If you’ve followed tech news in the past years, you will have probably noticed cloud gaming as one of the new and emerging trends. With platforms like GeForce Now (NVIDIA), Stadia (from Google), or PlayStation Now (from Sony), you can access gaming content without having to own expensive gaming equipment. The gaming providers simply send a pre-encoded video to your machine — all you have to do is play the game.

But how good is the quality of such solutions? It certainly depends on the implementation of the app itself, but also on your network conditions. This is why we at AVEQ developed a solution to measure the quality of cloud gaming — we did it together with an ISP and a cloud gaming operator, to fully leverage the knowledge and expertise of all involved parties. Here we describe our solution, the test setup, and how we found out how well 5G and DSL can work for such services, including what ranges of latency to expect.

(This post is part 1 of a small series on our development work.)

Imagine you are developing a video platform – you want to ensure that your platform works well for all users and that all assets are playable at their highest quality. Normally you’d do this via integration testing of your website – a rather complex task involving tools like Selenium and writing a lot of custom code.

AVEQ’s Surfmeter solution has always enabled video providers to measure the quality of their playouts. Now we’re proud to present our newest solution: video analytics for browser automation testing! With zero configuration needed, all you need to do is add our Surfmeter Test Automation plugin to your Selenium-based tests.

Video streaming is one of the most important online service offerings. It has become ubiquitous. And content is king. We all agree there is a lot of demand for video – high quality video, delivered flawlessly, without interruptions. But how do all these video streaming providers measure up? Do they, do you deliver the quality and customer experience we all want?