Posted by Derrick on April 15, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Kaltura, Inc., developer of the first open source online video platform announced it will provide full support for Microsoft Silverlight to its existing customers and future prospects. The Silverlight-based player and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming will be available with Kaltura’s hosted and self-hosted editions.
“Kaltura’s video platform will offer all major video technologies, including Silverlight, Adobe Flash, and HTML5. The addition of Silverlight enables rich new functionalities and provides greater flexibility to our users,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “Silverlight is a great enhancement to our developer community as it enables developers who are fluent in the Microsoft developer platform to participate and build new applications that provide unique value to Silverlight publishers.”
“Microsoft is excited to see Kaltura invest support for Silverlight and Microsoft developer platform on its open source online video platform,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “As online video development continues to grow, Web developers will be truly benefit from the tools offered by Kaltura.”
Posted by Derrick on April 6, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced that it has partnered with international multimedia specialist Twofour Digital, to provide the first fully-automated end-to-end HD Smooth Streaming encoding and digital rights management (DRM) deployment for video-on-demand content in the Pan-European marketplace.
Inlet’s automated VOD workflow management system Armada, along with Twofour Digital’s delivery and publishing platform MEDIAFREEDOM are fully configured to support Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight PlayReady DRM. By intelligently managing the entire file preparation process, Armada significantly improves the capacity and throughput of high-volume video transcoding environments. By combining Armada and MEDIAFREEDOM, content providers can now meet stringent DRM requirements with end-to-end content encryption and authentication control for the delivery of on-demand content to any device.
“By teaming with other leading providers like Twofour Digital, we are defining the gold standard for delivering exceptional quality and highly-secure online digital content in the marketplace,” said Don Bossi, CEO, Inlet Technologies. “We help our customers streamline costs and processes, making it easier to reach new audiences while monetizing and protecting their assets.”
“Our joint solution ultimately supports a better quality of experience for consumers, translating directly into higher ‘time spent watching’ rates,” said Paul Tarplee, Managing Director, Twofour Digital. “Bottom line for content providers: the more time a consumer spends interacting with and viewing their content, the more opportunities to monetize that content.”
Inlet was the first encoding solutions provider to announce support for Smooth Streaming for both live streaming and VOD applications. Smooth Streaming dynamically detects local bandwidth and CPU conditions and seamlessly switches the bitrate of a media file that a player receives. As a result, consumers are ensured a high-quality, uninterrupted streaming experience.
Posted by Derrick on February 9, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Wowza Media Systems, the media server company, demonstrated its unified media server, Wowza Media Server 2, at the CableLabs Winter Conference 2010 February 7-9th in Denver, Colorado.
Wowza was chosen to be among a group of companies that were present to demonstrate at the CableLabs Innovation Showcase during the conference. The showcase featured 12 companies, a combination of established and venture capital-stage companies, who presented and demonstrated cutting edge broadband technologies for the audience of predominantly cable technology executives.
Wowza’s demonstration highlighted how cable providers can cost-effectively deploy client agnostic WebTV and MobileTV infrastructures that encompass multiple player and device platforms, including Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight smooth streaming, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and IPTV set-top boxes.
Wowza Media Server 2 is the first platform that allows streaming from one H.264 encode simultaneously to multiple players and devices. As a result, cable providers and other organizations serious about delivering video can slash capital and operational costs. By enabling simultaneous streaming to multiple clients from a single standard H.264 live encoder or file, Wowza Media Server 2 eliminates the need for separate client-specific encoders and media servers.
Wowza Media Server 2 is the only software on the market to natively implement concurrent streaming support for Adobe RTMP protocol suite, Apple HTTP Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, RTSP/RTP delivery for Apple QuickTime, mobile and other clients as well as MPEG-TS for IPTV set-top delivery.
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