Posted by Derrick on June 15, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Envivio announced that N-Type, a leading systems integrator in Taiwan, is deploying a multi-channel Envivio Mobile TV Headend that will enhance the capabilities of Taiwan’s largest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT). The all-IP Envivio Mobile TV head-end featuring the 4Caster™ C4 Three Screens encoder/transcoder replaces CHT’s existing software-based infrastructure, enabling CHT to support today’s most exciting Android smartphones and the Apple iPhone. The headend will deliver both 3GPP and HTTP live streaming services. CHT presently serves over 9.4 million mobile subscribers, with more than half of those (4.9 million) receiving 3G services.
“The CHT team knows that when a subscriber chooses an advanced smartphone, they expect to take full advantage of their device’s vibrant screen and performance capabilities,” said Wilson Liu, General Manager, N-type. “Envivio’s Mobile TV Headend will enable CHT to deliver services that consistently provide an outstanding experience that is tailored to today’s most desirable devices. We are also streamlining CHT’s operations because Envivio multi-profile encoders simultaneously prepare content for all devices and delivery methods.”
Envivio’s Mobile TV Headend uses the 4Caster C4 to encode content in multiple profiles to enable full support for Apple’s HTTP live streaming technology. This adaptive live streaming solution combined with Envivio’s H.264 Extreme™ codec ensures the continuous delivery of video to iPhones, regardless of fluctuations in network bandwidth. Envivio’s 4Caster C4 simultaneously streams the same content for 3G devices, which can include iPhones and the latest generation Android smartphones. Advanced features such as network-aware rate control and video display aspect ratio management help to ensure the best quality of experience for customers.
“The mobile device landscape is constantly changing,” said Envivio CEO Julien Signès. “The Envivio Mobile TV Headend gives service providers like CHT the flexibility and reliability needed so that they are fully prepared to support the demands of their subscribers with the best possible video experience, regardless of what new device or format may come along. The expertise of our partner, N-Type, is invaluable in helping CHT smoothly and quickly migrate its headend.”
The Envivio 4Caster C4 encoding platform provides video compression for all Three Screens of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile devices – from a single platform. Designed to enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the 4Caster C4 is able to take multiple channels of content and encode them simultaneously to deliver multiple mobile TV profiles, multiple Internet TV profiles, or SD and HD IPTV profiles.
Tags: 3GPP, Apple, encoder, encoding, Envivio, Envivio 4Caster C4, Envivio Mobile TV, HTTP, iPhone, Live Streaming, technology, transcoder
Posted by Derrick on June 9, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Limelight Networks, Inc. extended its longstanding strategic relationship with Adobe by announcing support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming for the Adobe(R) Flash(R) Platform. Through this relationship, Limelight Networks will be first content delivery service in production with the solution. The announcement was made at the Streaming Media East trade show (May 11-13, 2010 in New York, NY), where Limelight Networks and Adobe were demonstrating.
Content publishers can begin working with Limelight Networks today to prepare their infrastructure and design their content distribution strategies for HTTP Dynamic Streaming. They can use the beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to experience the high-quality streaming that this innovative platform provides for their online audiences, and then be ready for immediate service deployment when the final version of Flash Player 10.1 is released which is expected in the first half of 2010.
“Limelight Networks and Adobe engineering resources have collaborated over the past few months to integrate the innovations of HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Adobe Flash Media Server with our global delivery platform. Together, we have developed a finely-tuned delivery service that supports standards-based HTTP streaming,” said Peter Coppola, vice president, Limelight Networks, Inc. “We are pleased that through our collaboration with Adobe on this project, we have first-mover advantage in helping our customers create brilliant HTTP Dynamic Streaming experiences on a global basis.”
“Our close collaboration with Limelight during the pre-release of HTTP Dynamic Streaming has well positioned us to meet early demand by proving and demonstrating the technology to customers like DirecTV. With the upcoming release of Flash Player 10.1, customers will be able to enjoy all the benefits of the Adobe Flash Platform while also taking advantage of the proven, global HTTP infrastructure and software innovations of the Limelight Networks content delivery service,” said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager, Digital Imaging and Rich Media Solutions at Adobe. “The Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) in Adobe Flash Media Server remains the leading protocol of choice delivering video on the Web. However, HTTP Dynamic Streaming complements RTMP and provides additional streaming functionality such as adaptive bit rate technology and intelligent content caching.”
Limelight DELIVER support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming is expected during Q2 2010.
Tags: Adaptive Bit Rate, Adobe, Dynamic Streaming, Flash Media Server, HTTP, Limelight Networks, RTMP, streaming, technology, Video, web
Posted by Derrick on February 16, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Enciris Technologies will be at Embedded World 2010 in Nuremburg, Germany, March 2nd to 4th. They will be demonstrating their true HD video capture and compression hardware for embedded applications.
Enciris Technologies is a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance video processing hardware for OEMs, system integrators, embedded systems, and professional users. They provide solutions for customers aiming to add affordable HD video compression, streaming, and storage to their products or services.
