Jan Ozer

Ozer is a leading expert on H.264, H.265, and VP9 encoding for live and on-demand production. In his consulting practice, Ozer helps streaming publishers produce highly optimized and deliverable streams and to choose encoders, transcoders, and workflows that optimize cost, efficiency and flexibility. Ozer is a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, where he reviews codecs, on-premise and cloud encoders, and ancillary tools like QoE and QoS monitoring services. Skilled in video production and editing, Ozer also produces live events for streaming or on-demand and disc-based distribution.

Ozer blogs at http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/ and is the author of over 20 streaming and video-related books, including Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video, and Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less. His books have consistently garnered five-star reviews on Amazon and have been adopted as textbooks by multiple colleges and universities.