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Fabio Sonnati

@sonnati

Consultant, Engineer, blogger / speaker, expert in streaming and encoding

 Italy
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Joined July 2009
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In 2021 I celebrate a professional achievement: 10 years of NTT Data Hyper. A high quality, high performance, hybrid-cloud transcoder, built facing the challenges of the last decade... sonnati.wordpress.com/2021/0…
HYPER: a decade of challenges and achievements.

HYPER: a decade of challenges and achievements.

Who follows me since the years of Flash Player and Adobe Media Server knows that I’ve been busy in the last 15 years developing encoders, players and in general software architectures to enab…

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New Post on Continuous Quality Improvement practices in Video Streaming lnkd.in/p/eJavqiEi
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Ultra HD 4k news 📺@UHD4kAug 17
Change in monthly subscription prices for select streaming services from launch year to 2026 [for the lowest ad-free tier – typically not the 4K HDR Dolby Atmos tier] Chart by @AxiosVisuals
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Ultra HD 4k news 📺@UHD4kAug 5
[Within 🇪🇺 Europe,] 🇮🇹 Italy leads in HD broadcasting with 61 HD channels, followed by 🇩🇪 Germany (33) and 🇫🇷 France and 🇪🇸 Spain (26 each). Ultra HD TV channels remain marginal, with limited availability in France and Spain. advanced-television.com/2026…
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Film Grain Synthesis: The Most Disruptive Yet Underrated Video Encoding Technique sonnati.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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Fabio Sonnati@sonnatiJul 29
🚀 Beyond the Codec – The Series 🎯 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 ? lnkd.in/p/d7S3y4Eq
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🚀 Beyond the Codec – The Series 🎯 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 ? lnkd.in/p/d7S3y4Eq
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Fabio Sonnati@sonnatiJul 24
From Per-Title Encoding to Perception-Aware Streaming: A Technical Manifesto. sonnati.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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From Per-Title Encoding to Perception-Aware Streaming: A Technical Manifesto. sonnati.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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Film Grain Synthesis: The Most Disruptive Yet Underrated Video Encoding Technique sonnati.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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Ultra HD 4k news 📺@UHD4kApr 1
Following Netflix’s latest optimization round, which introduced Film Grain Synthesis (FGS) in their AV1 encoding pipeline, the service streams some movies at bitrates as low as 200 kbps: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… via Fabio @Sonnati
#netflix #av1 #filmgrainsynthesis #streaming #videoencoding #imax | Fabio Sonnati | 16 comments

#netflix #av1 #filmgrainsynthesis #streaming #videoencoding #imax | Fabio Sonnati | 16 comments

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟬...

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In today’s streaming war, keeping viewers hooked isn’t optional — it’s survival. But what really drives engagement? And why does it have such a massive impact on churn? sonnati.wordpress.com/2025/1…
Engagement vs Churn in Video Streaming: How to Keep Viewers Hooked

Engagement vs Churn in Video Streaming: How to Keep Viewers Hooked

[Note: Article originally published on linkedin]In the hyper-competitive world of video streaming, keeping subscribers engaged isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s crucial. Engagement is inv…

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Analyzing the encoding strategies of top streaming services is key for staying competitive. Here's a look at how they manage content-aware encoding, and quality/bitrate ratio linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Last-ever programming book just released by Oreilly reddit.com/r/programmerhumor…
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2002, Macromedia released Flash Communication Server, a milestone in modern video streaming. After 20 years RTMP, one of its foundational technology, is still among us…sonnati.wordpress.com/2022/1…
FCS and RTMP – Streaming Technologies from the future

FCS and RTMP – Streaming Technologies from the future

I remember clearly the enthusiasm and excitement when I moved my first steps in streaming and real-time communication. I was already fond of video compression and interactive web and was working ac…

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The picture shows a video conference application I developed in 2004. The particularity was the possibility to show to remote audience our own real desktop using a “document cam” and compare with that of other partecipants in split screen.
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AI at Meta
@AIatMeta22 Dec 2022
Announcing OPT-IML: a new language model from Meta AI with 175B parameters, fine-tuned on 2,000 language tasks — openly available soon under a noncommercial license for research use cases. Research paper & more details on GitHub ⬇️

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C++: goto reddit.com/r/programmerhumor…
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Supervised learning. reddit.com/r/programmerhumor…
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I believe @platformatic db is the next big thing in building quickly and retain control over complexity! Great job @matteocollina and team!!!
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Things to do before unveiling the first @platformatic OSS tool: 1. take daughter to pre-school 👨‍👧 2. Prep GitHub repo 3. Website Website Website fixes (thanks @docusaurus) 4. Record video with @loom 5. Npm publish (thankfully the blog post is already written).
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