Box had to pull off its IPO. What's the point of acquiring company ? Founders also seem to have some weird data on linkedin. 13 yrs of experience when he is 20. Ha ha ha...
As if we have got new Einstein !!
There is no wonder this will turn out a mistake by Box.
Startup bubble has started. Cash out and get out.
Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
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Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#32And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally. How is this technically possible?
We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.
How is this different than adaptive streaming?
Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#33Congrats! I just hope the acquisition was all cash, and not for stock.
Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#34(Streem co-founder here) Small clerical error - we were actually YC S12, not W14 :).
congrats guys!
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.
If you are using FFMPEG for this, would you care to share your hack ?
One hopes Box didn't acquire a company with only a beta-invite product for simply their ffmpeg one-liners...
Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#36(Streem co-founder here) Small clerical error - we were actually YC S12, not W14 :).
congrats Ritik! Proud of ya
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#37Smart acquisition! I didn't know about Streem, wow what a great idea. The one thing always holding me back from day to day usage of Dropbox / Box etc is being able to mount these drives in Windows. I would definitely sign up / pay for an account now.
You've been able to mount Box drives on Windows since at least 2006. They support Webdav, which Windows XP and above can mount natively.
Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#38And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally. How is this technically possible?
They've developed a new compression algorithm with a Weissman score of 5.2.
+1
Re: Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)
#39no wonder why they had to pull IPO.