Bitmovin was blessed with one of the busier stands at NAB 2022. The US encoding vendor has a reputation for spending more on merchandise and parties than it does on product marketing, but we definitely like where the R&D investments are being channeled. There were a slew of product updates to parade at the show, including the recently released Stream Lab feature set, which is probably not the VVC or AV1 update you wanted to read about – but is something that has raised a few eyebrows in the industry. The company’s conundrums were evident as Reinhard Grandl, VP of Product Management, grappled with how to convey Bitmovin’s latest technical innovations to Faultline using the best possible words. This is…