Specialized Media Tech Engineering Partner

The Engineering Partner behind the world's Streaming Platforms!

We engineer and operate complex video infrastructures alongside the organizations defining the future of media with the depth, continuity, and engineering perspective that mission-critical platforms demand.

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Content Delivery

12.4M

Viewers

94%

Completion

1.7h

Avg. play

LIVE BROADCAST

12.4M watching

2.4ms latency

4K · HDR · Widevine

1:24:38

4K DRM

Big Buck Bunny · Live Event ABR · HLS · CMCD

99.9%

Uptime SLA

↑ 0.1% WoW

2.4ms

Latency P99

▼ 12ms

Active streams

↑ 3 today

Open incidents

All clear

All systems operational · 2s ago

Encoding

72%

CDN Edge

91%

DRM / Auth

38%

Origin · 92 nodes

55%

12.4M

Viewers

1.7h

Avg. play

94%

Completion

1.2s

Start time

0.3%

Rebuffering

8.4M

Avg. bitrate

CMCD C2PA MoQ HLS DASH CMAF AI

Merged: CMCD v2 implementation

PR open: C2PA signing module

Released: common-media-library v3.1

Speakers at Demuxed

Our Approach

What makes us different

We come from media technology

Encoding, DRM, players, live operations, delivery, standards, this is the world our engineers already live in. Teams ramp in days, not quarters, and every conversation starts at the real problem.

We build on know-how

As AI makes code cheaper to write, the real work moves elsewhere: framing the right problem, designing an architecture that holds up, and keeping the solution as simple as the problem allows.

We're in for the long road

We get genuinely invested in your platform, goals, constraints, and people. We stay through the evolution, treating outcomes as our own. Care is how we work, and partnerships behind us run for years.

We help move the industry forward

We're part of how streaming advances, contributing to C2PA, MoQ and CMCD, and hosting the meetups and Summer Camps where the people building media actually meet.

AI Media Workflows

Your partner building AI in production streaming

In media technology, manual workflows are bottlenecks. We help organizations design and implement media workflows reimagined through machine learning: automating encoding decisions, optimizing delivery, predicting failures before they happen, and expanding what your infrastructure can handle — without losing the control and visibility that mission-critical platforms require.

How we approach it

We don't add AI to existing processes. We redesign them around what machine learning can do, engineering solutions that learn from your data, adapt to your users, and give you genuine operational advantages that traditional engineering can't match. Your team understands every decision the system makes.

Explore our AI approach

Data-Driven Foundation

Workflows that learn from your platform's data, patterns, and performance history.

Transparent Decision-Making

You understand how the system makes every decision. Full visibility into ML reasoning, not black boxes.

Gradual Validation

Rollout incrementally. Test in sandbox environments first, validate results, then expand to production.

Continuous Learning

The system adapts as your platform evolves. Feedback loops that improve over time, not static rules.

Community

We grow through the
people we work with!

The streaming and media tech ecosystem is built on real conversations, shared challenges, and people who care deeply about getting it right. We are part of that, contributing to standards and specs, hosting events where builders actually meet, and sharing what we learn.
We care about the people we work with, both inside and outside, and take pride in being part of Qualabs. We actively create an environment where people feel valued, supported, and motivated to grow together.

Standards we contribute to

C2PA

Open MoQ CMCD v2

"Congrats to Qualabs for emerging as CMCD experts and core contributors. Your commitment to the open-source community, especially through your Summer Camps, is commendable and appreciated globally. By bringing ideas to life, you've improved QoE for end-users, effectively translating engineering concepts into smiles on people's faces. Well done Qualabs!"

Will Law

Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group · Akamai

Upcoming events

JUL 30· Meetup 🌐 Online · 12pm UY

Qualabs’ Tech Meetup

"AI in Production: What's Actually Shipping in Media Workflows"

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JUL 29–30· Conference 🇺🇸 Seattle, WA

Buffer-Free Video Conference

The video developer conference. JP and Nico will be there.

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SEP 11-14· Industry Event 🇳🇱 Amsterdam

IBC 2026

A key global meeting point for media, entertainment, broadcast, streaming, and technology leaders.

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Voices From The Industry

What people say about us

"Kudos to Qualabs and to everyone contributing to the C2PA efforts. Could not have asked for better partners. It was rewarding to work with people that share a desire to move the industry forward by solving real problems."

Kirk Haller

Engineering Manager · United States

"Working with the talented team at Qualabs on solutions at the frontier of the evolving media delivery landscape is always a pleasure, and the results vividly demonstrate their strong technical knowledge and the importance of partnerships in this marketplace."

Olga Kornienko

COO and Co-Founder · United States

"If you need help building something in your video stack and don't have resources, expertise, or experience, you can't go wrong with Qualabs! They are not only amazingly knowledgeable and deeply committed to the streaming industry. They make an impact by building courses to help people implement CMCD and contributing code to the SVTA Common Media Library."

Jason Thibeault

CEO at SVTA · United States

"Qualabs brought significant value to our collaboration from day one, demonstrating a deep understanding of both the technology and the industry landscape. Their proactive approach, combined with their ability to swiftly integrate diverse video technologies, has been instrumental in advancing our projects. It's clear they are insiders in the industry, and always ready to push forward with innovative ideas."

Mahmoud Al-Daccak

Sr. Director, Product Development Eng · USA

"When we started building our real time video product, we were working on a pretty lean team, so we reached out to Qualabs to get feedback on the user experience of this new product. This really helped us understand where the documentation maybe was weak or where we picked the wrong abstraction potentially in an SDK, to help us refine the product."

Phil Cluff

Product Manager · United Kingdom

"From on boarding to delivery, the process was smooth and problem free. Qualabs brought some extremely talented engineering resources to the table, ensuring a swift turnaround time for the assigned tasks. The assigned resources demonstrated a high degree of resourcefulness and creativity which was instrumental to the success of the project."

Adnan Kasenally

Senior Director - Operations & Delivery · Canada

Our People

Built by people who breathe media technology!

We're not a staffing company. We're a community of ambitious, curious, and values-driven engineers who chose media technology because they find it genuinely inspiring.

We foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and strategic thinking. We build an environment where people feel challenged, supported, and proud, where you shape the future of streaming and belong to something that matters.

If you want to build here, we want to talk.

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