Live Streaming Consulting for TouchStream

Posted by Derrick on October 23, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Live Streaming Consulting for TouchStream is available at Freeman Compression.  For those that desire to move away from software based live encoding Digital Rapids’ TouchStream is a suitable solution.  It’s a hardware based encoder with excellent streaming video quality. What’s important these days is that it support Flash Live Streaming via the On2 VP6 codec and the H.264 codec.  For Flash Streaming, the Live Encoder supports both RTSP  and RTMP protocols for streaming. In addition the TouchStream is portable so it’s great for Live Webcasting on location and out in the field.

If you need consulting for configuring your TouchStream Live Encoder with Wowza Media Server contact Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com.

FFmpeg for Encoding Via the Command Line

Posted by Derrick on September 5, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

FFmpeg for Encoding via the command line is really cool.  I had a chance to dive into command line encoding with FFmpeg recently and it’s very interesting.  The quality of video output to the H.264 codec is amazing.  The application takes a little bit of work to set up and get the proper presets configured for H.264.  However, once you get it going it’s very nice for one-off encoding jobs.  I also noticed that the encoding process with FFmpeg happens very quickly.  It’s the best tool I’ve seen so far for encoding to Smartphones. If you’d like to start using FFmpeg or get more information on the tool visit the FFmpeg website.

Processors and Screen Displays Two Important Elements for Mobile Streaming

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

Processors and screen displays are two important elements for Mobile Streaming. The fact that many of the latest mobile devices support the H.264 codec is a great thing.  Many of the most popular Streaming Servers also support streaming delivery of H.264.  With these two items in place the responsibility now falls on the mobile devices that companies and making. To experience success in today’s mobile market with streaming Smartphones must get better.

Processing power is very important as the delivery of H.264 is more challenging than MPEG-4 on the decoding end.  It’s great that many mobile devices are ready to delivery excellent streaming.  However, there are many Smartphones that aren’t ready for ‘prime-time’. Outside processors, screen displays carry a heavy burden of making mobile streaming better.  There are many Smartphones that have poor screen displays but it’s great that many have wonderful displays.  As consumers look towards the option to watch streaming video on there mobile devices the successful ones will undoubtedly have better processors and screen displays.  We should all be thankful for the companies that have already delivered to the market Smartphones with processors and displays perfectly ripe for mobile streaming.

Video Streaming Shifts to Mobile Devices

Posted by Derrick on August 18, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Video Streaming Shifts to Mobile Devices and this is bringing plenty of excitement to video content providers and end users. Many are not only looking to provide video streaming experiences for viewers only on the desktop but many are now targeting Mobile Devices as well. This is great because now the latest Mobile Devices are ready for ‘prime-time’. The key to the streaming video revolution on Mobile Devices is many of the newest Smartphones support the H.264 codec, have powerful processors and can take advantage of 3G speeds. So the streaming landscape for Mobile Devices today is much different from many years ago when mobile connection speeds were much lower, many devices only supported MPEG-4 Part 2 and processors were not as powerful.

Now with these great Mobile Devices, video content providers will need to employ a Streaming Server that can assist with the streaming video delivery. Wowza Media Systems is positioned to be a winner of the sweepstakes for “Mobile Streaming Delivery” with their Wowza Media Server 2 Streaming Server. The Streaming Server supports video delivery to: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and a plethora Smartphones that support Real-time Streaming.  The good news is that streaming experiences on Mobile Devices can only get better and it’ll be exciting to see the end user experiences that develop as Video Streaming Shifts to Mobile Devices.