Experience the World of Analytics with Sawmill Professional

Posted by Derrick on October 7, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Experience the World of Analytics with Sawmill Professional. If you haven’t had a chance to experience analytics you should really consider using Flowerfire’s Sawmill. Many organizations don’t even consider the option to analyze their Web Server or Streaming Server traffic. Some organizations have millions of web visitors within a 3 month period and can benefit from utilizing analytics with Sawmill. You can use reports generated with Sawmill to recognize successes, errors/problems, and understand your viewers better.  Many organizations in the U.S. that have websites or delivery streaming video content are likely to have many web and streaming viewers abroad but don’t realize it. Creating reports with Sawmill can help you take understand you international viewers better as well as improve your on-line content. What’s great about Sawmill is that it can process 853 log formats.  Attend one of our 1-Day Sawmill Professional Training classes to get a better understanding analytics with Sawmill.  Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 for more information or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com.

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.

Yummy FTP Software Provides Scheduled Uploading

Posted by Derrick on September 22, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Yummy FTP software provides scheduled uploading of files to your Web Server or Streaming Server.  Yummy is one of the coolest FTP applications that I’ve seen.  Currently the program is only available for Mac users and there’s a 30 day trial if you want to take the tool for a “test drive”.

The scheduling feature of Yummy is amazing and allows you to designate an FTP folder for automated scheduling.  You can have Yummy check your FTP folder for new files every day, every hour, or every 15 minutes.  Basically you can choose whatever frequency you want for scheduling.  Yummy will be great for those that have a Streaming Video Operation.  You can encode your videos and have them output to your FTP folder.  Then, whenever there are new encoded videos, the files will be delivered to the Web Server or Streaming Server.  If you’re a Mac user make sure you give the Yummy FTP software a try.

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