Video Breakthroughs
242.6K views | +0 today
Follow
Video Breakthroughs
Monitoring innovations in post-production, head-end, streaming, OTT, second-screen, UHDTV, multiscreen strategies & tools
Curated by Nicolas Weil
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Broadcast your point of view with Livestream's new Google Glass app

Broadcast your point of view with Livestream's new Google Glass app | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

NAB 2014 wouldn't be the same without Livestream, one of the internet's most popular broadcasting services, introducing new hardware or software. As such, Livestream has just announced another way for users to share video on its site: an application for Google Glass. Obviously, Livestream isn't the first to bring this feature to the wearable set, since you can already use the search giant's own Hangouts app to broadcast what you're seeing.

Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight, April 9, 2014 3:55 AM

 As such, Livestream has just announced another way for users to share video on its site: an application for Google Glass. 

Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

nanoStream Live Video Encoder Browser Plugins: The Easiest and Fastest Way to Create High Quality Internet Video Streaming

nanoStream Live Video Encoder Browser Plugins: The Easiest and Fastest Way to Create High Quality Internet Video Streaming | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

nanoStream Web Plugin is a browser based live video capture and encoding software for streaming live video and audio to internet based media servers and other network clients. nanoStream is compatible to latest generation internet video encoding standards and supports Flash and iPod compatible H.264 encoding modes, from low resolution mobile video up to Full HD highest quality video streaming.


Several Extensions are available, for 3d stereoscopic video encoding and streaming from multiple camera views, and additional coding formats; WindowsMedia, MPEG-2 and VP8.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

New in Flash Player 11: Encoding Live Video to H.264/AVC

New in Flash Player 11: Encoding Live Video to H.264/AVC | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

The latest version of Flash Player (v.11.0) includes some exciting new features, including performance upgrades such as native 64-bit support, and asynchronous bitmap decoding. Perhaps most newsworthy though, is Flash Player’s new capability to encode live video streams to the H.264/AVC standard. This new feature will allow developers to create real-time, high-quality, live video streaming applications for chat, conferencing, and live event broadcasting.

 

The following article demonstrates how to take advantage of Flash Player 11.0′s new H.264 encoding capabilities within a video streaming application built using Flash Builder 4.5.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

nanocosmos nanoStream Live Video Encoder supports VP8 and 3D stereoscopic live encoding

nanocosmos nanoStream Live Video Encoder supports VP8 and 3D stereoscopic live encoding | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

nanoStream Live Video Encoder

is a video capture and encoding software for streaming live video and audio to internet based media servers and other network clients. nanoStream is compatible to latest generation internet video encoding standards and supports Flash and iPod compatible H.264 encoding modes, from low resolution mobile video up to Full HD highest quality video streaming.

 

Several Extensions are available, for 3d stereoscopic video encoding and streaming from multiple camera views, and additional coding formats; WindowsMedia, MPEG-2 and VP8.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Grass Valley MediaFUSE replaces advertisements in the live stream

Grass Valley MediaFUSE replaces advertisements in the live stream | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Grass Valley demonstrates how easy it is to take any live program and automatically format it for the web and mobile computing devices, complete with the ability to replace advertisements in the live stream, with its turnkey MediaFUSE Live automated content repurposing and multi-distribution system.

 

This plug-and-play streaming solution offers dynamic live streaming in the Flash, HLS-5, and Windows Media formats. This allows TV broadcasters and all types of multi-platform content providers to automatically convert linear content and stream it live to address 95% of the multimedia consumption devices (such as the Apple iPad, iPhone, and Google Android) in use today.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 3 : WebM Streaming

Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 3 : WebM Streaming | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

WebM is surely one of the hotest streaming topics right now, because WebM is one of the two final HTML5 video standards with H.264. When Google bought On2 in 2009 and open-sourced its latest VP8 codec one year later, two promises were made : providing a codec which quality can compete with H.264 , and providing it in a royalty-free way. On the quality point, the general opinion is that the VP8 codec is slightly less performing than H.264– but it can be an acceptable trade-off regarding the royalties point.

 

Precisely, the royalty-free point is the one which raises the more questions now, as MPEG-LA is said to have a lineup of 12 patent owners ready to claim their rights on intellectual property, as VP8 would use compression techniques taken from H.264. Seeing their fight against Google being a success would cause a major setback in HTML5 standardization efforts around open source solutions – WebM then being another coding technology subject to royalties after H.264. Nevertheless, the patent war has not started yet and WebM is still a good alternative to H.264, on the paper. And that’s why we are curious to know how we can implement it in our existing or upcoming workflows.

 

So let’s walk through the different steps of the WebM streaming workflow !

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Open Broadcast Encoder : open source advanced broadcast encoding

Open Broadcast Encoder : open source advanced broadcast encoding | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Redefining the way you encode VoD and Realtime content.

Designed from the ground-up to be flexible and scalable to handle all your VoD and Realtime (in development) needs. Compliant with all broadcast industry standards and practices.
Adaptable to fit a wide range of use-cases using only commodity hardware.

Fully open source. Powered by the x264 AVC encoder.

Open Broadcast Encoder Realtime 0.1 Alpha and Open Broadcast Encoder VoD 0.21 Beta available for testing :
http://code.google.com/p/open-broadcast-encoder/

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Sorenson Media Partners with Kulabyte to Create the Squeeze Live Cloud Encoding Platform

Sorenson Media Partners with Kulabyte to Create the Squeeze Live Cloud Encoding Platform | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

After encoding.com for on-demand content, maybe a new cloud offer than can disrupt the live streaming market by taking out the multi-screen production constaints...