Specialized in high definition video processing, Enciris Technologies has developed its own HDTV compression and decompression technology that complies with widely used standards such as VC-1/WMV-HD/SMPTE-421M and H.264.
Posted by Derrick on December 22, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
As digital video and audio grow into a preferred communications media on campuses across the world, Wowza Media Systems, the media server software company, announced that more than 500 universities and colleges on four continents are using Wowza Media Server technology to deliver live, on demand and interactive content to students and faculty on multiple players and devices, including Flash and iPhone.
The collegiate market is among the most aggressive adopters of streaming media technology solutions as the modern campus expands beyond the traditional four walls of classrooms, labs and lecture halls and the Internet is an increasingly inseparable component of learning curriculum. According to Reuters, the online education sector grew 13 percent last year and had been growing at about 20 percent in previous years.
“Universities are discovering that lecture capture is a competitive advantage and of great benefit to ‘millennial’ learners, who are accustomed to convenience and to on-demand access to myriad content sources,” said Alan Greenberg, Senior Analyst & Partner at Wainhouse Research in his recent report The Distance Education and e-Learning Landscape Volume 2: Videoconferencing, Streaming and Capture Systems for Learning . “The beauty of streaming and lecture capture today is that they are more affordable than ever before.”
In addition to powering streaming in hundreds of institutions of higher learning across the Americas, Europe and Asia, Wowza now holds 39 percent share of the collegiate market on the Australian continent. In one deployment, the University of New South Wales in Sydney found the Wowza servers to be much more cost effective and easier to maintain than its separate legacy QuickTime and Windows streaming servers, which the university is now planning to retire.
“With Wowza Media Server 2 we are able to consolidate our media resources onto a single platform, while also opening the door to new campus IPTV and iPhone streaming capabilities for our UNSWTV and lecture recording services,” said Patrick Stoddart, Manager of Web and Innovation at the University of New South Wales. “The multi-client reach and flexibility of the Wowza server has made it an essential technology component underpinning our online media strategy.”
Many other universities are leveraging the Wowza Media Server’s iPhone and IPTV streaming capabilities to expand enrollment and make courses and other content such as athletics widely available outside of a brick and mortar environment. The University of Sussex in Britain, a leading research university rated in the top five percent of all universities worldwide by the 2009 Times Higher Education University World Rankings, has deployed Wowza media servers to enhance learning options for its more than 10,000 students.
“Our first deployment of the Wowza streaming technology was instrumental in powering our Live TV Production course last year,” said Dr. Phil Watten, Media Technology Manager for the School of Informatics, University of Sussex. “That was an ideal proving ground for Wowza and we have since begun to roll it out across a number of other university courses to deliver televised lectures to Flash desktop players and soon to unify our iPhone delivery.”
“Wowza is focused on helping educators make learning more accessible and affordable by using online video content,” said Dave Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-Founder, Wowza Media Systems. “Performance and extensibility with solutions like Wowza are especially valuable in the collegiate setting where the appetite for streaming media across multiple player platforms continues to outpace the level of available IT personnel and technology resources.”
Wowza Media Server was named Best Server Hardware/Software in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards in 2008 and 2009, and received the 2009 Best Innovation award for Wowza Media Server 2 which extends this proven platform beyond Flash with multi-protocol streaming to the iPhone/iPod touch and other mobile devices, the Silverlight player, QuickTime, and IPTV set-top boxes.
Tags: capture, content, flash, interactive, iPhone, lecture, live, media, multiple, on-demand, platforms, Server, streaming, technology, Wowza, Wowza Media Server
Posted by Derrick on November 4, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
BlackArrow, a leading worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, announced that its video-on-demand (VOD) ad insertion platform has gone live in Jacksonville, Florida with Comcast Corporation, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. Comcast has chosen BlackArrow’s Advanced Advertising System to lead its ad insertion technology for its On Demand programming.
BlackArrow’s Advanced Advertising System gives programmers and cable operators a real-time, multiplatform campaign management and decision system for offering more timely and relevant ads in their On Demand sessions. Traditionally, advertising campaigns in video-on-demand content have had limited effectiveness due to the static nature of the ads being encoded directly into the VOD stream. In the Jacksonville market, Comcast is inserting standard 15- and 30-second promotional spots as well as newly introduced 20-second spots designed to drive tune-in for upcoming shows and specials on PBS KIDS Sprout and FEARnet in a dynamic environment.
Diana Kerekes, vice president of Video Content for Comcast, said, “The ability to update VOD advertising will help us offer feature parity with traditional linear and Internet-based advertising systems. We’re pleased to be working with a technology leader like BlackArrow as we look for ways to offer our programming partners expanded opportunities to monetize their content offerings.”
“Comcast has led the industry in creating new opportunities to reach consumers in the on-demand marketplace, and we’re excited to be working with them,” said Dean Denhart, chief executive officer, BlackArrow. “By combining BlackArrow’s expertise in advanced VOD advertising platforms with Comcast’s VOD leadership, we hope to expand the business model significantly for on-demand advertising.”
Tags: ad, Advanced, Advertising, BlackArrow, Comcast, content, insertion, on-demand, System, technology, Video, VoD
