Posted by Derrick on October 15, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Wowza Media Server 2 is key for iPad Streaming whether it be for Live Streaming or On-demand. Those who chose to implement Wowza have an advantage for streaming to the Desktop, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and a host of mobile devices that support RTSP streaming. The Streaming Server holds many benefits and the fact that Wowza can satisfy the iPad Streaming phenomenon is important. If you’d like learn more about the ins and outs of Wowza and streaming to the iPad attend one of our 1-Day Wowza Media Server Training classes.
Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 for more information or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com. Individuals from any country can attend our On-line training classes.
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Posted by Derrick on May 2, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Sorenson Media announced that Go Daddy has chosen Sorenson Media video solutions to power its Quick Blogcast Web blogging platform for Mac users. Using Sorenson Squish, Sorenson Media’s proprietary browser-based encoding solution, Go Daddy Quick Blogcast customers can quickly and easily create, manage and publish video content, including podcasts and vlogs, for use on blog sites across the Web.
“Go Daddy is dedicated to keeping our services simple for our customers,” said Go Daddy vice president, Site Building Service, Wayne Oleksak. “Our partnership with Sorenson Media enables Mac-based bloggers to quickly and easily upload high-quality video content for their blogs.”
With Sorenson Squish, all encoding is done directly on the user’s desktop, making the video immediately ready for use in a Web environment and without the need for opening a separate application. The resulting smaller compressed file reduces bandwidth requirements and shortens upload time. The company’s best-in-class encoding technology ensures the highest-quality video content, while eliminating the need for encoding expertise and expensive, server-side infrastructure. Users can also easily capture and publish video content directly from their Webcam, DV cam or simply drag and drop a video file.
Go Daddy is one of a growing number of enterprise customers that have chosen Sorenson Media’s total video solutions to power their Internet video activities. The company has recently announced significant contracts with major universities throughout the world, as well as the John McCain 2010 re-election campaign.
“Our total end-to-end video solutions and APIs are tailor-made for the enterprise market,” said Kirk Punches, vice president of business development for Sorenson Media. “Our new partnership with Go Daddy underscores the reality that no one else empowers users with the same combination of quality, flexibility, control, intuitive functionality and cost-effectiveness that we offer.”
Tags: browser-based, content, Desktop, encoding, enterprise, podcasts, publish, Quick Blogcast, solution, Sorenson Media, Sorenson Squish, Video
Posted by Derrick on April 23, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Recording presentations with Keynote and PowerPoint using Wirecast is simply amazing. The folks at Telestream have an amazing tool on their hands and the way that Desktop Presenter works is really cool. If you have Desktop Presenter on your workstation with Keynote or PowerPoint, your presentation can be brought up on a separate computer running Wirecast. What’s nice is you can have several Desktop Presenters going within your Wirecast application. So if you wanted to have 5 different presenters speak during a Webcast or Video Recording you could have all 5 PowerPoint or Keynote presentations displayed at the appropriate time.
Posted by Derrick on February 3, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Compression using Encoding.com Desktop is very handy if you subscribe to the Encoding.com service. The Encoding.com Desktop Uploader is available for both Mac and PC users. This tutorial will get you familiar with using Encoding.com Desktop as you learn how to encode downloadable streaming videos for Flash using the On2VP6 codec. To help with this tutorial please sign-up for a free trial account at Encoding.com and install Encoding.com Desktop. The benefit of Encoding.com Desktop is it allows you to upload you videos to the Encoding.com Cloud for encoding instead of compressing videos on your desktop.
OK. Let’s begin.
Open up Encoding.com Desktop. Notice that in the image above it’s labeled encoding.com desktop uploader.app.
When Encoding.com Desktop opens go to the File Pull-down menu and click on Preferences.
When the Preferences Dialog window opens click on the Account tab. Before you can begin encoding videos you’ll need to add your User Id and API User Key here. This allows Encoding.com Desktop to know which account to upload videos to for encoding. Once you enter your information click the Save button.
First you need to add a source file to encode. Click on the Add Media button.
Then locate the video on your desktop that you would like to encode. For this tutorial I’m encoding the QuickTime video called 166_10105.mov.
Once you choose your video for encoding click the Select button.
You’ll see your video displayed now in Encoding.com Desktop. Select the video similar to above to create a compression preset. Once you select your video you will notice it highlighted.
With your video selected click the Add Task Items button.
When the dialog window opens listing your available presets click the Add Preset button. It’s located at the button left of the My Presets Dialog window.
Next, click the Save as button when the Video Compression Setting Dialog window opens.
Now type in the name for your compression setting. You can type in Flash_600k_DL. Once you name your setting click the Save button.
Now time to customize your compression setting. This preset will serve as a good starting point for encoding downloadable streaming video for high broadband viewers. On this preset you’re creating a good general setting that will work well for SD and HD content. Flash up to 9 should be selected. For the frame size select 480 x 360 and type in 600k for the Video bitrate. For audio type in 64k with 44100 for your sample rate with 2 for the Audio channels to make it stereo. Under the Video codec setting choose vp6 and for the audio codec choose libm3lame. Lastly for this section, click the 2 pass encoding check box.
Let’s continue with adjusting your preset. For the Minimum bit rate type in 100k and for Maximum bit rate type in 1000k. Make sure the De-interlacing check box is selected if your content in Interlaced. You can specify a Thumbnail size of 160 x 120 to get familiar with the thumbnail setting. You can leave it set at the default value for Time to capture thumbnail. For the Keyframe period type in 180. This will work well for a video that is 29.97 frames per second. For audio volume adjust this value to 200. This will boost the audio little for those that don’t have amplified speakers. Once you make all of your adjustments click the Save button. Now click on the Show Presets button.
When your presets display select the preset that you’ve just created and click the Add Task button. Your preset should be labeled Flash_600k_DL.
Now that your preset is applied you will see it displayed right below your source file. You can apply multiple compression presets to a source if you’d like.
Next when you’re ready for encoding to begin using the Encoding.com Cloud click the upload button and your file will begin uploading.
To check the status of your upload, you can click the Show Details button within Encoding.com Desktop.
The Show Details section will display the Start Upload Time and End Upload time for your video upload. If you see the End Upload Time displayed you’ll know that video has finished uploading. To see the processing status of the actually encoding you can view your Encoding Queue within your Encoding.com account on-line. Congratulations! Now your familiar with utilizing Encoding.com Desktop to upload videos for encoding with the Encoding.com Cloud.
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