Last update: 25/05/2021
SVT turns to open source for its digital tools
Swedish national public television broadcaster SVT has committed in 2018 to increase working with open source. Having released a number of own developments over the last years, SVT is now publishing its in-house transcoding software Encore for anyone to use. The digitisation of broadcasters is not quite new, but the exposure to open source software has increased over recent years, as it has in many sectors. Not removed from movement of time, a first decision in 2018 to strive for more open source was still cautious. Josef Anderson, today Open Source Lead at SVT, asked readers in March 2018 to…
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