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.

Wowza Media Server Provides Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming for iPhone

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

Wowza Media Server 2 Provides Multi-bitrate Video On Demand Streaming for iPhone.  This is just another item that can be added to this streaming server’s repertoire.  Whether iPhone users are using Edge or 3G the appropriate datarate streaming video can be delivered to the end users.  In addition, the switch between various datarates, if needed, happens very smoothly.  Today, many content providers are really pushing for some type of dynamic streaming or multi-bitrate option, which is a great thing.  There’s also an increased desire to delivery video to the iPhone. With the Apple iPhone being the ‘Killer App’, providing better experiences to this device will benefit many media outlets and content providers targeting streaming video for mobile devices

Visit Wowza Media Systems at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas

Posted by Derrick on May 19, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Visit Wowza Media Systems at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas.  One of the most exciting Video Streaming companies, Wowza Media Systems, will be at InfoComm and if you haven’t seen the capabilities of their Streaming Server up close, this will be a good opportunity to check it out.  Their Wowza Media Server 2 (Flash Streaming Server) is off the charts with features!

Wowza Media Server 2 supports the following:

• Re-streaming from RTSP based Live Encoders
• Re-streaming from RTSP IP Cameras
• Streaming to iPhone and iPod Touch
• Re-streaming from SHOUTCast Live Streams
• Secure Streaming Set-up
• Live Streaming Record
• Streaming with Amazon EC2
• Streaming to Multiple Wowza Media Servers (Load Balancing)
• Dynamic Streaming with Wowza and RTMP (Bitrate Switching)
• TV Channel Style Live Streaming with Scheduling

You can catch Wowza Media Systems at InfoComm June 9-11, 2010 Las Vegas, NV at Booth E2921.

Archiving Presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live

Posted by Derrick on January 16, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Archiving presentations for Flash Streaming without Streaming Live is a workflow that you can use with Telestream’s Wirecast tool.  For those of you that are not familiar with Wirecast, it’s a software-based Live Encoder available for Mac and PC.  The live encoder lets you perform tasks that you’ve only dreamed of.  For this post I wanted to shared Wirecast’s ability to Archive your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation along with a Web Cam or Video Camera.

Under the Broadcast Settings if you click the + button to add a new destination, instead of choosing a streaming server for the Destination you can choose Record to Disk.  You can customize you output location and filename of your file to archive.  For Flash you have the option to record files with the .f4v or the .m4v wrapper.  Once you adjust your settings you can then turn on the Record to Disk mode without Streaming Live by clicking the Broadcast button. Click stop Broadcasting when you presentation is done.  You’ll have to be sure to use the Desktop Presenter to display your PowerPoint, Keynote or .PDF presentation in Wirecast. When you finish recording your presentation you can upload your .f4v or .m4v video to your Flash Streaming Server.

To learn more about Recording to Disk and other features of Wirecast make sure you attend one of the FREE Episode Encoder, Wirecast and Sawmill Professional Trainings in your area.  Training sessions are coming up in Orlando on Jan. 22 and in Ohio on Feb. 19 in 2010.  You can also attend in Chicago, Las Vegas and New York.

Recording Videos With Wirecast on the Mac

Posted by Derrick on September 26, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

If you’re Recording videos with Wirecast on a Mac the formats that you can save to are QuickTime .mov, Flash .f4v and MPEG-4 .m4v.  The Record to Disk option is great way to archive your content to disk.  You can save the files for archiving or later playback from a Streaming Server.