Posted by Derrick on January 25, 2011 under Industry News | 
Sorenson Media Launches Sorenson Squeeze 7, a major upgrade of the company’s award-winning video encoding application, designed to save users valuable time while significantly boosting performance. Among its key new features are graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, adaptive bitrate encoding and myriad new input and output formats.
”The video encoding and publishing workflow is too often weighed down with tedious and repetitive steps that turn what should be an intuitive and painless experience into a time-consuming, even mind-numbing slog,” said Peter Csathy, CEO of Sorenson Media. “Sorenson Squeeze 7 takes the pain and drudgery out of the encoding process with advanced GPU acceleration and automation of all aspects of adaptive bit rate encoding. With this new version of Sorenson Squeeze, video professionals and broadcast organizations can encode and deploy top-quality online video in the formats they use most – and will save valuable time in the process, freeing them up to focus on their core revenue-generating business.”
The new Squeeze includes the following:
- New GPU Acceleration
- New Adaptive Bitrate Encoding
- New Input and Output Formats
- New Audio Only Output Formats
- New Adobe Premiere Plug-in
Sorenson Squeeze 7 is available immediately for electronic download or for shipping in CD form. The suggested retail price for Sorenson Squeeze 7 is $799. Upgrades from previous versions of Sorenson Squeeze begin at $299 (with special limited $199 introductory pricing for Squeeze 6 users).
Posted by Derrick on January 2, 2011 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Learn video compression in training classes. For those that need hands on training for video encoding our classes will get you up to speed quickly. All of our full 1-Day Wowza Media Server Training classes cover video compression for Flash Streaming. You’ll learn about the formats required for streaming on Wowza Media Servers. Your instructor will also teach you about the required profiles for the various formats. Classes are available On-line, in Florida and On-site at your location.
Give us a call about signing up to attend one of our Wowza Media Server 2 Trainings or Amazon EC2 Wowza Server Trainings. 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 December 9, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Learn about video codecs and formats in our 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Training. This class allows students to learn hands-on video compression and teaches about various compression methods such as 2-pass VBR, 2-pass CBR, 1-pass VBR, 1-pass CBR and multi-pass. This class provides a great understanding of streaming formats such as Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, Real Media, and MPEG-4. Attendees will also learn about keyframes, frames per second, profiles, and other compression adjustments. If you’d like to get into hands-on encoding this class is an excellent choice. Our instructor can effectively teach beginners and advanced users. Check out the Video Streaming and Compression Training Schedule for upcoming classes.
Give us a call about signing up to attend one of our Video Streaming and Compression Trainings in Orlando or On-line. 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 August 1, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Anystream, the leading provider of automated multi-platform media publishing solutions, announced that Agility 2G and Avalon products will produce VP8 video in support of the WebM initiative.
“A key factor in the web’s success is that its core technologies are open and freely implementable. Video is fundamental to the web experience, and developers and content publishers need an open video format option,” said Mike Jazayeri, Group Product Manager at Google. “We are excited Grab Networks is joining a broad coalition of industry leaders supporting the WebM project to bring a new era of open innovation in web video.”
“Avalon with VP8 automates media packaging for on-line distribution to YouTube.” said Jim Duval, Director of Product Management at Anystream. “Avalon eliminates the complexity of manually assembling and validating media, metadata, graphics and other media elements that are required by YouTube and other digital media distribution outlets.”
Agility 2G automates and streamlines content production and delivery for television, web and mobile media applications. In a single workflow, Avalon assembles and validates commercial metadata that is seen in the promotions and displays on video portals, electronic storefronts and electronic program guides. Avalon also converts media into the specified formats and packages the content with the metadata into media products that conform to all of the delivery requirements.
Shipment of Agility 2G with VP8 will begin in the second half of 2010.
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Posted by Derrick on July 9, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Digital Rapids — the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and Web content to wider audiences – announced that the company has signed an agreement to join the Polycom ARENA partner program. Polycom, a global leader in telepresence, video and voice communication solutions, initiated the ARENA program to allow software application providers, hardware device manufacturers, and conferencing solution providers to integrate their products with Polycom’s industry leading unified collaboration platform to create new applications.
The integration of Digital Rapids encoding and streaming solutions with the Polycom unified collaboration platform allows enterprises to extend the reach of their video beyond videoconferencing to additional viewing devices from Internet-connected PCs to mobile phones. Supporting both live streaming and recording for on-demand distribution, Digital Rapids’ flexible solutions seamlessly enable multi-platform distribution with simultaneous encoding to multiple output resolutions, bit rates and formats. Video from Polycom video conferencing endpoints and other sources can be encoded for streaming within or outside an organization, while integration with the Polycom Video Media Center (VMC™) provides enterprise users with content management, publishing, tracking and viewer access control.
“Enterprises and institutions in the corporate, government and educational markets are investing in solutions that improve productivity, accelerate decision making and lower costs. Through our involvement in the Polycom ARENA program, we are delivering integrated solutions that support these initiatives by enhancing video communications and streamlining video operations,” said Wesley Thiessen, Product Manager at Digital Rapids. “Our combined solutions allow Polycom customers to easily incorporate multi-format streaming video into their unified communications architectures, enabling them to reach broader audiences with the same outstanding visual quality that leading media companies have long benefited from in our encoders.”
“Polycom and its ARENA ecosystem partners such as Digital Rapids are focused on proliferating new collaborative communications solutions that will benefit organizations worldwide. Digital Rapids’ encoding and streaming solutions enable all types of organizations to extend and enhance their internal and external video communications across multiple viewing platforms,” said Mark Roberts, Vice President, Polycom ARENA Program. “We are pleased to welcome Digital Rapids into the Polycom ARENA program and look forward to working with them to deliver this important solution to customers.”
Digital Rapids encoding and streaming solutions include the versatile StreamZ and StreamZHD multi-format on-demand and live encoding systems; the StreamZ Live family of live streaming encoders; and TouchStream portable encoding and streaming appliances. Integration between the Polycom Video Media Center and select models of Digital Rapids solutions is planned for availability within the next 30 days, with additional integrations planned for later in the year.
