Streaming to Mobile Devices Training Launches in September

Posted by Derrick on July 29, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Streaming to Mobile Devices Training launches in September.  There has been great interest in streaming video and especially the desire to add another delivery outside of desktop video playback. Streaming to mobile devices is much more challenging than delivering to the desktop.  This new class will cover tools for mobile video encoding, video compression techniques, streaming server delivery, and other items.   If you need to stream video content to iPhone,  iPod Touch, Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung or other Smartphones this class is for you. Look for the class on our Video Streaming and Compression Training Schedule in September 2010.

Wowza Media Server Provides Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming for iPhone

Posted by Derrick on July 28, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Wowza Media Server 2 Provides Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming for iPhone.  This is just another item that can be added to this streaming server’s repertoire.  Whether iPhone users are using Edge or 3G the appropriate datarate streaming video can be delivered to the end users.  In addition, the switch between various datarates, if needed, happens very smoothly.  Today, many content providers are really pushing for some type of dynamic streaming or multi-bitrate option, which is a great thing.  There’s also an increased desire to delivery video to the iPhone. With the Apple iPhone being the ‘Killer App’, providing better experiences to this device will benefit many media outlets and content providers targeting streaming video for mobile devices

Mirror Image Internet and Wowza Media Systems Support High Capacity CDN Streaming to iPad, iPhone, Wii, PS3 and Other Entertainment Platforms

Posted by Derrick on July 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Mirror Image Internet, a leading provider of content delivery solutions, announced expanded streaming capabilities with partner, Wowza Media Systems, boosting per-server performance to 10 Gbps for high capacity video streaming. Since the companies began working together in 2009, the partnership has enabled organizations to take advantage of video streaming to the latest and most popular devices and platforms including Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, with hundreds of customers streaming content on Mirror Image’s network through Wowza servers.

Video streaming, on the Web and to mobile devices, has quickly become one of the leading content strategies, with growth only expected to continue. According to results of Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, global Internet video traffic will surge past P2P traffic by the end of this year, emerging as the Internet’s largest growth driver. By 2014 Cisco anticipates the Internet video traffic will equate to two years of video every second. Given these numbers, content providers and organizations need more delivery support than ever, at minimal infrastructure cost. Mirror Image and Wowza offer a compelling range of high-capacity services to its customers, including streaming video, without requiring them to encode content in multiple formats for each destination client.

“Building on our core content delivery capabilities — streaming and media management — working with Wowza over the last year has further set us apart from our competition in so many ways,” said James G. Hart, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Mirror Image Internet. “Whether our customers are streaming to mobile devices, incorporating new platforms and media formats into their content delivery strategy, or they are on a tight budget, Wowza has allowed us to deliver a unique streaming service to our customers each and every time.”

Over the last year, Mirror Image has continued to expand its client base by offering CDN services that meet the increasingly bandwidth-heavy requirements of organizations today. This includes focusing on mobile video streaming and expanding the capabilities of its Media Management Platform (MMP).

Mirror Image and the Wowza Media Server 2 software provide high-performance content delivery to a growing roster of customers including Streamquik, WBRC-TV, Vingo.tv, Internet Video Archive among many others. Additionally, the Wowza Media Server 2’s unified capability that enables streaming to Adobe Flash, iPhone/iPad, Microsoft Silverlight and other clients from a single encode continues to distinguish Mirror Image from other CDN providers.

“Mirror Image’s ability to stay nimble and respond to customer needs quickly, including providing scalable CDN services for a growing number of devices and platforms has made the company a natural fit for our server software,” said David Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-founder, Wowza Media Systems. “Wowza is committed to providing customers with options and partnering with Mirror Image has allowed us to extend those options to a new crop of customers.”

The Mirror Image global network provides a wide range of platforms including Wowza Media, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Windows Media/Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, RealNetworks RealVideo and others to meet the growing demands of the company’s client base.

Converting hundreds of .MOD video files to .MOV

Posted by Derrick on July 26, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Converting hundreds of .MOD video files to .MOV is more than likely something that will become very popular.  This is because of the many video cameras that capture videos to SD Memory Cards instead of having the Firewire feature.  I had a chance recently to create a video compression workflow for converting 240 .MOD MPEG-PS files to QuickTime DV-NTSC .MOV for a Summer Art Camp video editing project.  75 4th – 8th grade campers learned videography techniques and Non-linear Editing with iMovie.  The final video editing project consisted of 240 15 second .MOV video clips from the week long art camp.  To get the .MOD video files to .MOV MPEG Streamclip was used. The batch encoding features within this FREE tool made it a natural fit for the project.  Also the video preview in MPEG Streamclip to watch the current video that was processing was invaluable.

After converting the 240 .MOD files  to .MOV they were imported into Apple’s iMovie where students editing the video clips to music.

Keys to remember:

• .MOD files can’t be imported into Apple’s iMovie
• .MOD files can be copied off the SD Memory card to your Hard Disk without conversion
• .You can view .MOD files in MPEG Streamclip if you have an MPE2 codec.
• Use the Batch List feature when converting numerous .MOD files to .MOV

Managing Video Streaming and Compression Operations

Posted by Derrick on July 25, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Managing Video Streaming and Compression Operations is one of the consulting services that Freeman Compression Inc. provides. This is a perfect solution for those organizations that don’t want to become experts at Video Streaming or Compression. This service is also ideal or clients that mainly want to ensure that their streaming video content gets on-line promptly along with someone other than their organization providing technical support. Our management of your Video Streaming and Compression services can take place remotely allowing us to manage video encoding, video archiving, compression presets, web page authoring, streaming server management and technical support. Give us a call about having Freeman Compression Inc. manage your Video Streaming and Compression Operation. You can call us at 407.477.5837 for more information or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.