustainability in Video Encoding and Streaming" at the Sustainability Forum at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social based on ATHENA and GAIA projects: athena.itec.aau.at
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Today, we will present "Sustainability in Video Encoding and Streaming" at the Sustainability Forum at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social based on ATHENA and GAIA projects: athena.itec.aau.at
Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’ gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-o...
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.
gizmodo.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’ gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-o...
Reposted by Christian Timmerer
SVT-AV1 4.0.0 is here!
Changelog: gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec...
SVT-AV1-PSY's porting efforts are fully complete, and this release also features huge AVIF improvements. Maybe the most exciting release to date by my standards – SVT-AV1 is finally a real perceptual encoder!
#av1 #avif #compression
Changelog: gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec...
SVT-AV1-PSY's porting efforts are fully complete, and this release also features huge AVIF improvements. Maybe the most exciting release to date by my standards – SVT-AV1 is finally a real perceptual encoder!
#av1 #avif #compression
v4.0.0 · Alliance for Open Media / SVT-AV1 · GitLab
[4.0.0] - 2026-1-23 API updates Major release with...
gitlab.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM
SVT-AV1 4.0.0 is here!
Changelog: gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec...
SVT-AV1-PSY's porting efforts are fully complete, and this release also features huge AVIF improvements. Maybe the most exciting release to date by my standards – SVT-AV1 is finally a real perceptual encoder!
#av1 #avif #compression
Changelog: gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec...
SVT-AV1-PSY's porting efforts are fully complete, and this release also features huge AVIF improvements. Maybe the most exciting release to date by my standards – SVT-AV1 is finally a real perceptual encoder!
#av1 #avif #compression
Players Compatible With the MOQ Streaming Protocol: Pros and Cons www.linkedin.com/pulse/player...
▶️ Players Compatible With the MOQ Streaming Protocol: Pros and Cons
MOQ is moving fast, but one question keeps coming up from developers and product teams: what can you actually use today to play MOQ streams in a browser? We pulled together a quick comparison table of...
www.linkedin.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Players Compatible With the MOQ Streaming Protocol: Pros and Cons www.linkedin.com/pulse/player...
MPEG Roadmap hot off the press from the 153rd MPEG meeting. www.mpeg.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
MPEG Roadmap hot off the press from the 153rd MPEG meeting. www.mpeg.org
Ice skating ⛸️ on Lendkanal in Klagenfurt, Austria 🇦🇹
January 23, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Ice skating ⛸️ on Lendkanal in Klagenfurt, Austria 🇦🇹
ACM SIGMM Records Volume 17, Issue 4, Oct 2025 (ISSN 1947-4598) records.sigmm.org/records-issu...
ACM SIGMM Records, Issue 4, 2025 – ACM SIGMM Records
records.sigmm.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
ACM SIGMM Records Volume 17, Issue 4, Oct 2025 (ISSN 1947-4598) records.sigmm.org/records-issu...
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference is ranked A on the CORE conference ranking system. Congratulations! portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2...
portal.core.edu.au
January 21, 2026 at 4:46 PM
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference is ranked A on the CORE conference ranking system. Congratulations! portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2...
Sub-Second Streaming at Scale: How Player Web X Enables MoQ Playback bitmovin.com/blog/sub-sec...
How Player Web X enables MoQ playback at sub-second scale
Discover how Bitmovin’s Player Web X uses Media over QUIC to deliver sub-second latency, resilient live playback and low latency streaming in modern browsers.
bitmovin.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Sub-Second Streaming at Scale: How Player Web X Enables MoQ Playback bitmovin.com/blog/sub-sec...
MOQT Streaming Format
www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
MOQT Streaming Format
This document specifies the MOQT Streaming Format, designed to operate on Media Over QUIC Transport.
www.ietf.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 AM
MOQT Streaming Format
www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
'Godfather of AI' says CS degrees 'will remain valuable for quite a long time' — and students should still learn to code www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai...
'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says computer science degrees 'will remain valuable' — and students should learn to code
AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said students who want to become AI researchers need to focus on critical thinking.
www.businessinsider.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM
'Godfather of AI' says CS degrees 'will remain valuable for quite a long time' — and students should still learn to code www.businessinsider.com/godfather-ai...
Congratulations to Farzad Tashtarian, who defended his habilitation on “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (14.11.2025). athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/comp...
Farzad Tashtarian completed his habilitation on Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory
athena.itec.aau.at
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Congratulations to Farzad Tashtarian, who defended his habilitation on “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria (14.11.2025). athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/comp...
Media over QUIC Transport (draft 16) is available at www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
Media over QUIC Transport
This document defines the core behavior for Media over QUIC Transport
(MOQT), a media transport protocol designed to operate over QUIC and
WebTransport, which have similar functionality. MOQT allows a...
www.ietf.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Media over QUIC Transport (draft 16) is available at www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
Congratulations to Dr. Daniele Lorenzi for successfully defending his dissertation on “QoE- and Energy-aware Content Consumption for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” at Universität Klagenfurt in the context of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA (July 31, 2025;). athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/qoe-...
QoE- and Energy-aware Content Consumption for HTTP Adaptive Streaming | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory
athena.itec.aau.at
January 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Daniele Lorenzi for successfully defending his dissertation on “QoE- and Energy-aware Content Consumption for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” at Universität Klagenfurt in the context of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA (July 31, 2025;). athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/qoe-...
HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition (draft-19) has been published, adding support for AES-256-GCM segment encryption, among others. www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
www.ietf.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:28 AM
HTTP Live Streaming 2nd Edition (draft-19) has been published, adding support for AES-256-GCM segment encryption, among others. www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...
VCIP 2025 in Klagenfurt brought global experts together to discuss sustainable and trustworthy visual communication in the age of AI.
From keynotes to cutting-edge research, here are the highlights 👇
athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/visu...
#VCIP2025 #AI #VisualComputing #Research
From keynotes to cutting-edge research, here are the highlights 👇
athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/visu...
#VCIP2025 #AI #VisualComputing #Research
Visual Communication in the Age of AI: VCIP 2025 Highlights from Klagenfurt | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory
athena.itec.aau.at
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
VCIP 2025 in Klagenfurt brought global experts together to discuss sustainable and trustworthy visual communication in the age of AI.
From keynotes to cutting-edge research, here are the highlights 👇
athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/visu...
#VCIP2025 #AI #VisualComputing #Research
From keynotes to cutting-edge research, here are the highlights 👇
athena.itec.aau.at/2026/01/visu...
#VCIP2025 #AI #VisualComputing #Research
Reposted by Christian Timmerer
Bitmovin Stream Lab MCP Server enables AI-powered real-time testing and analysis
www.tvbeurope.com/artificial-i...
www.tvbeurope.com/artificial-i...
Bitmovin Stream Lab MCP Server enables AI-powered real-time testing and analysis - TVBEurope
The solution aims to enhance testing processes by enabling natural language commanded fully automated testing across physical devices
www.tvbeurope.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Bitmovin Stream Lab MCP Server enables AI-powered real-time testing and analysis
www.tvbeurope.com/artificial-i...
www.tvbeurope.com/artificial-i...
2^11=2048 will be huge as 2^12 is crazy far in the future 😂
"2026" is a pretty futuristic-sounding year. 2027 is not. I can't explain this. The next big one is 2031. 2049 is gonna be huge.
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
2^11=2048 will be huge as 2^12 is crazy far in the future 😂
Something relevant for my students of my computer network class at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/i...
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world
Feature: The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
www.theregister.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Something relevant for my students of my computer network class at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social