Puffer (puffer.stanford.edu) is a free and open-source live TV streaming website

Puffer (puffer.stanford.edu) is a free and open-source live TV streaming website, and also a research study at Stanford University using machine learning to improve video streaming.

More details can be found on the website, in our research paper (Community Award winner at NSDI 2020), and in the documentation.

Stream live TV in your browser. There's no charge. You can watch U.S. TV stations affiliated with the NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Fox, and CW networks.

Puffer works well in the Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers, on a computer or an Android phone or tablet. Puffer does not work on iPhones or iPads or in the Safari browser.

Puffer is a research project in the computer-science department at Stanford University. Please see the FAQ and our research paper (Community Award winner at USENIX NSDI 2020) for more information.

https://puffer.stanford.edu/

https://puffer.stanford.edu/faq/

https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer/wiki/Documentation

Netflix Research

Just stumbled on this cool website where Netflix openly posts about some of the research they are doing. 

https://research.netflix.com/

Video Encoding and Quality

https://research.netflix.com/research-area/video-encoding-and-quality

AI and Machine Learning

https://research.netflix.com/research-area/machine-learning

Streaming

https://research.netflix.com/business-area/streaming

CENTRE for DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING, Dublin City University, Ireland

http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/

The Centre for Digital Video Processing is a cross-disciplinary research centre and a collaboration between the School of Computing and the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University. In 1999 we were awarded "University Designated Research Centre" status. Our mission is to research and develop techniques and tools to automatically analyse and index digital video information and allow content-based operations such as browsing, searching, alerting, filtering and summarisation.