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Presentation : Choosing an Enterprise Encoder by Jan Ozer

SnoiD's comment September 11, 2012 2:20 PM
Intéressant j'suis un peu étonné sur la partie qualité et le terme "not commercially relevant" ça me semble tellement variable en fonction de la cible client.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Onlinelib offers HLS SDK for Flash/AIR and announces the VCS HLS Hardware Stream analyzer (up 100 streams)

Onlinelib offers HLS SDK for Flash/AIR and announces the VCS HLS Hardware Stream analyzer (up 100 streams) | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

HLS is available on iOS and Mac OSX Quicktime Player only. Onlinelib brings HLS to millions of devices with help from Adobe Flash Player. The HLS Streaming Solutions from Onlinelb are ready-to-go solutions :

- HLS Player for Adobe Strobe Mediaplayback

- HLS SDK for Developers

- VCS HLS Hardware Analyzer

- HLS Encoder for OSX

- VCS Live HLS Encoder

 

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

H.264/AVC Superior DCI 4K Support and 3D Full HD Video Processing Now in the Evatronix JPEG 2000 Encoder

H.264/AVC Superior DCI 4K Support and 3D Full HD Video Processing Now in the Evatronix JPEG 2000 Encoder | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it
The ultra-high performance JPEG2000-4K encoder IP from Evatronix secures 24p image processing for DCI 4K resolution or 2 channels of simultaneous, independent stereoscopic Full HD video.
No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Octoshape Enhances Ecrin's IP Video Contribution and Distribution Systems

Octoshape Enhances Ecrin's IP Video Contribution and Distribution Systems | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Octoshape announced today its integration with Ecrin Video & Broadcast's video contribution and distribution systems. The integration of these technologies facilitates point-to-point and point-to-multipoint contribution and playout over the Internet as well as mass consumer distribution. French-based Ecrin supplies H.264 encoding systems that deliver content for broadcasters, IPTV, webTV and mobileTV.

 

Octoshape's Infinite Uplink embedded technology replaces traditional satellite and video fiber systems with resilient video contribution over the Internet, drastically reducing the cost associated with distribution and increasing deployment flexibility. This functionality, combined with Ecrin's LiveStream Series solution set, opens up new markets traditionally served only by large satellite delivery providers.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

IBC: Electra 9000 enables unified multi-screen headends

IBC: Electra 9000 enables unified multi-screen headends | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

The new Electra 9000 encoder from Harmonic Inc, which was launched today at IBC, will help service providers build the unified video headends they need to scale multi-screen TV offers cost-effectively, thanks to the combination of high-end broadcast encoder capabilities and web and mobile video processing. The new platform can be seen at IBC and first customer shipments are expected in Q1 2012.

 

Harmonic describes the Electra 9000 as the world’s first multi-codec, multi-format video encoder for broadcast, satellite, telco and cable operators that simultaneously supports broadcast, mobile and web formats in a 1-RU chassis. Each module supports flexible combinations of up to four SD/HD inputs, with up to eight broadcast output profiles and 32 multi-screen aligned output profiles.

 

It can be combined with the company’s ProMedia Package carrier-grade adaptive streaming preparation system and ProMedia Origin HTTP and RTMP streaming video server to encapsulate and deliver video to a variety of target ecosystems. There is support for Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Adobe RTMP and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 1 : Hardware-accelerated Encoding

Streaming Video Technologies Panorama, part 1 : Hardware-accelerated Encoding | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Maybe some of you remember the Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media which came on market in 2005 as a FPGA loaded PCI board. It was a 10K$ investment but it could seriously boost your encoder performances and it was a transparent solution for all encoders integrating Windows Media SDK. That was maybe the only real reliable option to do HD encoding decently at that time. More confidential were the Ambric cards for accelerating MainConcept H.264 and MPEG-2 SDK, which were found to be working with Inlet Armada transcoding farm.

Since these days, Tarari boards vanished, Windows Media encoding has been somehow outshined by H.264 and CPU performances have made great jumps, but the needs for hardware accelerated encoding solutions is still there, mainly because :
- H.264 encoding is also hungrily crunching CPU cycles
- screen types to feed have exploded with mobile, tablets, connected TVs and all other OTT devices
- adaptive streaming requires far more versions of the same file that previously mono-bitrate encodings
- available rackspace is not endless and it’s not convenient to manage hundreds of encoding nodes
- new formats like 3D and SVC are demanding strong encoding power
- you like to play with cool high-end encoders and you have strong convincing skills when it comes to make your boss buy expen$ive hardware


So let’s take a look at the different options available on the market now !

No comment yet.
Scooped by Nicolas Weil
Scoop.it!

Media Excel and Verimatrix Help Accelerate and Secure Premium OTT Service Delivery

Media Excel and Verimatrix Help Accelerate and Secure Premium OTT Service Delivery | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it

Media Excel and Verimatrix bring complementary technologies and expertise areas to address the infrastructure requirements for successful premium video service delivery. Media Excel offers encoder products with an innovative software and hardware design that leverages sophisticated video processing capabilities to deliver an n-Screen multi-format IP video for multi-channel live broadcasting and on-demand applications. Verimatrix integrates its VCAS for Internet TV components within the workflow to secure the keys associated with encrypted content streams and supports a wide variety of authenticated client device delivery options using its ViewRight Web technology.

More info on Media Excel HERO nS encoder here : http://www.mediaexcel.com/products/fileon-demand/hero-ns

No comment yet.