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

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More Churches Should Take Advantage of Streaming Media

Posted by Derrick on September 24, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

More Churches should take advantage of Streaming Media.  It’s unfortunate that with the many Churches throughout the world that many don’t.  However, Streaming Media is a great solution that Churches can take advantage of.  If you think about it one Church might have 2 services recorded per week, 8 services per month, and 96 services per year.  Wouldn’t it be great for Church members and others to be able to view any of the 96 Church services video taped over the course of 1 year? Well, this is possible for Churches that delivery Streaming Media.

What’s nice about delivering streaming video on-line is you can have the entire Church service placed on a Streaming Server.  You can add Chapter Points for viewers to be able to access the parts of the On-demand Streaming Video that they would like to see. You can have Chapters Points for Praise and Worship, the Pastor’s Sermon or Special Announcements.  Having streaming content also gives you a built in archive and also makes studying previous sermons easier for Church members and others.

With Streaming Media you can provide Live Streaming of Church Sermons, Conferences and other events.  You can then provide On-demand Streaming of similar video content after the event.

If you need assistance implementing your Streaming Video Operation call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com.  For those located in the United States, we provide On-site Consulting for setting up your Streaming Media Operation.  If you’re not interested in On-site Consulting you should consider attending one of our 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Training classes to learn more about Streaming Media.

LifeSize Communications Chooses Wowza for Video Streaming Solution

Posted by Derrick on July 4, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Wowza Media Systems, the media server company, announced that LifeSize Communications, a division of Logitech, has licensed the Wowza Media Server 2 software to support the delivery of streaming video via LifeSize Video Center.

Organizations are increasingly using video communications to share knowledge and communicate critical information. The unified streaming capabilities of Wowza Media Server 2 provide an effective solution to broadly extend the high definition video experience to desktop and mobile participants.

“Wowza shares our vision to make HD video communications accessible to anyone, anywhere,” said Rafi Anuar, product manager, LifeSize Communications. “The integration of Wowza software helps us give customers a cost-efficient video delivery architecture while expanding the type of devices they reach.”

Wowza software is part of LifeSize Video Center, the industry’s first solution to enable an unprecedented 20 concurrent recordings in HD, 1000 simultaneous live streams and up to 350 simultaneous on-demand streams, all in crisp, 720p30 HD video.

“Businesses who are serious about visual communications are looking for easy to use, highly efficient and integrated solutions that don’t limit them to specific client technologies or devices,” said Dave Stubenvoll, CEO and co-founder, Wowza Media Systems. “Placing our unified media server software as a component in LifeSize products takes immersive video to a new level of performance, cost effectiveness and simplicity.”

Wowza Media Server 2 is the first in the industry to offer a single software platform capable of simultaneously delivering video from a single encoded source to multiple clients and devices, including Adobe’s Flash player, Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Microsoft’s Silverlight and others. First to democratize media streaming, Wowza Media Server is recognized as the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice for Best Innovation of 2009.

Create FTP Accounts on Windows 2003 Server with FileZilla Server

Posted by Derrick on June 17, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Create FTP Accounts on Windows 2003 Server with FileZilla Server.  This is a free tool that you can use on your PC Server to quickly set-up your accounts.  The tool is straightforward and easy to use and works similar to other FTP tools.  FileZilla is not available on the Mac platform so you’ll need another FTP tool for that.  One of the benefits you’ll find with using FileZilla Server is the capability it gives you for creating accounts for on-demand streaming media. You can use FileZilla Server to create FTP accounts on your Windows Media Streaming Server, Wowza Media Server or Web Server.  Be sure to utilize this tool to keep your costs down and get started with your streaming media delivery.

Sorenson Media Partners with Adobe and Amazon Web Services to Present Training Workshop at 2010 Streaming Media East

Posted by Derrick on May 6, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Sorenson Media announced that the company will collaborate with Adobe and Amazon Web Services to present an informational online video workshop for participants at the 2010  Streaming Media East conference in New York City.

The two-hour workshop, entitled “The Business and Technology of Online Video,” will be held Tuesday, May 11 at the Hilton New York. Free to conference attendees, it will focus on simplifying the often difficult and unwieldy processes of encoding, managing, publishing and delivering video content over the Internet. Guided by step-by-step demonstrations, participants will learn how to capture, encode, store, publish, transcode and deliver their videos “in the cloud,” utilizing powerful features from the award-winning Sorenson Squeeze encoding solution, Sorenson 360 online video platform (OVP), and Amazon Web Services CloudFront and other streaming web services. The workshop will also cover integration capabilities of Sorenson Media’s total video solutions and Amazon Web Services with Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework. All attendees will receive a $50 Sorenson 360 usage voucher and $25 in Amazon Web Services usage credit.

“We are delighted to partner with two fellow industry leaders, Adobe and Amazon Web Services, to demonstrate innovative and intuitive approaches for online video production and deployment at the 2010 Streaming Media East conference,” said Eric Quanstrom, VP of marketing & strategy of Sorenson Media. “This is a tremendous opportunity to present the market’s highest-quality online video solutions to world-class individuals and organizations in a position to make optimal use of them.”

In addition to its involvement in the 2010 Streaming Media East workshop, Sorenson Media will serve as the official All-Star Sponsor for the 2010 Streaming Media All-Stars program. This sponsorship includes publication of the Streaming Media All-Stars feature in the April/May issue of Streaming Media, which goes out to approximately 20,000 readers, as well as a private event at a Mets baseball game on May 11 for select industry luminaries participating at Streaming Media East.

“It is fitting that Sorenson Media, whose technology has ‘sponsored’ so many transformative developments in the online video movement, is now sponsoring the celebration of key people helping to propel the industry forward,” said Quanstrom.  “We also plan to make other significant announcements in conjunction with the event, so stay tuned.”